Analysis and Action on the Environmental Determinants of Health and Dispar

描述（申请人提供）：拟议的环境健康核心扩大了在研究、研究教育和培训以及社区参与和外联方面社会促进健康公平的卓越协调中心的范围（CCE-SPHERE），一个由NIMHD资助的卓越中心（CoE），位于消除健康差异伙伴关系研究所（IPEHD），在南卡罗来纳州阿诺德公共卫生学院。它将利用欧洲委员会在以下方面的专门知识：让健康状况不均衡的人群参与，发展社区-大学健康研究伙伴关系，了解健康的社会决定因素在推动健康不均衡，包括环境健康不均衡方面所起的作用，以及培训来自这些健康状况不均衡人群的少数民族调查人员从事生物医学研究。在国立卫生研究院、国立少数民族健康和健康差异研究所的持续支持下，我们建议利用我们合作努力的优势，为更全面地了解环境因素和健康差异做出有意义的贡献，以实现健康公平。CCE-SPHERE的新重点将扩大欧洲委员会与受健康差异影响的有色人种社区接触的能力，重点关注南卡罗来纳州内的环境正义和环境健康差异问题。目前的应用需要在环境，社会和行为科学在USC-IPEHD和马里兰州（UMD）的大学和一个广阔的社区网络居民的专业知识进行环境，以社区为基础的参与和转化研究，重点是解决环境压力在南卡罗来纳州。作为环境健康核心的一部分，我们计划：1）通过南卡罗来纳州卫生和环境控制部（SCDHEC）环境公共卫生跟踪（EPHT）计划收集的数据，建立一个评估该州环境健康差异的计划; 2）评估社区对癌症风险的环境决定因素的看法以及南卡罗来纳州农村和城市社区的差异;和3）参与并培训代表环境正义社区和环境健康差异人群的社区组织成员使用区块评估方法，以帮助利益相关者识别生态压力源并进行干预，以解决负担，暴露和健康方面的差异。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The proposed environmental health core expands the scope of the Coordinating Center of Excellence in the Social Promotion of Health Equity in Research, Research Education and Training, and Community Engagement and Outreach (CCE-SPHERE), an NIMHD-funded Center of Excellence (CoE) housed in the Institute for Partnerships to Eliminate Health Disparities (IPEHD), at the University of South Carolina Arnold School of Public Health. It will build upon the CoE expertise in the engagement of health disparity populations, development of community-university health research partnerships, understanding the role that social determinants of health play in driving health disparities including environmental health disparities, and training minority investigators from these health disparity populations in biomedical research. With continued support from the National Institutes of Health, National Institute for Minority Health and Health Disparities, we propose to build upon the strengths of our collaborative efforts to meaningfully contribute to a more comprehensive understanding of environmental factors and health disparities in order to achieve health equity. The new emphasis of the CCE-SPHERE will expand the CoE's capacity to engage communities of color impacted by health disparities with a focus on environmental justice and environmental health disparity issues within the State of South Carolina. The current application takes resident expertise in environmental, social and behavioral science at USC-IPEHD and University of Maryland (UMD) and an expansive community network to conduct environmental, community-based participatory and translational research focused on addressing environmental stressors in South Carolina. As part of this Environmental Health Core, we plan to: 1) Build a program to assess environmental health disparities in the state through data collected by the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (SCDHEC) Environmental Public Health Tracking (EPHT) Program; 2) Assess community perception of environmental determinants of cancer risk and disparities in rural and urban communities in South Carolina; and 3) Engage and train members of community-based organizations that represent environmental justice communities and environmental health disparity populations in the use of the block assessment methodology to help stakeholders identify ecological stressors and intervene to address disparities in burden, exposure, and health.