Lower Washington Heights CBPR Partnership

描述（由申请人提供）：本研究项目的具体目标是改善健康结果，减少健康差距，主要是拉丁裔/非洲裔美国人社区的华盛顿高地，位于北方曼哈顿。我们建议通过建立社区组织，纽约长老会医院和哥伦比亚大学之间的现有关系，并通过规划社区为基础的前瞻性研究（CBPR），将利用积极的社区领导人的反馈意见，使我们可以共同确定最有意义的医疗保健研究优先事项的人口华盛顿高地。这将是一个长期的CBPR议程的开始，其中包括评估和衡量当前和未来干预措施的结果，这些干预措施将在社区积极参与下制定。生活在医疗保健结果不佳的问题，社区本身早些时候试图通过在社区组织之间以及与邻近的医院和大学建立强有力的合作伙伴关系来解决这些问题。通过这样一个合作，我们希望建立这个项目的基础上，一个联盟目前正在深刻地改变华盛顿高地社区。这一工作伙伴关系被称为卫生学院伙伴关系咨询委员会，已经在纽约长老会附近开办了一所名为高地社区卫生学院的以卫生为导向的初中和高中。我们建议与该伙伴关系咨询委员会合作，建立信任关系，组织结构和发展和维持基于社区的参与性研究伙伴关系所需的操作规范。在为期三年的项目结束时，合作伙伴关系将有能力，能力和团结，成功申请研究资金。目标1：通过建立一个CBPR伙伴关系咨询委员会，改善华盛顿高地的卫生知识普及和信息传播，该委员会将为开展CBPR项目提供一个结构，以改善卫生知识普及和信息传播。目标二：在纽约长老会医院（申请组织）、哥伦比亚大学、高地社区联盟和高地社区卫生学院之间制定一项谅解备忘录，以便开展关于卫生知识普及和信息传播的社区卫生政策研究项目。目标3：提供一个社区外展论坛，至少组织5个利益攸关方重点小组和3个公开社区论坛，以确定社区对解决健康差距的兴趣，并向社区宣传健康差距状况、卫生资源以及CPBR伙伴关系在帮助纠正此类差距方面的作用。目标4：此外，我们的目标是设计和创建此类研究的资助提案，并根据CBPR分析和成果评估进行进一步干预。我们的假设是，一个强大的预先存在的合作伙伴关系的投资社区组织与研究团队的基础上，在周围的集水区的机构，并使用基于社区的启发性研究可以合并为一个有效的工具，为改变-无论是在当地，并通过扩展，全国。 公共卫生相关性：我们的假设是，一个强大的预先存在的合作伙伴关系的投资社区组织与研究团队的基础上，在周围的集水区的机构，并使用基于社区的启发性研究可以合并为一个有效的工具，为改变-无论是在当地，并通过扩展，全国。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The specific aims of this research project are to improve health outcomes and decrease health disparities in the predominantly Latino/African American neighborhood of Washington Heights, located in Northern Manhattan. We propose to do this by building upon existing relationships among community organizations, New York-Presbyterian Hospital and Columbia University and by planning Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR) that will utilize feedback from active community leaders so that we may jointly identify the most meaningful healthcare research priorities for the population of Washington Heights. This will be the beginning of a long-term CBPR agenda that includes assessing and measuring the outcome of current and future interventions that will be developed with active community participation. Living with the problems of poor healthcare outcomes, the community itself has earlier attempted to address the issues by forming strong collaborative partnerships among community organizations and with the neighboring Hospital and University. Through one such collaboration, the one upon which we wish to build this project, a coalition is currently changing the Washington Heights community in profound ways. This working partnership, known as the Health Academy Partnership Advisory Board, has already opened a health-oriented middle and high school called the Community Health Academy of the Heights, established in close proximity to New York Presbyterian. We propose to work with that Partnership Advisory Board to build the trusting relationships, organizational structures, and operational norms required to develop and sustain Community Based Participatory Research partnerships. At the end of the three year project, the partnership will have the capability, capacity and unity to successfully apply for research funding. Aim 1: Improve health literacy and information dissemination in Washington Heights by establishing a CBPR Partnership Advisory Board that will provide a structure for conducting CBPR projects that will improve health literacy and information dissemination. Aim 2: Develop an MOU between the New York Presbyterian Hospital (applicant organization), Columbia University, the Community League of the Heights, and the Community Health Academy of the Heights for the purpose of carrying out a CBPR project on health literacy and information dissemination. Aim 3: Provide a forum for community outreach by conducting at least 5 stakeholder focus groups and three open community forums that will identify the community's interest in addressing disparities in health and that will educate the community about health disparity conditions, health resources and the role of the CPBR Partnership in helping to remediate such disparities. Aim 4: In addition, we aim to design and create funding proposals for such research and for further interventions based on CBPR analyses and outcomes assessments. Our hypothesis is that a strong pre-existing partnership of invested community organizations aligned with a research team based at the institutions surrounding the catchment area, and the use of Community Based Participatory Research can coalesce as an effective tool for change - both locally and, by extension, nationally. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Our hypothesis is that a strong pre-existing partnership of invested community organizations aligned with a research team based at the institutions surrounding the catchment area, and the use of Community Based Participatory Research can coalesce as an effective tool for change - both locally and, by extension, nationally.