Men on the Move

描述（由申请人提供）：背景：公共卫生是我们作为一个社会，为确保人们健康所做的集体工作。虽然获得负担得起的优质医疗保健和健康行为显然与健康结果有关，但最近的工作提醒我们，作为一个领域，社会、经济和环境条件占美国死亡率的很大一部分。此外，描述健康所需条件（通常被称为社会决定因素，如生活、工作和社会条件、机构、系统和资源，如就业机会、教育、安全住房）与健康结果之间关系的文献已经证明，这些条件在不同人群中的不平等分布是造成美国和其他地方持续和普遍健康差距的重要因素。如果不关注这些情况，我们消除健康不平等的努力肯定会失败。概述：移动中的男性将利用基于社区的参与性行动研究方法为男性开发教育和经济机会。具体目标：1：制定一项计划，以改善佩米斯科特县男性获得教育和经济机会的机会(加强伙伴关系和连接社会资本，利用社区和研究人员对居民、非营利组织、地方政府官员和当地企业进行社区评估，收集数据；联合分析数据并制定具体目标和活动)和2：试点测试已开发的教育和经济发展计划（为社区居民提供实施计划和收集计划数据的培训）创新和传播：该计划将解决社区成员认为与几个社区健康问题相关的两个因素-教育和经济机会。我们的工作结果将在社区、地方和国家传播。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Background: Public health is what we, as a society, do collectively to ensure the conditions in which people can be healthy. While access to affordable and quality health care and health behaviors are clearly related to health outcomes, recent work has reminded us as a field that social, economic and environmental conditions account for a large portion of the mortality in the United States. Moreover, the literature describing the relationship between conditions needed for health, commonly referred to as social determinants (e.g., living, working and social conditions, institutions, systems, and resources such as employment opportunities, education, safe housing), and health outcomes has documented that the unequal distribution of these conditions across various populations is a significant contributor to persistent and pervasive health disparities in the U.S. and elsewhere, and that without attention to these conditions we will most surely fail in our efforts to eliminate health disparities. Overview: Men on the Move will develop educational and economic opportunities for men using community based participatory action research approaches. Specific Aims: 1: To develop a plan to improve access to educational and economic opportunities among men within Pemiscot County (enhance partnerships and bridging social capital, conduct community assessment of residents, nonprofit organizations, local government officials and local businesses using community and research personnel for data collection; jointly analyze data and develop specific objectives and activities) and 2: To pilot test the educational and economic development programs developed (provide training to community residents to implement programs and collect program data) Innovation and Dissemination: This program will address two factors community members have identified as being associated with several community health concerns - educational and economic opportunities. The findings from our work will be disseminated within the community and in local and national venues.