PROMOTING HEALTH AND PREVENTING DISEASE IN DISADVANTAGED URBAN NEIGHBORHOODS

描述(由申请人提供)： CWRU健康社区预防研究中心(PRCHN)的使命是促进城市社区内的伙伴关系，以制定、测试和传播有效的战略和干预措施，以预防和减轻慢性病的负担。具体地说，PRCHN的目标是与社区居民和领导人以及为社区服务的社区组织合作，解决重大的环境和生活方式问题，这些问题不仅与慢性病(如哮喘、肥胖症、心脏病、糖尿病、癌症)密切相关，而且受到社区自身条件和资源的影响。我们的多学科学术-社区团队包括经验丰富的社区研究人员、当地卫生委员会和其他卫生和社区组织、社区领导人和社区居民。我们将共同实现以下目标：(1)与我们的社区顾问网络(Noca)一起，制定一套程序来指导决策、冲突解决和设定优先事项的过程；(2)正式启动参与性进程，通过基于社区的会议、学术社区务虚会、专题工作组和Noca为PRCHN制定1、3和5年的研究议程；(3)与社区合作伙伴开展高质量、协作的预防研究，以改善当地居民的健康，并向更广泛的研究社区提供信息；(4)通过培训、辅导、研讨会和试点项目资助，在我们的教职员工、学生和社区合作伙伴中促进基于社区的预防研究；(5)通过向我们的社区合作伙伴提供研究方法和注重评估的技术援助，建设社区开展和参与预防和促进健康研究的能力；(6)将我们的中心建立为公众获取当地领先健康指标数据的综合资源，并作为预防研究结果的传播中心；以及(7)对PRCHN进行持续、严格的评估，以确保按时和按预算实现该中心的目标，并为国家对PRC的评估做出贡献。核心研究项目源于我们与社区的合作，以审查普遍存在的粮食获取和安全不足的问题。Elevance(见说明)：PRCHN将提供一个基础设施，以加强多学科教员和我们社区合作伙伴之间的合作，利用所有独特的视角和专业知识进行预防研究，开发和测试创新的干预措施、途径和方法，以满足我们社区的卫生需求。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The mission of the CWRU Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods (PRCHN) is to foster partnerships within urban neighborhoods in order to develop, test, and disseminate effective strategies and interventions to prevent and reduce the burden of chronic disease. Specifically, the goal of the PRCHN is to partner with neighborhood residents and leaders, and the community organizations that serve the neighborhoods, to address significant environmental and lifestyle issues that are not only strongly linked to chronic disease (e.g., asthma, obesity, heart disease, diabetes, cancer), but are influenced by the conditions and resources of the neighborhood itself. Our multidisciplinary academic-community team includes experienced community-based researchers, local boards of health and other health and community organizations, neighborhood leaders, and community residents. Together, we will accomplish the following goals: (1) With our Network of Community Advisors (NOCA), develop a set of procedures to guide the processes of decision making, conflict resolution, and setting priorities; (2) Formalize and launch the participatory process for setting a 1, 3 and 5-year research agenda for the PRCHN through neighborhood-based meetings, academic-community retreats, topic-specific working groups, and NOCA; (3) Conduct high-quality, collaborative prevention research with community partners to improve the health of local residents and inform the broader research community; (4) Foster community-based prevention research among our faculty, students and community partners through training, mentoring, workshops, and pilot project funding; (5) Build community capacity for conducting and engaging in prevention and health promotion research by providing research methods and evaluation-focused technical assistance to our community partners; (6) Establish our Center as a comprehensive resource for public access to local data on leading health indicators and as dissemination center for prevention research findings; and, (7) Conduct an ongoing, rigorous evaluation of the PRCHN, to ensure that Center's goals are achieved on time and on budget and to contribute to the national evaluation of PRCs. The Core Research Project emerged from our collaborations with neighborhoods to examine the prevalent issue of poor food access and security. ELEVANCE (See instructions): 'he PRCHN will provide an infrastructure to enhance collaboration among a multidisciplinary faculty and our community partners in a way that draws upon all of the unique perspectives and expertise to conduct prevention research, develop and test innovative interventions, approaches and methods to address the health needs of our community.