Abstract
Objective: To describe the design and rationale of the Healthy Community Neighborhood Initiative (HCNI), a multicomponent study to understand and document health risk and resources in a low-income and minority community. Design: A community-partnered participatory research project. Setting: A low-income, biethnic African American and Latino neighborhood in South Los Angeles. Participants: Adult community residents aged >18 years. Main Outcome Measures: Household survey and clinical data collection; neighborhood characteristics; neighborhood observations; and community resources asset mapping. Results: We enrolled 206 participants (90% of those eligible), of whom 205 completed the household interview and examination, and 199 provided laboratory samples. Among enrollees, 82 (40%) were aged >50 years and participated in functional status measurement. We completed neighborhood observations on 93 street segments; an average of 2.2 (SD=1.6) study participants resided on each street segment observed. The community asset map identified 290 resources summarized in a Community Resource Guide given to all participants. Conclusions: The HCNI communityacademic partnership has built a framework to assess and document the individual, social, and community factors that may influence clinical and social outcomes in a community at high-risk for preventable chronic disease. Our project suggests that a community collaborative can use culturally and scientifically sound strategies to identify community-centered health and social needs. Additional work is needed to understand strategies for developing and implementing interventions to mitigate these disparities.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 123-132 |
| Number of pages | 10 |
| Journal | Ethnicity and Disease |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Dec 1 2016 |
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Keywords
- African American
- Chronic Disease
- Community Assets
- Community-Partnered Research
- Design
- Latino
- Rationale
- Under-resourced Communities
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Epidemiology
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The healthy community neighborhood initiative : Rationale and design. / Brown, Arleen F.; Morris, D'Ann M.; Kahn, Katherine L.; Sankaré, Ibrahima C.; King, Keyonna M; Vargas, Roberto; Lucas-Wright, Aziza; Jones, Loretta F.; Flowers, Astrea; Jones, Felica U.; Bross, Rachelle; Banner, Dennishia; Del Pino, Homero E.; Pitts, Orwilda L.; Zhang, Lujia; Porter, Courtney; Madrigal, Sigrid K.; Vassar, Stefanie D.; Vangala, Sitaram; Liang, Li Jung; Martinez, Arturo B.; Norris, Keith C.
In: Ethnicity and Disease, Vol. 26, No. 1, 01.12.2016, p. 123-132.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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AU - Brown, Arleen F.
AU - Morris, D'Ann M.
AU - Kahn, Katherine L.
AU - Sankaré, Ibrahima C.
AU - King, Keyonna M
AU - Vargas, Roberto
AU - Lucas-Wright, Aziza
AU - Jones, Loretta F.
AU - Flowers, Astrea
AU - Jones, Felica U.
AU - Bross, Rachelle
AU - Banner, Dennishia
AU - Del Pino, Homero E.
AU - Pitts, Orwilda L.
AU - Zhang, Lujia
AU - Porter, Courtney
AU - Madrigal, Sigrid K.
AU - Vassar, Stefanie D.
AU - Vangala, Sitaram
AU - Liang, Li Jung
AU - Martinez, Arturo B.
AU - Norris, Keith C.
PY - 2016/12/1
Y1 - 2016/12/1
N2 - Objective: To describe the design and rationale of the Healthy Community Neighborhood Initiative (HCNI), a multicomponent study to understand and document health risk and resources in a low-income and minority community. Design: A community-partnered participatory research project. Setting: A low-income, biethnic African American and Latino neighborhood in South Los Angeles. Participants: Adult community residents aged >18 years. Main Outcome Measures: Household survey and clinical data collection; neighborhood characteristics; neighborhood observations; and community resources asset mapping. Results: We enrolled 206 participants (90% of those eligible), of whom 205 completed the household interview and examination, and 199 provided laboratory samples. Among enrollees, 82 (40%) were aged >50 years and participated in functional status measurement. We completed neighborhood observations on 93 street segments; an average of 2.2 (SD=1.6) study participants resided on each street segment observed. The community asset map identified 290 resources summarized in a Community Resource Guide given to all participants. Conclusions: The HCNI communityacademic partnership has built a framework to assess and document the individual, social, and community factors that may influence clinical and social outcomes in a community at high-risk for preventable chronic disease. Our project suggests that a community collaborative can use culturally and scientifically sound strategies to identify community-centered health and social needs. Additional work is needed to understand strategies for developing and implementing interventions to mitigate these disparities.
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