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WHAT IS THE PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM?
In
1995, CDC established Urban Research Centers (URCs) to assess and improve
the health of urban communities. Located in Detroit, New York City, and
Seattle, the URCs engage government, academic, private, and community
organizations as partners in setting priorities and designing,
implementing, and evaluating community-focused public health research and
interventions. These effective and sustainable partnerships address such
community-defined priorities as the prevention and management of diabetes,
asthma, and intimate partner violence in African Americans,
Hispanics/Latinos, Asians and Pacific Islanders, as well as immigrant and
refugee populations
Early successes in the URCs
demonstrate that community-based participatory research is an effective
strategy for identifying and systematically addressing urban public health
problems. Next steps include refining evaluation methods and applying the
model to a broader range of settings, such as expanding into new
Hispanic/Latino communities identified in the ten most populous States, or
the U.S.-Mexican border communities, or other Hispanic/Latino communities
at risk |
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