Unidos: Linking Individuals to Social Determinant and Community Health Services

Summary

For 19 years, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention-funded Arizona Prevention Research Center (AzPRC) has been engaged in academic community collaborative research to reduce chronic disease health disparities among the Latino border communities in Arizona. Our research project, Unidos: Linking Individuals' to Social Determinant and Community Health Services, will result in a model Community-Clinical Linkage intervention to reduce chronic disease risk among Latinos in Arizona. Further, the investigators expect this intervention model to be applicable in other regions and populations. To execute this research, the AzPRC will implement the intervention in partnership with county health departments and Federally Qualified Health Centers. In Unidos the county/community-based CHWs will: 1) support and connect participants to health promotion resources; 2) provide individual and group-based support guided by a novel framework for understanding Latino's health advantages, the sociocultural resiliency model; and, 3) leverage community resources to help individuals address SDH-related needs.

Conditions

• Chronic Disease
• Community Health Workers

Interventions

OTHER

Unidos

The investigators will collaborate with our community partners to implement and evaluate a Community-Clinical Linkage (CCL) model in which Community Health Workers (CHWs) connect individuals to social determinant and community health services and build sociocultural resilience through CHW-facilitated individual and group support. As a public health practice-based study that incorporates evidence-based strategies, the investigators seek to establish Unidos effectiveness in Arizona counties with the highest percentage of Latinos of Mexican origin (Yuma, Pima, Santa Cruz, and Maricopa). Unidos CHWs, based in local health departments, will use evidence-based strategies to address three elements that are important in addressing chronic disease risk: 1) health promotion resources and programs; 2) individual and group-based social support; and 3) leveraging community resources to address social determinants of health.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• El Rio Community Health Center

  collaborator OTHER

• Pima County Health Department

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Yuma County Health District

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Sunset Community Health Center

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Maricopa County Health Department

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Valle del Sol Community Health

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Mariposa Community Health Center

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• University of Arizona

  lead OTHER

Eligibility

Min Age

18 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2020-09-16

Primary Completion

2023-12-31

Completion

2024-09-30

Countries

• United States

Study Locations