Center for Rural Community Health Development

该提案是为了在德克萨斯A&M大学系统（TAMUS）农村公共卫生学院（SRPH）建立预防研究中心（PRC）。拟议的项目审查委员会的使命是与社区和其他伙伴合作，翻译、评估和传播有效的个人、组织、社区和区域战略，以解决农村和得不到充分服务的人口中的关键和与健康有关的问题。 该中心的建立将带来重要的产出，包括加强生殖健康研究所的研究能力-拥有工作人员、资源、技能和知识以及研究基础设施-并扩大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队伍;更广泛地传播社区卫生发展模式和扩大社区干预措施。CRCHD的研究议程围绕三大主题组织：（1）影响将现有预防知识转化、实施、评估和传播到农村和服务不足社区的因素;（2）影响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的因素;以及（3）影响我们向其他农村和服务不足社区传播社区卫生发展进程和预防知识的能力的背景因素。拟议的核心研究项目涉及的第一个问题是： 中心的三大主题，其重点是翻译和传播的临床和社区指南，糖尿病的预防和管理。第二和第三个主题将通过研究社区卫生发展进程来解决，而社区卫生发展进程正是这一倡议的基础。

This proposal is for establishment of a Prevention Research Center(PRC) at the Texas A&M University System(TAMUS) School of Rural Public Health (SRPH). The mission of the proposed PRC, the Center for Rural Community Health Development(CRCHD) is to ork collaboratively with communities and other partners, to translate, evaluate and disseminate effective individual, organizational, community and regional strategiesfor addressing critical and health-related issues in rural and underserved populations. The establishmentof the Center will lead to important outputs including strengthening the research capacity of SRPH--with staff, resources, skills and knowledge,and research infrastructure--and expanding prevention research activities and projects. Anticipated outcomes include strengthening the prevention research workforce through training and research experience; broader dissemination of the community health development model, and expanded community interventions. The research agenda for the CRCHD is organized around three broad themes: (1) factors influencing the translation, implementation, evaluation and dissemination of existing prevention knowledge to rural and underserved communities; (2) factors affecting community health development as one approach to the addressing community health issues and the dissemination of prevention knowledge; and (3) 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 the translation and dissemination of clinical and community guidelines for diabetes prevention and management. The second and third themes will be addressed through study of the community health development process upon which this initiative is based.