Chicago Health and Aging Services Exchange:Partnering for Research & Service

描述（由申请人提供）：芝加哥南区是一个95平方英里的地区，包括芝加哥77个社区中的34个，是美国最大的连续城市非洲裔美国人社区之一（占110万人的72%）。芝加哥最贫穷的8个社区中有7个位于南区；其中5个校区毗邻位于该市最富裕地区之一的大学校园。12%的人口年龄在65岁以上；芝加哥最大的老年人口居住在查塔姆，一个南区社区。将2004年芝加哥公共卫生部的监测数据与2010年健康人的指标进行比较，芝加哥南区居民的健康状况远远落后于城市和全国其他地区。尽管芝加哥大学校园和医疗中心位于市中心。然而，即使在最贫穷的社区，强大的社区组织、健全的社会网络、丰富的文化和信仰传统以及富有活力的小企业也充满活力。该申请提议利用南区社区与芝加哥大学的联合资产，建立变革性的、可持续的、与社区相关的健康研究基础设施，通过在健康和人类服务部门创造透明度和效率，为这一人群带来直接利益。具体目标是利用机构，基金会和NIH的投资：1)设计，建立并向公众开放，一个基于互联网的信息交换，匹配：a)个人与卫生和人类服务，b)卫生研究人员和资助者与数据，以监测和应对卫生和人类服务部门的动态；2)雇用、培训、部署3名全职社区卫生信息交流研究员并跟踪其影响，他们将帮助建立交流，促进承诺和吸收，并为所有合作伙伴的共同利益传播调查结果和知识；3)建立一个经济可持续性模型，并计划和指标跟踪市场动态，包括数量，活动，绩效和供需地理。芝加哥健康和老龄服务交流中心将通过社区领袖和大学研究人员之间的互利合作，在芝加哥南区开发，并得到交流咨询委员会的投入，该委员会包括许多专家，宗教领袖，慈善家以及伊利诺伊州州长和芝加哥市长办公室的行政级别代表。其愿景是开发一个可扩展的原型，以提高卫生和人类服务部门的效率，同时在城市、州甚至全球范围内加强与社区有关的卫生研究能力。这项工作的长期目标是建立团队、流程和技术，以解决卫生和人力服务部门的重大基础设施匹配问题。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The South Side of Chicago is a 95 square mile region including 34 of Chicago's 77 community areas, and is one of the nation's largest contiguous urban African American communities (72% of 1.1 million people). Seven of the 8 poorest communities in Chicago are found on the South Side; 5 of these hug the University campus which resides in one of the wealthiest areas of the city. Twelve percent of the population is 65 or older; the largest population of older adults in Chicago resides in Chatham, a South Side community. Comparing Chicago Department of Public Health 2004 surveillance data to Healthy People 2010 indicators, health of individuals living on Chicago's South Side lags far behind that of the rest of the city and the nation. This is despite the centrally-located University of Chicago campus and Medical Center. Yet, even in the poorest communities, vitality is seen in strong community organizations, robust social networks, rich cultural and faith traditions, and resilient small businesses. This application proposes to leverage the joint assets of the South Side community with the University of Chicago to build transformative, sustainable, community-linked health research infrastructure that also delivers immediate benefit to this population by creating transparency and efficiency in the health and human services sector. The specific aims leverage institutional, foundation and NIH investments to: 1) Design, build and open to the public, an internet-based information exchange, that matches: a) individuals with health and human services, and b) health researchers and funders with data to monitor and respond to health and human services sector dynamics; 2) Hire, train, deploy and track impact of 3 full-time Community Health Information Exchange Fellows (CHIEFs) who will help build the Exchange, facilitate commitment and uptake, and disseminate findings and knowledge for mutual benefit of all partners; 3) Build an economic sustainability model and plan and metrics for tracking market dynamics including volume, activity, performance, and the geography of supply and demand. The Chicago Health and Aging Services Exchange will be developed for the South Side of Chicago via a mutually beneficial collaboration between community leaders and university researchers, with input from an Exchange Advisory Board that includes, among many experts, faith leaders, philanthropists, and executive-level representatives from the offices of the Governor of Illinois and the Mayor of Chicago. The vision is to develop a scalable prototype to transform efficiency in the health and human services sector while enhancing community-linked health research capacity on a city, state, and even a global scale. The long-term objective of this work is to build the team, processes, and technology to address a major infrastructural matching problem in the health and human services sector. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The Chicago Health and Aging Services Exchange is an internet-based allocation mechanism that will match people most in need of services with the organization best suited to provide care. The downloadable data from this same site will facilitate social service evaluation and health research. The Exchange is being built by a diverse team of community and university partners for health research.