Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health for Communities

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The purpose of the program is to support local communities to strategically organize to implement and evaluate evidence-based policy, system, and environmental change interventions that eliminate racial and ethnic health disparities in chronic diseases. This program will support the transition of communities from the analysis of intervention results to the use of these results in facilitating health equity and policy change. This funding opportunity is unique in that it (1) allows a phased project period with key outcomes for each phase, (2) engages populations typically left out of the policy, systems, and environmental processes, thereby not realizing the full benefit of such public health actions, and (3) will close the gap in the impact of policy, systems, and environmental change interventions in communities of color. The REACH CORE program will run concurrently with the continuation of the REACH U.S. program in 2012 - 2017. The evidence-based policy, systems, and environmental change strategies that emerge from the REACH CORE program provide the needed complement to the evidence-based behavioral change and community interventions from REACH U.S. to most effectively eliminate racial and ethnic health disparities at the population level.

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