Washington, DC -- The Center for the Advancement of Health has received a one-year $195,000 grant from the W. K. Kellogg Foundation to identify a set of measures for assessing the capacity of American cities to offer good quality of life to minority populations.
In conjunction with the Department of Health and Social Behavior at the Harvard School of Public Health, the Center will select a number of measurement criteria based on recent sociological studies on urban inequality.
"This project will identify indicators and convene focus groups to help define criteria for evaluating best places for people of color to live, work and raise their families," says Barbara Krimgold, senior project director at the Center. "The goals of this project include developing methods that will permit ranking of urban areas within specific quality-of-life domains and an overall ranking of the best places to live for racial or ethnic minorities."
The Center for the Advancement of Health is an independent nonprofit organization funded by foundations to promote greater recognition of how psychological, social, behavioral, economic and environmental factors influence health and illness. The Center advocates the highest quality research and communicates it to the medical community and the public. The fundamental aim of the Center is to translate into policy and practice the growing body of evidence that can lead to improving and maintaining the health of individuals and the public.
The W.K. Kellogg Foundation was established in 1930 "to help people help themselves through the practical application of knowledge and resources to improve their quality of life and that of future generations." The Foundation's activities focus on a vision of a world in which each person has a sense of worth; accepts responsibility for self, family, community and societal well-being; and has the capacity to be productive and to help create nurturing families, responsive institutions and healthy communities.
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