How will the Community Transformation Grant initiative address health disparities and health equity?
One of the overarching Healthy People 2020 goals, “achieve health equity, eliminate health disparities, and improve the health of all groups,” is central to Community Transformation Grants. Health disparities represent preventable differences in the burden of disease, disability, injury and violence, or in opportunities to achieve optimal health. Recipients will engage populations facing health disparities where they live, study, work, play, seek healthcare, and age to make the healthy choice the easy choice, and assure equitable opportunities to make healthful choices. All activities supported through this FOA must be designed to either achieve, or build community capacity to achieve, area-wide health improvements and reductions in health disparities. Activities should be based on a robust analysis of area health burden overall and across population subgroups (population subgroups may be defined by factors such as race or ethnicity, gender, age (e.g., youth, the elderly), education or
