CHAPS Partnerships
Community Health and Programs Services (CHAPS) is committed to promoting
and maintaining traditional and nontraditional partnerships to maximize
community health promotion impact.
CHAPS partners are engaged at four levels:
- Networking to exchange information for mutual benefit.
- Coordinating information and altering activities to achieve a common
purpose.
- Cooperating and sharing resources to reach complementary goals.
- Collaborating to enhance the capacity to achieve like objectives.
The establishment of clear goals and objectives along with a shared
definition of public health problems is a critical factor in the development
of our partnerships.
Through meaningful collaborations, CHAPS has gained increased access to
priority populations and developed connections with key stakeholders and
change agents. Other outcomes include the extended reach into communities,
and the expanded expertise of CHAPS, its partners, and the communities that
are impacted by the partnerships. The list below highlights the many
partners CHAPS successfully engages to accomplish its mission.
American Medical Association
(AMA)*
CHAPS works with the American Medical Association (AMA) to reduce
disparities in health care and medical services and to help
physicians provide to their patients detailed information on
maintaining optimum health and changing unhealthy behaviors. The
partnership with the AMA also supports physicians as they practice a
greater professional role that extends to include a commitment to
influence the many social, economic, and environmental factors that
cause disease. Find out more about AMA's
physician resources for
eliminating health disparities.
Center for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia (CIDRZ)
In an effort to reduce the high incidence and mortality rates of
cervical cancer in Zambia, the Center for Infectious Disease Research in
Zambia’s (CIDRZ) Cervical Cancer Prevention Program initiated a “See and
Treat” intervention targeting HIV and non-HIV infected female patients
who are at high risk for cervical cancer, and who visit the
anti-retroviral clinics in Lusaka, Zambia. Since its inception in 2005,
more than 10,000 women have been screened, nine new clinics have been
established, three Zambian doctors and nine Zambian nurses have been
trained, and ten peer educators have been hired as part of this
innovative cervical cancer intervention.
A collaborative effort, led by a team of representatives from CHAPS
worked with CIDRZ to enhance existing primary and secondary prevention
activities related to cervical cancer among the women of Zambia. The
partnership also includes representatives from numerous CDC divisions
and offices, such as the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention
and Health Promotion (NCCDPHP), and the Office of Global Health. The
Cervical Cancer Prevention Program’s “See and Treat” initiative has
proven to be a successful approach. In the future, the partnership seeks
to enhance existing activities and eventually replicate the program in
other areas of Africa.
Directors of Health Promotion and
Education (DHPE)*
The Directors of Health Promotion and Education (DHPE) has an ongoing
partnership with CHAPS to support core public health functions related
to health promotion and public health education. Examples of partnership
activities include the following:
- The Worksite Health Promotion Initiative. This initiative
provides employers and health agencies with information about the
sources and effects of job stress on female, blue collar workers and
offers recommendations for occupational and health promotion efforts
in communities.
- The DHPE/CDC Internship Program for Students of Minority-Serving
Institutions. This program was established to strengthen the
development of minority students by creating partnerships between
historically black colleges and universities and Hispanic serving
institutions and the public health community.
- The Disparity Reducing Advances Project. This project seeks to
identify the most promising technological, clinical, and public
health advances for bringing health gains to poor and underserved
populations in order to accelerate the development and
implementation of these advances.
International Union for Health
Promotion and Education (IUHPE)*
In 2007, the International Union for Health Promotion and Education (IUHPE)
and
CHAPS partnered to implement a cooperative agreement through which a
comprehensive global health promotion and health education program
related to non-communicable disease prevention will be developed and
carried out in various regions and settings. The purpose of the program
is to strengthen the capacity of developing countries, prevent and
control diseases through evidence-based health promotion strategies, and
provide evidence-based knowledge and practical experience to communities
in need. This coordinated effort addresses some of the most pressing
issues of the 21st century and contributes to human development by
improving quality of life and creating more equitable social and
physical conditions for people across the globe.
The National Association of Chronic Disease Directors (NACDD)*
CHAPS works closely with the National Association of Chronic Disease
Directors (NACDD) to maintain and expand chronic disease health
promotion programs and services. NACDD links chronic disease program
directors in every state and U.S. territory and provides a national
forum focused on reducing the impact of chronic diseases and their risk
factors on states and communities nationwide. Some joint partnership
activities include: The National Association of Chronic Disease
Directors’ Conference and the Chronic Disease Indicators (CDI) Web
site—a cross-cutting site that serves as a gateway to state-specific
indicator data and data resources.
Society for Public
Health Education (SOPHE)*
The Society for Public Health Education (SOPHE), the nation’s only
independent professional organization dedicated to health education, has
a lengthy history of collaborating with CDC in disease prevention and
health promotion. Among the most recent SOPHE partnership efforts with
CHAPS is in the area of eliminating health disparities.
In 2005, SOPHE and CHAPS organized a national summit “Disparities
and Social Inequities: Framing a Transdisciplinary Research Agenda in
Health Education.” The presentations and resulting consensus agenda
for eliminating health disparities were published in SOPHE’s journals in
2006, featured in two national
webinars,*
and presented at public health conferences throughout the country.
Additionally, a supplement of Health Promotion Practice was
published in July 2006, featuring success stories and lessons learned
from CDC’s Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health (REACH)
program. SOPHE and REACH are now partnering in their first national
collaborative meeting, “Partnerships to Achieve Health Equity,” October
31—November 3, 2007 in Alexandria, VA.
YMCA of the USA
In an effort to address the burden of chronic disease throughout the
nation, the CDC and the YMCA of the USA (Y-USA) have formed a
cutting-edge partnership to further public health impact through the
development and implementation of community-based strategies. The
partnership strives to link CDC’s scientific and programmatic resources
and technical expertise with YMCAs nationally to deploy the most
promising, evidence-based community interventions to reduce the disease
burden and improve people’s health. Community Health and Program
Services (CHAPS) leads this collaborative endeavor to build community
capacity, embrace community diversity, improve health-related quality of
life, connect people and resources, prevent disease, and enhance public
health impact.
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Page last modified: April 9, 2008
Content source: Division of Adult
and Community Health, National
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