Hardy Claudia M, Wynn Theresa A, Huckaby Francine, Lisovicz Nedra, White-Johnson Freddie
Comprehensive Cancer Center-Deep South Network for Cancer Control, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, 35294-0001, USA.
Fam Community Health. 2005 Jan-Mar;28(1):28-40. doi: 10.1097/00003727-200501000-00006.
The African American community has played an influential role in generating change. Grass-roots organizations and concerned individuals can be included in programs designed to increase cancer awareness and cancer early detection practices to ultimately eliminate cancer disparities. The utilization of a formalized Community Health Advisors program can be an infrastructure by which effective cancer prevention and control programs can be conducted in underserved African American communities. The purpose of this article is to outline the steps necessary to develop an infrastructure for recruitment and training of grass-root African Americans to serve as Community Health Advisors trained as Research Partners.
非裔美国人社区在推动变革方面发挥了重要作用。基层组织和相关个人可以纳入旨在提高癌症意识和癌症早期检测实践的项目，以最终消除癌症差异。利用正式的社区健康顾问项目可以构建一个基础设施，通过它可以在服务不足的非裔美国人社区开展有效的癌症预防和控制项目。本文的目的是概述为招募和培训基层非裔美国人担任经培训成为研究伙伴的社区健康顾问而建立基础设施所需的步骤。
