Training the Next Generation of Latino Health Researchers: A Multilevel, Transdisciplinary, Community-Engaged Approach.
Health Promot Pract
; 18(4): 497-504, 2017 07.
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| ID: mdl-27609622
ABSTRACT
Reducing health disparities is a national public health priority. Latinos represent the largest racial/ethnic minority group in the United States and suffer disproportionately from poor health outcomes, including cardiovascular disease risk. Academic training programs are an opportunity for reducing health disparities, in part by increasing the diversity of the public health workforce and by incorporating training designed to develop a skill set to address health disparities. This article describes the Training and Career Development Program at the UCLA Center for Population Health and Health Disparities a multilevel, transdisciplinary training program that uses a community-engaged approach to reduce cardiovascular disease risk in two urban Mexican American communities. Results suggest that this program is effective in enhancing the skill sets of traditionally underrepresented students to become health disparities researchers and practitioners.
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Assunto principal:
Pesquisadores
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Doenças Cardiovasculares
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Escolha da Profissão
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Americanos Mexicanos
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Comunicação Interdisciplinar
Limite:
Humans
País/Região como assunto:
America do norte
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Health Promot Pract
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SAUDE PUBLICA
Ano de publicação:
2017
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Estados Unidos