COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT/ OUTREACH CORE

概念框架。个人、社区和社会因素都会影响健康结果。解决农村健康差距的公共卫生战略必须包括各种活动，包括个人、人际网络、社区组织、环境以及最终的公共政策改革，这些都是可持续的健康变化和消除健康差距所必需的。为了反映这一点，促进健康的社会生态模式将指导首席执行官核心的工作，利用基于社区的参与性研究(CBPR)原则让社区参与进来。通过建立多个社区学术伙伴关系和注重能力建设活动，首席执行官核心将创建一个广泛的社区成员和组织网络，这些成员和组织将参与整个COE的活动以及未来基于社区的参与性研究(提高该区域为未来基于社区参与性研究吸引资金的能力)。还将举行一年一度的农村健康差距问题首脑会议，以促进跨地点/跨社区学习促进农村社区健康和健康差距的有效战略和最佳做法。

Conceptual Framework. Individual, community and societal factors all influence health outcomes. Public health strategies to address rural health disparities must include activities across the spectrum, including the individual, interpersonal networks, community organization, environmental, and ultimately public policy changes necessary for sustainable health change and elimination of health disparities. To reflect this, the socio-ecological model for health promotion will guide the work of the CEO Core, utilizing community-based participatory research (CBPR) principles to engage the community^ By establishing multiple community academic partnerships and focusing on capacity-building activities, the CEO Core will create a broad network of community members and organizations that will be engaged in the overall CoE's activities as well as future community-based participatory research (increasing the region's ability to attract funds for future CBPR-based projects). An annual Rural Health Disparities Summit will also be held to promote cross-site/cross-community learning about effective strategies and best practices for advancing the health of rural communities and health disparities.