Fort Jane G, McClellan Linda
Department of Medical Education, Meharry Medical College, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
J Health Care Poor Underserved. 2006 May;17(2 Suppl):78-87. doi: 10.1353/hpu.2006.0085.
An important national health care effort is elimination of racial and ethnic disparities in six specific conditions: infant mortality, cancer screening and management, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, human immunodeficiency virus infection, and child and adult immunizations. To address this concern, several health entities in Nashville, Tennessee responded to a grant initiative from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to develop a Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health (REACH) demonstration project. The resulting award is the Nashville REACH 2010 Project, charged to develop sustainable methods to reduce and, in time, eliminate racial and ethnic disparities in cardiovascular disease and diabetes in the North Nashville community, where mortality rates of these diseases are substantially higher than in other parts of the county. As one of its many interests, the project included potential health care providers to receive and disseminate messages about disease prevention and health education. The present paper describes the community-campus partnership between the Nashville REACH 2010 project and the post-baccalaureate program of Meharry Medical College, a partnership that enfolded Meharry's pre-professional health care students into the community-based participatory service research project to increase the awareness and sensitivity of future minority health care providers to issues in minority and poor, underserved populations and to increase potential providers' familiarity with the processes involved in community-based participatory research.
婴儿死亡率、癌症筛查与管理、心血管疾病、糖尿病、人类免疫缺陷病毒感染以及儿童和成人免疫接种。为解决这一问题，田纳西州纳什维尔市的几个卫生机构响应了疾病控制与预防中心的一项拨款倡议，开展了一个社区健康的种族和族裔方法（REACH）示范项目。最终获得的奖项是纳什维尔REACH 2010项目，其任务是制定可持续的方法，以减少并最终消除北纳什维尔社区在心血管疾病和糖尿病方面的种族和族裔差异，该社区这些疾病的死亡率远高于该县其他地区。作为其众多关注点之一，该项目让潜在的医疗保健提供者接收并传播有关疾病预防和健康教育的信息。本文描述了纳什维尔REACH 2010项目与梅哈里医学院学士后项目之间的社区-校园合作关系，这种合作关系将梅哈里医学院的职业前医疗保健学生纳入基于社区的参与性服务研究项目，以提高未来少数族裔医疗保健提供者对少数族裔和贫困、服务不足人群问题的认识和敏感度，并增加潜在提供者对基于社区的参与性研究相关过程的熟悉程度。
