Central Plains Center for American Indian Health Disparties (CPC-AIHD)

美国印第安人（Al）遭受了美国所有种族/民族群体中最大的健康差异。此外，人工智能在研究中的代表性不足，特别是在临床试验中，以及在高等教育中，包括本科课程，研究生课程和医学院。为了解决这些健康差距，使更多的铝进入卫生专业，我们建议美国印第安人健康差距（CPC-AIHD）的中原中心的发展。我们的长期目标是减少健康 通过高质量的以社区为基础的参与性研究（CBPR），以及通过从高中到大学、再到研究生院和医学院的管道计划，为Al学生提供更多进入卫生专业的机会，来消除中部平原Al之间的差距。我们对CPC-AIHD的具体目标是：1）建立一个跨学科的CBPR中心，研究美国和欧洲的Al社区的健康差异。 中原; 2）通过质量控制的生物统计学和数据管理，为中心的健康差异研究人员提供方法论支持; 3）为Al学生从高中，到大学，再到卫生专业的研究生院创建教育管道;和4）通过社区咨询委员会和研究人员在研究过程的各个部分争取当地和区域Al社区的帮助。在过去的五年中，在美国印第安社区健康计划在堪萨斯医学中心大学已经开发和领导创建美国印第安人健康研究和教育联盟，学术机构，部落，社区组织和公司/政府实体的联盟，其使命是通过高质量的参与性研究和教育，以提高铝的健康。CPC-AIHD将建立在我们成功的CBPR研究团队和联盟的基础上，并将现有的资助健康差异研究与两个新的研究项目相结合。我们的项目包括：1）乳房X光检查满意度项目，旨在确定如何改善乳房X光检查体验，以鼓励人工流产妇女重复乳房X光检查;以及2） 一项流行病学研究集中在部落大学生的吸烟模式上，以帮助确定为什么艾尔在美国的任何种族/民族群体中吸烟率最高。

American Indians (Al) suffer some ofthe greatest health disparities among all racial/ethnic groups in the United States. In addition, Al are under-represented in research, particularly in clinical trials, and in higher education, including undergraduate programs, graduate programs, and medical school. To address these health disparities and bring more Al into the health professions, we propose the development of the Central Plains Center for American Indian Health Disparities (CPC-AIHD). Our long term goal is to reduce health disparities among Al in the Central Plains through quality community-based participatory research (CBPR) and enhanced opportunities for Al students to enter the health professions through pipeline programs from high school through college and into graduate and medical school. Our Specific Aims for the CPC-AIHD are to: 1) To create an interdisciplinary, CBPR center for health disparities research in Al communities in the Central Plains; 2) To provide methodologic support to health disparities researchers in the Center through quality-controlled biostatistics and data management; 3) To create an educational pipeline for Al students from high school, through college, and into graduate schools in the health professions; and 4) To enlist the help of the local and regional Al communities in all parts of the research process through Community Advisory Boards and research staff. Over the past five years, the Program in American Indian Community Health at the University of Kansas Medical Center has developed and lead the creation ofthe American Indian Health Research and Education Alliance, an alliance of academic institutions, tribes, community organizations, and corporations/government entities, whose mission is to improve the health of Al through quality participatory research and education. The CPC-AIHD will build on our successful CBPR research team and alliance and will integrate existing, funded health disparities research with two new research projects. Our projects include 1) a mammography satisfaction project designed to detemnine how the mammography experience can be improved to encourage repeat mammography among Al women; and 2) an epidemiology study focused on smoking pattems among tribal college students to help determine why Al have the highest smoking rates of any racial/ethnic group in the US.