Lower Washington Heights CBPR Partnership

描述(申请人提供)：这项研究项目的具体目标是改善位于曼哈顿北部以拉丁裔/非裔美国人为主的华盛顿高地社区的健康状况，减少健康差距。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，并计划基于社区的参与性研究(CBPR)来实现这一点，该研究将利用活跃的社区领导人的反馈，以便我们可以共同确定对华盛顿高地人口最有意义的医疗研究重点。这将是CBPR长期议程的开始，其中包括评估和衡量将在社区积极参与下制定的当前和未来干预措施的结果。生活在糟糕的医疗保健结果的问题中，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。通过一个这样的合作，我们希望在这个项目的基础上，一个联盟目前正在以深刻的方式改变华盛顿高地社区。这个名为健康学院伙伴关系咨询委员会的工作伙伴关系已经开设了一所以健康为导向的初中和高中，名为高地社区健康学院，建立在纽约长老会附近。我们建议与该伙伴关系咨询委员会合作，建立发展和维持基于社区的参与性研究伙伴关系所需的信任关系、组织结构和业务规范。在为期三年的项目结束时，该伙伴关系将有能力、有能力和团结地成功申请研究资金。目标1：通过建立CBPR伙伴关系咨询委员会，改善华盛顿高地的健康素养和信息传播，该委员会将为开展CBPR项目提供一个结构，从而提高健康素养和信息传播。目标2：在纽约长老会医院(申请组织)、哥伦比亚大学、社区高地联盟和高地社区卫生学院之间制定一份谅解备忘录，目的是开展一个关于卫生知识普及和信息传播的CBPR项目。目标3：通过举办至少5个利益攸关方焦点小组和3个公开社区论坛，为社区宣传提供一个论坛，这些论坛将确定社区对解决健康差距的兴趣，并将教育社区了解健康差距状况、卫生资源以及公共卫生伙伴关系在帮助纠正这种差距方面的作用。目标4：此外，我们的目标是在CBPR分析和结果评估的基础上，为这类研究和进一步干预设计和创建资金建议。我们的假设是，已投资的社区组织与设在集水区周围机构的研究小组结成牢固的现有伙伴关系，并利用基于社区的参与性研究，可以合并为一种有效的变革工具--无论是在地方上，还是在国家范围内。 公共卫生相关性：我们的假设是，已投资的社区组织与设在集水区周围机构的研究小组结成强有力的现有伙伴关系，并利用基于社区的参与性研究，可以合并为一种有效的变革工具--无论是在地方上还是在国家范围内。

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.