Bridging communication in research to address health disparities in the suburbs

描述(由申请人提供)：生物医学和行为研究的空前爆炸性，加上上个世纪通信系统和技术的巨大进步，为接近疾病控制连续体的新范式奠定了基础。随着更加个性化和参与性的方法，预防疾病在今天比以往任何时候都更现实。然而，如果不将这些研究和知识有效地传播给服务不足的社区，现有的卫生不平等现象将会扩大。这项申请寻求通过促进西北大学(NU)和郊区服务不足的社区DuPage县之间萌芽的校园-社区合作伙伴关系来弥合研究交流方面的差距。这种校园-社区伙伴关系将利用DuPage Health Coalition与合作伙伴的积极参与和对社区的了解，这些合作伙伴在NU对服务不足的人群进行了良好的研究记录。在我们各自的优势、共享知识和宝贵经验的基础上，我们预计，以郊区穷人为重点的研究伙伴关系将为利用基于社区的参与式模式进行创造性互动创造一个理想的机会。在这项建议中，我们的目标是通过社区战略加强社区对研究设计和方法的理解，重点关注医疗服务不足的社区成员和学术大学研究人员在语言和沟通方面与健康和疾病有关的独特差异。这种关系将导致个性化的、文化上合适的语言的发展，以便更有效地：1)围绕其建立对话；2)实施；3)评估；以及4)在DuPage社区内传播研究。我们的目标是，这种新发现的理解水平将导致一个非专业健康外展工作者计划的发展，该计划可以帮助维持改善研究方面的沟通，从而促进疾病预防和改善这个服务不足的社区的健康。这项为期两年的提案的最终结果是加强基于相互信任和共同目标的真正研究伙伴关系，这将提高未来合作项目的研究和数据的质量。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The unprecedented explosion in biomedical and behavioral research coupled with the tremendous advancement in communication systems and technology over the last century sets the stage for a new paradigm in approaching the disease control continuum. With more personalized and participatory methods, preempting disease is more of a reality today than it ever has been. However, without the translation of such research and knowledge effectively communicated to underserved communities, the existing inequalities in health will widen. This application seeks to bridge the gap in communication on research through fostering a budding campus-community partnership between Northwestern University (NU) and a suburban, underserved community, DuPage County. This campus-community partnership will leverage DuPage Health Coalition's active involvement and knowledge of their community with partners who have a well-established record of research in underserved populations at NU. Building upon each of our strengths, shared knowledge, and valuable experiences, we anticipate that a research partnership focused on the suburban poor establishes an ideal opportunity for a creative interaction utilizing a community based participatory model. Within this proposal, we aim to enhance the community's understanding of research design and methods through community strategies focusing on the unique differences in language and communication concerning health and disease used by medically underserved community members and academic university researchers. Such a relationship will lead to the development of personalized, culturally appropriate language with which to more effectively: 1) build dialogue around; 2) implement; 3) evaluate; and 4) disseminate research within the community of DuPage. It is our aim that this new found level of understanding will lead to the development of a lay health outreach worker program that can help sustain the improved communication on research and thus promote prevention of disease and improve health within this underserved community. The culmination of this two year proposal is to fortify a true research partnership based on mutual trust and common goals that will enhance the quality of research and data on future collaborative projects.