Allyson Kelley & Associates PLLC, Sandia Park, New Mexico (Dr Kelley and Mss Fisher and Matt); and Rocky Mountain Tribal Leaders Council, Tribal Epidemiology Center, (Messrs Piccione and Andreini and Ms Bingham).
J Public Health Manag Pract. 2019 Sep/Oct;25 Suppl 5, Tribal Epidemiology Centers: Advancing Public Health in Indian Country for Over 20 Years(Suppl 5 TRIBAL EPIDEMIOLOGY CENTERS ADVANCING PUBLIC HEALTH IN INDIAN COUNTRY FOR OVER 20 YEARS):S77-S83. doi: 10.1097/PHH.0000000000001016.
Documenting Tribal health priorities is needed to inform research agendas, policy efforts, advocacy, and funding. However, published literature rarely documents the methods used to develop surveys in Indigenous communities. This methods paper includes two objectives: (1) increase knowledge and understanding about the importance of community involvement in public health activities; and (2) provide an example of how the Rocky Mountain Tribal Leaders Council Epidemiology Center (RMTEC) worked with one Tribal community to develop a health priorities survey. This paper describes how the RMTEC worked with a Tribal community and Tribal College students to develop, pilot, and revise a health priorities survey. Recommendations focus on the need for more culturally-responsive survey methods, the importance of building Tribal capacity for health research, and the value of piloting surveys in communities prior to implementation.
记录部落健康优先事项对于告知研究议程、政策努力、宣传和资金支持是必要的。然而，已发表的文献很少记录在原住民社区中开发调查的方法。本方法论文有两个目标：（1）提高对社区参与公共卫生活动的重要性的认识和理解；（2）提供一个例子，说明落基山部落领袖理事会流行病学中心（RMTEC）如何与一个部落社区合作开发健康优先事项调查。本文描述了 RMTEC 如何与一个部落社区和部落学院的学生合作，开发、试点和修改健康优先事项调查。建议侧重于需要更具文化响应性的调查方法，建设部落健康研究能力的重要性，以及在社区实施之前对调查进行试点的价值。
