Georgia State University Center of Excellence: Syndemics of Disparities

这个提议的格鲁吉亚州立大学卓越中心：差异综合征是一个P20中心 这是为了响应NCMHD申请探索性中心的要求而设计的， 卓越（RFA：MD-09-005）。探索性的NCMHD卓越中心的激励重点， 我们在格鲁吉亚州立大学提出的一个建议是， 亚特兰大市中心的人口。症状的方法假定，个人，社会， 环境问题与疾病和病症相互作用，造成更高的发病率， 如果这些条件单独起作用，死亡率会更高。个别例子比比皆是，但 据我们所知，还没有对一个大的、多样化的都市区进行全面分析。在 除了三个具体的项目，我们提出这样一个全面的分析，作为我们的研究核心的一部分。 所需数据的收集和分析将服务于我们的研究计划;将是我们研究计划的关键要素。 培训/教育核心，为学生和教师提供必要的数据资源; 为我们的社区参与/外展核心提供规划和实施所需的基础设施 干预措施。 整个中心的具体目标是：l）巩固和扩大公共研究所的重点 关于城市人口健康差距的研究 在亚特兰大大都市; 2）开发一个研究计划的基础上， 传染病和慢性病、社会和人口、刑事司法和城市规划来源; 3） 制定一个培训计划，建立在目前的公共卫生硕士和即将提供的公共卫生博士学位， 重点关注健康差距和多因素干预措施;以及4）继续发展 以研究数据库为基础，利用 社区参与式研究机制。

This proposed Georgia State University Center of Excellence: Syndemics of Disparities is a P20 Center which was desingned in reponse to the NCMHD request for application for Exploratory Centers for Excellence (RFA: MD-09-005). The motivating focus for the exploratory NCMHD Center of Excellence that we propose at Georgia State University is an understanding of the syndemic burden on health disparity populations in the inner cities of Atlanta. The syndemic approach posits that personal, social, and environmental issues interact with diseases and conditions to produce a greater level of morbidity and mortality than would occur if these conditions acted singly. Individual examples are rife, but a comprehensive analysis of a large, diverse metropolitan area has not to our knowledge been undertaken. In addition to three specific projects, we propose such an comprehensive analysis as part of our Research Core. The collection and analysis of required data will serve our research plan; will be a key element in our Training/Education Core by providing students and faculty with the necessary data resources; and will provide our Community Engagement/Outreach Core with the needed infrastructure to plan and implement interventions. The Specifc Aims of the overall center are: l)Consolidate and expand the focus of the Institute for Public Health and the Partnership for Urban Health Research on health disparities suffered by urban populations in metropolitan Atlanta; 2) Develop a research program based on assembled data from geographic, infectious and chronic disease, social and demographic, criminal justice, and urban planning sources; 3) Develop a training program, built on the current MPH and soon-to-be-offered PhD in Public Health, that focuses on health disparities and multifactorial interventions; and 4) Continue the development of community interventions to ameliorate health disparities, based on the research data base and using the mechanism of community-based participatory research.