CHEER: Transforming Health Disparities into Health Possibilities

描述（由申请人提供）：健康教育、经济赋权和研究联盟（CHEER） NCMHD卓越探索中心的主要任务是：参与以社区为基础的合作，完成研究并纳入社区资产和个人经济效益的作用，以推动孟菲斯和三角洲地区高危人群的健康生活方式。我们期望这些努力产生新的和创新的办法，以解决慢性病的高发问题，并减轻健康状况方面的种族/族裔不平等现象。我们建议发展和维护两个核心。这是行政核心和社区参与和外展核心。行政核心将：1)为解决少数群体健康和健康差异的社区研究提供科学、实践和行政领导；2)促进CHEER伙伴之间的合作研究，吸引新的研究人员参与健康差异的研究；3)确保CHEER发展成为一个有价值的、值得信赖的、社区、机构和全州范围的资源，以减轻健康差距和研究健康可能性的新模式。社区参与和外展核心将改善健康知识和健康促进行为，从而减少健康差距。它将发展新的和加强现有的合作伙伴关系，以提高当前和未来伙伴参与与预防糖尿病和心血管疾病等慢性病有关的互利社区参与性研究和循证健康促进活动的能力。该核心还将使社区组织能够获得资源，以维持以健康为重点的项目。CHEER将成为孟菲斯的宝贵资源，这座南部城市受到多种健康挑战的困扰，这些挑战在少数民族社区中尤为严重。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Consortium for Health Education, Economic Empowerment and Research (CHEER) NCMHD Exploratory Center of Excellence has as its primary mission to: engage in community-based collaborations to accomplish research and incorporate the role of community assets and personal economic efficacy in order to drive healthy lifestyles for at risk persons in Memphis and the Delta region. We expect these efforts to result in new and innovative approaches to address high rates of chronic illnesses and to mitigate racial/ethnic inequities in health status. We propose to develop and maintain two cores. These are the Administrative Core and the Community Engagement and Outreach Core. The Administrative Core will: 1) provide scientific, practice, and administrative leadership for community-based research addressing minority health and health disparities; 2) facilitate collaborative research among CHEER partners and attract hew researchers to the study of health disparities; and 3) ensure that CHEER develops into a valued, trusted, community-, institution-, and state-wide resource for mitigating health disparities and examining new models of health possibilities. The Community Engagement and Outreach Core will improve health knowledge and health promotion behaviors, thus reducing health disparities. It will develop new and strengthen existing collaborative partnerships to enhance the capacity of current and future partners to engage in mutually beneficial community-based participatory research and evidence-based health promotion activities relative to preventing chronic diseases such as diabetes and cardiovascular disease. The core will also empower community organizations to obtain resources to sustain health-focused programs. CHEER will serve as a valued resource for Memphis, a southern city that is plagued with multiple health challenges that are disproportionately experienced within ethnic minority communities.