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Metro Boston Haitian REACH 2010 Community Survey
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The Metro Boston Haitian community and its surrounding communities are the fourth faster growing immigrant community in the United States behind New Jersey. There are many local and national adult surveys around the country that assess general knowledge, attitude and behavior of African Americans, Latino, and Asian on different health issues.
However, data that assess general knowledge, attitude and behaviors of Haitians around specific diseases are scant. If data are available, there are not available to public health practitioners, medical providers, the Haitian American community and others.
Reducing health disparities requires more than conducting pre-selected and packaged prevention and intervention activities. It also requires having a basic knowledge of how that population thinks about themselves, their environment and above all how they perceive specific diseases (i.e., HIV, diabetes, cancer etc) from their own point of reference meaning culture, religion and family. Therefore, there was a need to develop a framework and to begin assessing knowledge, attitude and behavior of the larger Metro Boston Haitian community.
The REACH 2010 Community Telephone survey was first conducted in 2001-2002. The survey reached more than 2700 Haitian participants. The analysis and results from the first survey are available.
The second REACH 2010 Community Telephone Survey was conducted in January 2007 through May 2007. It reached more than 1000 Haitian participants. Data are still being analyzed.
For more information about the results from both surveys, write or email to:
Eustache Jean-Louis, MD., MPH
Center for Community Health, Education & Research (CCHER)
420 Washington Street
Dorchester, Massachusetts 02124
Email: ejeanlouis@ccher.org
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