BUILDING CAPACITY IN RURAL AND UNDERSERVED COMMUNITIES: CTR. COMM. HEALTH DEVE.

描述(由申请人提供)： 这项提议是为了继续德克萨斯农工大学农村公共卫生学院社区卫生发展中心(CCHD)的工作，让社区和社区合作伙伴参与研究、评估、培训和传播活动，旨在建设社区改善健康和减少健康差距的能力。该中心的使命是与社区和其他合作伙伴合作，翻译、评估和传播有效的个人、组织、社区和区域战略，以解决农村和服务不足人口中与健康有关的关键问题。该中心计划在2009-2014年开展的活动将加强农村公共卫生学院和德克萨斯州农工系统其他部门的研究能力，并扩大健康促进和疾病预防研究活动和项目。预期成果包括通过培训和研究经验加强预防研究和公共卫生工作人员；更广泛地传播社区卫生发展模式；扩大社区干预措施。社区卫生发展中心的研究议程围绕三大主题安排：(1)影响社区成员获得促进健康和健康行为所需资源和服务的因素；(2)利用社区卫生发展作为解决社区卫生问题和传播预防知识的一种方法；(3)找出影响我们向其他农村和未得到充分服务的社区传播社区卫生发展进程和预防知识能力的背景因素。拟议的核心研究项目涉及中心三大主题中的第一个主题，重点是获得健康、负担得起的食物和营养安全。第二和第三个主题将通过研究这一倡议所依据的社区卫生发展进程来解决。相关性(见说明)：社区卫生发展中心的研究将通过提高我们对影响健康的社区因素的理解和改进社区卫生发展方法来建设社区改善人口健康的能力，从而为公共卫生领域做出贡献。以缩小农村和服务不足人口的健康差距为重点，由社区推动的研究议程将有助于制定在地方一级可持续的适当、相关的干预措施。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This proposal is to continue the work of the Center for Community Health Development (CCHD) at the Texas A&M Health Science Center School of Rural Public Health in engaging the community and community partners in research, evaluation, training, and dissemination activities aimed to build community capacity for health improvement and reduce health disparities. The mission of the Center is to work collaboratively with communities and other partners to translate, evaluate, and disseminate effective individual, organizational, community and regional strategies for addressing critical health-related issues in rural and underserved populations. The Center's activities planned for 2009-2014 will strengthen research capacity of the School of Rural Public Health and other components of the Texas A&M System and expand of health promotion and disease prevention research activities and projects. Anticipated outcomes include strengthening the prevention research and public health workforce through training and research experience; broader dissemination of a community health development model; and expanded community interventions. The research agenda of the CCHD is organized around three broad themes: (1) factors affecting community members' access to resources and services necessary to promote health and healthy behavior; (2) the use of community health development as one approach to addressing community health issues and the dissemination of prevention knowledge; and (3) identifying contextual factors that affect our ability to disseminate community health development processes and prevention knowledge to other rural and underserved communities. The proposed core research project addresses the first of the Center's three broad themes with its focus on access to healthy affordable food and nutritional security. The second and third themes will be addressed through the study of the community health development process upon which this initiative is based. RELEVANCE (See instructions): The Center for Community Health Development's research will contribute to the field of public health by improving our understanding of community factors affecting health and refinement of the community health development approach to building community capacity for population health improvement. Focusing on the reduction of health disparities for rural and underserved populations, a community-driven research agenda will assist in development of appropriate, relevant interventions sustainable at the local level.