CHER Terms

PDF by the CDC outlining how organizations can adjust to promote health equity in practice.

Expanding on the capactiy/infrastructure of the health system to create sustainability in order to prolong community health effects.

Community Engagement Education and Trainings.

Database about effectiveness of treatments and interventions

Toolkit to engage and build the capacity of academic health centers and their surrounding communities in order to tackle health equities and justice.

Collaborative approach to research that engages all levels of the community/research team to draw on different strengths. The overall goal is to promote social change and to improve the health of the community.

A collaborative process between the researcher and community partner that creates and disseminates knowledge and creative expression with the goal of contributing to the discipline and strengthening the well-being of the community.

Involving people in a specific area with local redevelopment. This is simple to say but difficult to do: success will be achieved through a range of approaches and activities, and on a sliding scale of … Read more

Toolkit with video trainings that provides basic tools and resources for organizations completing Community Health Assessments and Community Health Improvement Plans.

Offers insight on how to develop a community health assessment and create an effective intervention.

Public health officials, healthcare workers, business owners, public servants, and other community members working together to promote improved population health.

Public health workers help communities identify health and social problems, and they plan and implement strategies to address these problems. Active community participation is instrumental to the success of this model.

A branch of Community Based Participatory Research that emphasizes true power sharing and collaboration in all phases of research.

Online toolkit with resources for organizations/people collaborating to build healthier communities and create social change.

Program on Ethnicity, Culture, and Health Outcomes, which recognizes the importance of community preparedness. This is a toolkit with information on community engagement and community health.

Academic institutions collaborate with various community organizations in order to provide information and integrate within the community to promote and develop health policy in order to boost overall community health.

Investigators must use an interpretive framework to understand why people come to be exposed to certain risks or preventative factors. A determination of the social conditions which cause individual risk to arise.

Demographic, health, and economic statistics of every county in the US.

People, organizations, or societies adopt new ideas or behaviors at different rates, and the rate of adoption is affected by some predictable factors.

NC health data and statistics. Also national and international health data