Assessing and Addressing Social Determinants of Health through The East Side Village Health Worker Partnership of the Detroit Urban Research Center Amy Schulz, Ph.D., Edith Parker, Dr.P.H., Barbara Israel, Dr.P.H., Murlisa Robinson, B.A., Alex Allen, B.A.
In this presentation, we will describe the East Side Village Health Worker Partnership (ESVHWP), a demonstration project of the Detroit Community-Academic Urban Research Center(URC) funded through a cooperative agreement with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The ESVHWP has used a participatory community-based intervention research process to assess social determinants of health for women raising children on Detroit’s east side, and to plan, implement, and evaluate interventions on the basis of that assessment. We will describe the use of a stress process model as a conceptual framework for examining social determinants of health among east side residents, and the active engagement of members of the ESVHWP Steering Committee in the process of identifying aspects of the model relevant for women raising children on the east side. The presentation will present results from analyses of data from multiple sources and using multiple methods (community survey, in-depth interviews, field notes, and lay health advisors’ experience and assessments of their communities) and discuss the use of those results to determine priorities for the Partnership. We will use the example of the "Healthy Eating and Exercising to reduce Diabetes" intervention, designed and implemented by the ESVHWP, to illustrate the engagement of community-based organizations, health and human service agencies, and academic partners in addressing the social determinants of health.
Learning Objectives: At the end of this session, participants will be able to: 1. Describe the use of a stress process framework to assess social determinants of health in an urban setting; 2. Describe the use of multiple methods of data collection and analysis in an assessment of social determinants of health in an urban community; 3. Identify three processes through which results from the community assessment can be used to inform the partnerships' priorities for interventions; 4. Describe the roles of community members, community-based organizations, health service providers and academic institutions in the process of community assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of community-based interventions
Keywords: Community-Based Partnership, Urban Health
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