Watts Rising: A Vision for a Healthier Watts

摘要 瓦茨是洛杉矶东南部的一个社区，它面临着系统性的撤资、歧视、 和资源匮乏，导致多个领域的健康差距，包括高比率 糖尿病和肥胖症、高污染负担和有限的就业机会。瓦茨居民， 几乎只有有色人种(73%的拉丁裔和25%的黑人/非裔美国人)的预期寿命 比洛杉矶其他地区低12年，很大程度上是由于社区几十年的忽视 面朝天。这项建议建立在现有瓦茨崛起合作组织(WRC)解决这一问题的工作基础上 通过社区主导的方法来开发和评估干预措施，以解决 造成这些差距和健康结果的两个主要结构性因素：获得 资源和粮食不安全以及经济不稳定。该项目将通过一个 洛杉矶市住房管理局、加州大学洛杉矶分校 洛杉矶和查尔斯·德鲁大学以及WRC和瓦茨居民的50名成员。我们 将采用干预映射过程来完善干预，从而形成一个 社区花园将提供更多获得健康食品、绿地的机会 和体力活动以及创业机会为企业利用来自 花园。最终，我们预计干预措施将降低#年可预防的慢性病发病率。 并为劳动力发展提供机会。这一干预有可能 对整个瓦茨社区约40,000名居民产生了积极影响。

ABSTRACT Watts is a community in Southeast Los Angeles that has faced systematic disinvestment, discrimination, and resource deprivation, resulting in health disparities across multiple domains including high rates of diabetes and obesity, high pollution burdens and limited employment opportunities. Watts residents, almost exclusively people of color, (73% Latinx and 25% Black/African American), have a life expectancy twelve years lower than other parts of Los Angeles, largely due to decades of neglect the community has faced. This proposal builds on the work of the existing Watts Rising Collaborative (WRC) to address this neglect through a community-led approach to develop and evaluate an intervention that will address two primary structural factors that contribute to these disparities and health outcomes: access to resources and food insecurity and economic instability. The project will be developed through a partnership between the Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles, the University of California Los Angeles and Charles Drew University as well as the 50 members of the WRC and Watts residents. We will employ an intervention mapping process to refine an intervention that will develop a network of community gardens that will provide opportunities for increased access to healthy foods, green space and physical activity as well as entrepreneurial opportunities for businesses utilizing food from the gardens. Ultimately, we anticipate the intervention will decrease rates of preventable chronic disease in Watts and provide opportunities for workforce development. This intervention has the potential to positively affect the entirety of the Watts community of approximately 40,000 residents.