As a part of Novant Health, Community Engagement exists to improve the health of our communities, one person at a time. Healthcare is our mission, community is our passion.
\nThere are two important dimensions of health that Community Engagement focuses on:<\/p>\n
1) Health equity<\/strong> 2) Upward mobility<\/strong> The Community Engagement vision is to provide programs and services that are strategically focused on achieving health equity \u2013 improving health and upward mobility in all communities, especially those that need it most.<\/p>\n As medical students at the Charlotte Campus, you will be given access to Novant Health leadership for community engagement and become involved in the healthcare system\u2019s initiatives and programs to address health equity. Students will have protected time to explore and experience what is going on in the Charlotte community.<\/p>\n In collaboration with the campus leadership, students can design their own experience with Charlotte resources or participate in Novant Health programs. These are the 2021 Community Engagement initiatives:<\/p>\n Community Care Cruiser<\/strong> MyCommunity<\/strong> Novant Health Cares<\/strong> One Charlotte Health Alliance<\/strong> Wellness Webinars<\/strong> Remarkable You Screenings<\/strong> As a part of Novant Health, Community Engagement exists to improve the health of our communities, one person at a time. Healthcare is our mission, community is our passion. There are two important dimensions of health that Community Engagement focuses on: 1) Health equity Health equity means that everyone has a fair and just opportunity … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115480,"featured_media":0,"parent":48,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"layout":"","cellInformation":"","apiCallInformation":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-337","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","odd"],"acf":[],"_links_to":[],"_links_to_target":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/md\/curriculum\/campus-profiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/md\/curriculum\/campus-profiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/md\/curriculum\/campus-profiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/md\/curriculum\/campus-profiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115480"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/md\/curriculum\/campus-profiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/md\/curriculum\/campus-profiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/337\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/md\/curriculum\/campus-profiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/48"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/md\/curriculum\/campus-profiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nHealth equity means that everyone has a fair and just opportunity to be healthy. This requires removing economic and social obstacles such as poverty and discrimination, and their consequences, including powerlessness and lack of access to good jobs with fair pay, quality education and housing, safe environments and health care.<\/p>\n
\nUpward mobility is the capacity to rise to a higher social or economic position. Communities affected by social and economic inequality often don\u2019t have the resources they need to be healthy and make healthy choices.<\/p>\nRole of Medical Students \u2013 Get Involved & Make a Difference<\/h2>\n
\nNH Community Care CruiserThe Community Care Cruiser, a 40-foot mobile clinic, provides remarkable healthcare outside the walls of Novant Health facilities. This cruiser provides vaccines to uninsured children in the greater Charlotte area. Mobile mammography is also an option.<\/p>\n
\nNovant Health MyCommunity lets you search for free or reduced-cost services like medical care, food and job training.<\/p>\n
\nNovant Health Cares is our simple, accessible and inclusive volunteer program that provides a variety of opportunities for Novant Health team members to get involved in the communities we serve. By leveraging teams across the organization, we can give back to those who need us most.<\/p>\n
\nNovant Health and Atrium Health have joined together with the Mecklenburg County Health Department to form the ONE Charlotte Health Alliance (OCHA). The purpose of OCHA is to provide needed medical care and wellness services to the members of the Charlotte community who need it most. http:\/\/www.oneclthealth.org\/<\/p>\n
\nWellness Webinars are short, engaging and easy-to-understand panel conversations featuring Novant Health and community experts.<\/p>\n
\nNovant Health Community Engagement offers Remarkable You screenings free of charge in the communities surrounding Novant Health medical centers. These screenings provide blood pressure, BMI, cholesterol, triglycerides and prediabetes information to help have a better indication of personal risk for heart disease, stroke and diabetes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"