Science and Community: Ending Obesity Improving Health

科学与社区：结束肥胖改善健康

• 批准号: 7799589
• 负责人: Rebecca Elizabeth Lee
• 金额: $ 3万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-01-18 至 2012-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7799589
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DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Obesity has been recognized as an epidemic, placing a huge burden on the health of the public and the national economy. National data suggest that the trend continues, despite broad-based public health messages to reduce obesity, and populations of color are particularly vulnerable. Although most cases of obesity are attributed to lifestyle habits, traditional behavior change programs have had little sustainability, in part attributable to ecologic factors external to the individual, grounded in environment, policy, cultural or social origins. Obesity occurs as part of a complex system representing failures at multiple levels of the ecologic milieu; thus, simply enrolling the obese in weight loss programs is insufficient for sustainable weight loss. Partnerships between scientists and communities to accommodate and include community ecologic factors may offer greater success and sustainability compared to traditional, individually-focused programs. This project aims to capitalize on the unique opportunities presented in communities in the City of Houston to develop a partnership to promote sustainable obesity reduction via shared vision, community outreach and education with the final goal of developing a proposal for submission for NIH funding. Houston is an incredibly diverse, large population center with the uncomfortable distinction of being listed as one of America's Top 10 Fattest Cities for the last five years. Aims will be completed via numerous interactive meetings, workshops, symposia and conferences to establish an academic-community partnership, identify community-research priorities, and develop a long-term collaborative agenda, focusing on the problem of obesity across the lifespan with particular attention to children and women. The partnership will use the Texas Obesity Research Center (TORC) in the Department of Health and Human Performance at the University of Houston (UH) as a framework organization to support the partnership and agenda, and rely on longstanding community ties of community members to the TORC and the UH. It is expected that this project will provide a forum for the development of a community partnership structure that will support an eventual community based participatory research (CBPR) project and will facilitate culturally centered community partnership with a focus on addressing and eliminating health disparities. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Approximately 280,000 deaths and $117 billion in medical expenses are attributed to obesity and obesity-related conditions each year and there is no known sustainable solution. Engaging community members, employing local knowledge, and investing community members from the most vulnerable communities, in the process of research to tackle this health problem through CBPR is highly significant to public health.

描述(申请人提供)：肥胖已被认为是一种流行病，给公众的健康和国民经济带来了巨大的负担。国家数据表明，尽管有广泛的公共卫生信息来减少肥胖，但这一趋势仍在继续，而且有色人种尤其容易受到影响。尽管大多数肥胖病例都是由于生活方式习惯造成的，但传统的行为改变计划几乎没有可持续性，部分原因是环境、政策、文化或社会根源等个人外部的生态因素。肥胖是一个复杂系统的一部分，代表着生态环境的多个层面上的失败；因此，简单地让肥胖者参加减肥计划是不足以实现可持续的减肥的。科学家和社区之间的合作伙伴关系，以适应和包括社区生态因素，可能会提供更大的成功和可持续性比传统的，个人重点项目。该项目旨在利用休斯顿市社区提供的独特机会，通过共同的愿景、社区宣传和教育，发展合作伙伴关系，促进可持续的肥胖减少，最终目标是制定一份提交给NIH资金的提案。休斯顿是一个令人难以置信的多元化、庞大的人口中心，在过去五年中被列为美国十大最肥胖城市之一，这让人感到尴尬。将通过许多互动会议、讲习班、专题讨论会和会议来实现目标，以建立学术-社区伙伴关系，确定社区-研究优先事项，并制定长期合作议程，重点关注终生肥胖问题，特别关注儿童和妇女。该伙伴关系将使用休斯顿大学(UH)卫生与人类绩效系的德克萨斯肥胖研究中心(TORC)作为框架组织，以支持伙伴关系和议程，并依赖社区成员与TORC和UH的长期社区联系。预计该项目将为社区伙伴关系结构的发展提供一个论坛，该结构将支持最终的基于社区的参与性研究(CBPR)项目，并将促进以文化为中心的社区伙伴关系，重点是解决和消除健康差距。 与公共卫生有关：每年约有28万人死亡和1170亿美元的医疗费用可归因于肥胖和与肥胖相关的疾病，目前还没有已知的可持续解决方案。在通过CBPR解决这一健康问题的研究过程中，让社区成员参与，利用当地知识，并投资最脆弱社区的社区成员，对公共卫生非常重要。