Child Health

Community Child Health Research

Last Updated Jan 6, 2009 09:20 PM

RESEARCH OBJECTIVES

Nature of the Research Problem

Attempts to explain disparities in child health arising along racial, ethnic
and socio-economic gradients have proliferated during the last decade. Many
approaches arising from biomedical and social-behavioral perspectives have
made progress in developing a satisfying explanation, but usually such
attempts have fallen short of a complete explanation. At the same time, the
need for greater involvement of minority communities in health disparities
research has become increasingly appreciated. Such involvement can help
assure that the science addresses relevant issues in their communities and
that an effective platform to translate scientific findings is created. In
order to address these needs, it is necessary to field a study that blends
biomedical and socio-behavioral science and establishes partnerships with
disadvantaged communities from the earliest stages of the study. This RFA
invites applications from research sites that wish to combine these factors
into a multi-site, multi-method study of community child health that is
predicated on community partnerships with the scientific team.