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CENTRAL PLAINS CENTER FOR AMERICAN INDIAN HEALTH DISPARITIES (CPC-AIHD) REVISION
Impact/Purpose:
The objective of the current project is to create an Environmental Health Subcore within our Community Outreach and Engagement Core. This will capitalize on CAICH's infrastructure and community connectedness. Our secondary objective is to strengthen our burgeoning partnership with the Children's Mercy Hospital Center for Environmental Health. This partnership will expand and continue to address environmental issues brought to our attention by our Community Advisory Boards. We propose the following specific aims: (1) To create an Environmental Health Subcore (EHS) to support current and future training and education, outreach, and research projects; and (2) To expand our longitudinal research project examining tribal college students' tobacco use to include exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) and availability of tobacco products using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) mapping.
Description:
American Indians (AI) suffer some of the greatest health disparities in the US. Many conditions, including asthma, obesity, and diabetes, are prevalent among AI and are influenced by the places AI live. In addition, AI have high rates of severe physical housing problems and the highest rates of smoking of any ethnic group in the US. The KUMC Central Plains Center for American Indian Health Disparities, renamed Center for American Indian Community Health (CAICH), was created in 2010 through a P20 Exploratory Center of Excellence grant to study and address health disparities faced by AI.