Welcome to the website of the Minority Health Applied Research Center (MHARC) located at Johnson C. Smith University in Charlotte, NC. This center is intended as a platform to provide community-based paticipartory research to stimulate and develop new knowledge fcused on understanding and eventually eliminating disparities in health care and health outcomes for urban racial and ethnic minorities and other underserved populations.
Health disparity looks a the differenc in prevalence, morbidity, and mortality of certain diseases comparing the majority with certain goups. These groups may be categorized by race, ethnicity, gender, socioeconomic status, or disability( National Institutes of Health, 2006).
The primary stratagies of the MHARC are to
- conduct collaborative community/academic research that targets the multiple factors that contribute to health disparities;
- disseminate and translate research findings into culturally relevant stategies and actions to eliminate disparities; and
- provide advocacy and education to improve health outcmes of vulnerable populations.
