Building Partnerships to Enhance Health and Health Care Delivery in Alabama and G

描述(由申请者提供)：塔斯基吉大学国家研究和医疗保健生物伦理中心(TUNCBRHC)寻求在阿拉巴马州和佐治亚州的州和地方公共卫生部门以及这两个州服务不足的黑带社区之间建立和保持合作伙伴关系。为此，将在卫生部与黑带民间社会、社会和信仰网络以及历史上的黑人学院和大学的研究人员之间建立定期和实质性的沟通。 拟议的会议将是在基于社区的参与性研究(CBPR)框架下召开的一系列年度会议中的第一次，这是一种“合作的研究方法，公平地让所有合作伙伴参与研究进程，并认识到每个研究伙伴所带来的独特优势”。通过为平等伙伴之间的信息传播和知情讨论提供空间，TUNCBRHC相信这些会议将： *建立一个程序，共同决定下一年公共卫生干预的优先事项，并建立一个论坛，评估前一年的干预措施。 *确定可在TUNCBRHC主办的年度卫生政策论坛上结合纪念活动探讨的问题。 *出版会议纪要，供全国消费。 非洲裔美国人受到健康差异的影响，例如，癌症发病率和癌症死亡率高于高加索人口(Darr，2005)。与非西班牙裔白人相比，黑人和其他少数族裔群体中观察到的额外死亡率中，心血管疾病和中风、化学依赖、糖尿病、凶杀和事故、艾滋病毒/艾滋病和婴儿死亡加上癌症占80%以上。 由于非洲裔美国人在人口结构上的集中度较高，这些差距的影响集中在黑带县。这些县在卫生产业服务的可获得性、可及性和可接受性方面面临挑战。 解决这些问题的努力必须涉及受影响最严重的社区的投入和最终的参与。这次会议旨在成为众多会议中第一个为社区参与提供平台的会议。 与公共卫生相关：非洲裔美国人受到健康差距和医疗保健获取困难的影响，与全国其他县相比，这些问题对黑带县的影响不成比例。解决这些问题不能只涉及联邦、州和地方卫生部门，还必须包括民间社会组织、社会和基于信仰的网络以及HBCU的研究。这次会议旨在成为阿拉巴马州和佐治亚州黑带地区州和地方卫生部门以及服务不足社区之间伙伴关系的基础系列会议的第一部分。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Tuskegee University's National Center for Bioethics in Research and Health Care (TUNCBRHC) seeks to forge and sustain a collaborative partnership between State and Local Public Health Departments in Alabama and Georgia, and underserved Black Belt communities in both states. This will be done by establishing regular and substantive communication between the Health Departments and Black Belt civil society, social and faith-based networks, as well as research faculty from Historically Black Colleges and Universities. The proposed conference is intended to be the first of a series of annual conferences, convened under the rubric of Community-based Participatory Research (CBPR), which is a "collaborative approach to research that equitably involves all partners in the research process and recognizes the unique strengths that each brings". By providing a space for information dissemination and informed discourse between equal partners, TUNCBRHC believes these conferences will: * Create a process for collaboratively deciding on priorities for public health intervention for the following year, and a forum for assessing interventions from the prior year. * Identify issues that can be explored at the annual health policy forums TUNCBRHC hosts in conjunction with the Commemoration Celebration. * Publish conference Proceedings for national consumption. African-Americans are subject to health disparities, for example, a higher incidence of cancer and higher cancer mortality rates than the Caucasian population (Darr, 2005). Cardiovascular diseases and stroke, chemical dependency, diabetes, homicide and accidents, HIV/AIDS and infant mortality added to cancer account for more than 80 percent of the excess mortality observed among Blacks and other minority groups when compared to non- Hispanic Whites. Because they have a higher demographic concentration of African-Americans, the effects of these disparities are concentrated in the Black Belt counties. These counties face challenges to the availability, accessibility and acceptability of health industry services. Attempts to resolve these issues must involve the input and ultimately the participation of the communities most affected. This conference is intended to be the first of many to provide a platform for community involvement. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: African-Americans are subject to health disparities, and health-care access difficulties, which have disproportionate effects on Black Belt counties compared to other counties nationally. Resolving these issues cannot involve only federal, state and local Health Departments, but must also include civil society organizations, social and faith-based networks and research from HBCUs. This conference is intended to be the first of a series that will serve as the foundation for a partnership between State and Local Health Departments and underserved communities in the Alabama and Georgia Black Belt.