UCLA Center for Minority Health Disparities

描述（由申请人提供）：加州大学洛杉矶分校少数民族健康差异研究、教育、培训和战略沟通中心（CRETSCMHD）将以确保减少和消除种族和少数民族人口的健康差异为唯一优先事项。加州大学洛杉矶分校中心的议程结构是这样的：通过其每个核心整合三个主题，这三个主题对于有效消除健康方面的差距至关重要：研究、教育和培训以及沟通和传播。该中心的活动将通过行政核心、研究核心（由共享资源、研究核心和试点模块组成）以及教育、培训和公共政策核心（由少数民族健康和健康差距教育、培训和社区外展和信息传播核心组成）进行协调。行政核心将对所有核心活动提供组织领导、协调和审查，并鼓励大学内部和更广泛的洛杉矶社区的相互关系和伙伴关系。由定性核心、定量核心和情境社区核心组成的共享资源核心将成为该中心的研究骨干。也正是在这里，研究少数民族健康的理论、方法和背景方法将被重新审视和完善。试点模块和研究核心与共享资源核心合作，将审查提供者行为的作用以及传统医学在少数群体保健中的使用情况。培训和少数民族健康教育核心将致力于增加种族/少数民族学生和教师在研究中的存在和参与，重点是通过中心的教育、指导和研究机会，消除从生命/物理科学到世界艺术和文化等广泛的校园单位的少数民族健康差距。社区核心将作为整个中心的支柱，为中心的研究和方向提供信息，通过研究语言在教育、传播和保健方面的重要性，对传播过程进行审查。部分社区核心目标将通过中心组织的活动来实现，在这些活动中，社区领导人和中心成员将参与讨论社区需求。CRETSCMHD将由教师、社区领袖、少数民族媒体、地方基金会和卫生专业人员组成。中心吸引了来自不同学科和组织的成员，目的是为多种观点创建一个论坛。该中心的议程是在民族/种族多样性丰富的社区背景下，集体和全面地努力减少和消除少数民族的健康差距。然而，同样是在这个社区，有大量的种族/族裔少数群体无法获得保健服务，他们在保健不平等的负担中承担着不公平的份额。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The UCLA Center for Research, Education, Training, and Strategic Communication on Minority Health Disparities (CRETSCMHD) will be guided by the sole priority of ensuring the reduction and elimination of health disparities in racial and ethnic minority populations. The UCLA Center's agenda is structured such that integrated through each of its Cores are three themes vital to effectively eliminate disparities in health: research, education and training, and communication and dissemination. Activities at the Center will be coordinated through the Administrative Core, Research Cores (made up of the Shared Resources, Research Cores and a Pilot Module), and the Education, Training, and Public Policy Cores (made up of the Minority Health and Health Disparity Education, Training, and Community Outreach and Information Dissemination Cores). The Administrative Core will provide the organizational leadership, coordination and review of all Core activities, and encourage inter-relationships and partnerships within the University and with the broader Los Angeles community. The Shared Resources Cores, composed of the Qualitative, Quantitative, and Communities-In-Context Cores, will function as the research backbone for the Center. It is also here that the theoretical, methodological, and contextual approaches to studying minority health will be revisited and refined. The Pilot Module and Research Core, working in collaboration with the Shared Resources Core, will examine the role of provider behavior as well as the use of traditional medicine in minority health. The Training and Minority Health Education Cores will work to increase the presence and involvement of racial/ethnic minority students and faculty in research focused on eliminating minority health disparities from a wide range of campus units such as the life/physical sciences to World Arts and Culture through education, mentorship, and research opportunities at the Center. The Community Core will serve as the backbone for the entire Center, informing the research and direction of the Center, undertaking the examination of the dissemination process through studying the importance of language in the education, dissemination and health care encounters. Part of the Community Core aims will be achieved through Center-organized events, where community leaders as well as Center members will engage in discussion of community needs. CRETSCMHD will be composed of a diverse group of faculty, community leaders, the minority media, local foundations and health professionals. It is with the intention of creating a forum for multiple perspectives that the Center has drawn members from disparate disciplines and organizations. The Center's agenda is a collective and comprehensive effort in the reduction and elimination of minority health disparities in the context of a community rich in ethnic/racial diversity. However this same community is the site of a large number of those racial/ethnic minorities being without access to care and who bear an unfair share of the burden of health inequalities.