Bronx Center to Reduce & Eliminate Health Disparities

描述(由申请者提供)：阿尔伯特·爱因斯坦医学院(AECOM)建议建立一个社区外联、健康差距研究和培训(项目出口)伙伴关系英才中心，名为减少和消除种族和种族健康差距布朗克斯中心(BxCREED)。该建议源于医学院通过其社区与合作健康研究所和拉美裔英才中心建立学术和社区合作伙伴关系的举措，并通过其与赫伯特·H·莱曼学院-纽约大学(一家拉美裔服务机构)、卫生部队-社区预防卫生研究所(一家以社区为基础的同行教育组织)、临床主任网络和AECOM‘S附属教学医院、蒙特菲奥里和雅各比医学中心的长期关系。BxCREED的总体使命是通过促进、协调和整合医学院的健康差距研究；社区推广、信息传播和合作；对卫生专业人员、社区成员、政策制定者和公职人员的健康差距教育；培训本科生、研究生和博士后水平的调查人员；以及加强和扩大布朗克斯现有的学术与社区伙伴关系，减少和消除布朗克斯区、纽约市和全国的种族和种族健康差距。BxCREED的最初重点将是初级、二级和三级预防和治疗，这些疾病与布朗克斯和全国非裔美国人和拉美裔美国人过度发病率和死亡率的最大来源--心脑血管疾病、糖尿病及其并发症--相关。因为非洲裔美国人和拉美裔人口遭受导致死亡和残疾的多种危险因素(即糖尿病、高血压、血脂异常、肥胖、吸烟以及低教育和社会经济地位等)的比率更高。BxCREED将强调综合的、文化上和语言上适当的干预措施，利用卫生部队的S在培训和支持非专业同辈教育者进行研究和干预方面的专业知识。BxCREED将以社会生态学和家庭系统理论以及生物心理社会模型为指导。具体目标将包括在雷曼学院建立一个新的布朗克斯公共卫生硕士学位项目；通过AECOM临床研究培训计划设立AECOM健康差异学院发展奖学金，最终获得临床研究方法方面的博士后硕士学位；通过CDN进行健康差异网络广播；以及与AECOM拉美裔卓越中心和糖尿病研究与培训中心以及CDC资助的Bronx REACH 2010密切合作。BxCREED将建立行政、研究和试点研究、培训、社区推广和信息传播、健康差距教育和共享资源核心。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Albert Einstein College of Medicine (AECOM) proposes to establish a Center of Excellence in Partnerships for Community Outreach, Research on Health Disparities and Training (PROJECT EXPORT) to be called the Bronx Center to Reduce and Eliminate Ethnic and Racial Health Disparities (BxCREED). The proposal originates in the College of Medicine's initiatives in building academic-community partnerships through its Institute for Community and Collaborative Health and Hispanic Center of Excellence and through its long-standing relationships with Herbert H. Lehman College-CUNY (a Hispanic-Serving Institution), Health Force--Community Preventive Health Institute (a community-based peer education organization), the Clinical Directors Network (CDN), and AECOM' s affiliated teaching hospitals, Montefiore and Jacobi Medical Centers. The overall mission of BxCREED is to reduce and eliminate ethnic and racial health disparities in the Bronx, New York City, and the nation through promotion, coordination, and integration of health disparities research at the College of Medicine; community outreach, information dissemination, and collaboration; health disparities education for health professionals, community members, policy-makers and public officials; training of investigators at the undergraduate, graduate, and post-doctoral levels; and strengthening and expanding existing academic-community partnerships in the Bronx. The initial focus of BxCREED will be the primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention and treatment of the cluster of conditions associated with the greatest source of excess morbidity and mortality among African-Americans and Latinos in the Bronx and the nation--cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, diabetes, and their complications. Because African-American and Latino populations suffer higher rates of the multiple risk factors that lead to death and disability (i.e., diabetes, hypertension, dyslipidemias, obesity, smoking, and low educational and socioeconomic status, etc.) BxCREED will emphasize comprehensive, culturally- and linguistically-appropriate interventions that draw upon Health Force' s expertise in training and supporting lay peer educators in research and intervention. BxCREED will be guided by social ecology and family systems theories and the biopsychosocial model. Specific Aims will include the establishment of a new Bronx consortium Masters in Public Health degree program at Lehman College; an AECOM Health Disparities Faculty Development Fellowship culminating in a post-doctoral Masters degree in Clinical Research Methods through the AECOM Clinical Research Training Program; health disparities webcasts through CDN; and close collaboration with the AECOM Hispanic Center of Excellence and Diabetes Research and Training Center and the CDC-funded Bronx REACH 2010. BxCREED will establish Administrative, Research and Pilot Study, Training, Community Outreach and Information Dissemination, Health Disparities Education, and Shared Resources Cores.