Healthy Eating and Exercising to reduce Diabetes: A Community-Based Partnership Approach to Diabetes Prevention from the Detroit Urban Research Center
This presentation will describe the development and early implementation of a diabetes prevention intervention by the East Side Village Health Worker Partnership (ESVHWP) in Detroit, Michigan. The ESVHWP is a participatory community-based intervention research partnership that brings together community members, representatives from community-based organizations, health care institutions, and academic institutions to address the social determinants of health in an urban community, using a lay health advisor model. The ESVHWP was initiated in 1996 as part of the Detroit Urban Research Center, through a cooperative agreement with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Diabetes was identified as a priority health issue by community members who participate as lay health advisors, and this priority is consistent with local and national data confirming the increased risk of diabetes among African Americans living in urban areas. The presentation will describe the participatory approach used to plan, implement and evaluate the intervention, designed to address individual and community level factors to reduce the risk of adult onset diabetes. We will describe and analyze the role of the lay health advisors in identifying the issue and designing the intervention; examine the relationships and processes involved in carrying out the project; and address challenges and facilitating factors in developing and implementing this effort.
Learning Objectives: Participants in this session will be able to: 1. Describe the invovlement of Village Health Workers (lay health advisors) in the community planning process used to identify priorities for the East Side Village Health Worker Partnership; 2. Describe a process for the development and implementation of a community intervention to reduce diabetes in an urban community; 3. Describe challenges and facilitating factors in carrying out this project; 4. Identify the roles of community members, community based organizations, health service providers and academic institutions in developing and implementing the HEED project
Keywords: Community Participation, Community Health Advisor
Presenting author's disclosure statement:
Organization/institution whose products or services will be discussed: None
I do not have any significant financial interest/arrangement or affiliation with any organization/institution whose products or services are being discussed in this session.