Improving Minority Healthcare through Dialogue and Dissemination of Information

描述（由申请人提供）：健康差距在非裔美国人和其他少数民族中普遍存在。该项目是根据美国国立卫生研究院下属的国家儿童健康和人类发展研究所提出的解决和消除少数群体之间保健差距的倡议制定的。塔拉迪加学院和落基山浸信会社区与该地区的一群非裔美国医生合作，建立了一个学术社区伙伴关系。这个试点项目申请的主要重点是解决落基山社区公民之间的健康差距。该项目的目标是：1)确定对非裔美国人获得医疗保健和医疗保健信息产生不利影响的最常见挑战；2)提供遗传因素和生活方式如何影响少数民族健康的信息，并收集数据，以帮助制定国家政策，消除卫生保健差距；3)确定卫生保健差距信息传播的最佳地点和方法。该项目将提供一个有组织的论坛，供公民与保健专业人员和教育工作者进行非正式和正式对话，讨论和收集有关健康风险因素的信息，如饮食不当、缺乏锻炼、推迟去看医生以及无法向医生提出适当的问题。这些目标将通过在学院和落基山浸信会教堂举行公开会议来实现，这些会议将把保健提供者和公民聚集在一起，进行对话，互动讨论，听取有关保健的介绍，并收集数据，以帮助制定旨在消除少数群体之间健康差距的国家保健政策。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Health disparities are prevalent among African Americans and other minorities. This project was developed in response to the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development's (NICHD), of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), initiative to address and eliminate health care disparities among minorities. An Academic-Community Partnership has been formed between Talladega College and Rocky Mount Baptist Church community, in collaboration with a cohort of African American physicians in the area. The primary focus of this pilot project application is to address health disparities among citizens of the Rocky Mount Community. The goals of the project are: 1) to identify the most common challenges that adversely affect African Americans access to health care and health care information; 2) provide information how hereditary factors and life styles affect minority health and collect data to help establish national policies to eliminate health care disparities; 3) determine the best location and method for information dissemination on health care disparities. The project will provide a structured forum for citizens to enter into informal and formal dialogue with health care professionals and educators to discuss and garner information on health risk factors, such as improper diet, lack of exercise, postponing visits to the doctor's office, and inability to ask the doctor appropriate questions. The goals will be achieved by conducting open meetings at the College and the Rocky Mount Baptist Church that will bring health care providers and citizens together to engage in dialogue, interactive discussions, hear presentations on health care, and collect data to help in the development of national health care policies designed to eliminate health disparities among minorities.