PARTNERS IN HEALTH AND HOUSING PREVENTION RESEARCH CENTER

描述（由申请人提供）：波士顿大学公共卫生学院（BUSPH）健康与住房预防研究中心（PHH-PRC）的使命是改善公共住房居民的健康和福祉。为此，波士顿公共卫生中心与波士顿住房管理局（BHA）、波士顿公共卫生委员会（BPHC）和社区健康促进委员会（CCHP）合作，后者是一个以社区为基础的公共住房居民和倡导者组织。这一伙伴关系为所有24个BHA家庭发展项目培训了被称为居民健康倡导者的公共住房居民。PHH-PRC的目标是：1)建立、改善和扩大PHH-PRC基础设施的能力，以支持PHH-PRC的活动；2)评估公共房屋居民的公共健康问题和需要；3)设计及执行公共房屋的预防研究；4)识别和教育公共住房居民中的社区领导人如何改善居民的健康；5)为公共卫生专业学生在波士顿公共住房开发项目中创造实践机会；(6)扩大市区公共卫生中心、市区公共卫生管理局和市区公共卫生中心之间的有效伙伴关系，以解决公屋居民的公共卫生需要；7)通过整合伙伴机构正在进行的项目，为公共住房居民维持成功的预防项目；8)沟通和传播PHH- PRC调查结果；9)记录PHH-PRC的成功，确定需要改进的领域，并修改目标以优化实现PHH-PRC目标和国家PRC目标的潜力。PHH-PRC合作伙伴共同开发所有研究项目。拟议的PHH-PRC核心研究项目将审查一项计划的有效性，该计划协助公共住房居民进入疾病治疗和健康促进计划。公共住房居民的健康状况低于一般人口，而且更有可能是种族、族裔和社会经济少数群体的成员。因此，为中华人民共和国卫生保健计划提议的活动涉及提高健康状况和减少健康差距的2010年健康人目标。相关性（见说明）：卫生和住房预防合作伙伴研究中心力求改善公共住房居民的健康和福祉。我们已经培训了公共住房居民成为居民健康倡导者（RHAs），我们正在建议研究RHAs是否可以显著提高公共住房居民对正在进行的疾病预防和健康促进计划的参与。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The mission of the Partners in Health and Housing Prevention Research Center (PHH-PRC) at Boston University School of Public Health (BUSPH) is to improve the health and well being of public housing residents. To accomplish this, BUSPH has partnered with the Boston Housing Authority (BHA), the Boston Public Health Commission (BPHC) and the Community Committee for Health Promotion (CCHP), a community-based organization of public housing residents and advocates. This partnership has trained public housing residents, known as Resident Health Advocates (RHAs), in all 24 BHA family developments. The goals of the PHH-PRC are: 1) to build, improve and expand the capacity of the PHH-PRC infrastructure to support PHH-PRC activities; 2) to assess the public health concerns and needs of public housing residents; 3) to design and perform prevention research in the public housing setting; 4) to identify and educate community leaders among residents of public housing about ways to improve the health of residents; 5) to create practice opportunities in Boston public housing developments for public health students; 6) to expand an effective partnership among BUSPH,-BHA and BPHC to address the public health needs of public housing residents; 7) to sustain successful prevention programs for public housing residents through integration into ongoing programs of partner agencies; 8) to communicate and disseminate PHH- PRC findings; and 9) to document PHH-PRC successes, identify areas where improvement is needed, and revise objectives to optimize potential for realizing PHH-PRC goals and National PRC Goals. The PHH-PRC partners work together to develop all research projects. The proposed PHH-PRC Core Research project will examine the effectiveness of a program of RHA-assisted navigation of public housing residents into disease treatment and health promotion programs. Public housing residents have lower health status than the general population and are also more likely to be members of racial, ethnic and socioeconomic minorities. Thus, the activities proposed for the PHH-PRC address the Healthy People 2010 goals of increasing health status and of reducing health disparities. RELEVANCE (See instructions): The Partners in Health and Housing Prevention Research Center seeks to improve the health and well-being of public housing residents. We have trained public housing residents to be Resident Health Advocates (RHAs) and we are proposing to study whether RHAs can significantly increase the participation of public housing residents in ongoing disease prevention and health promotion programs.