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Figure 1 (below) illustrates the socioeconomic and environmental, behavioral, and biological risk
factors that can impact the selected Direct Services chronic disease focus areas (asthma,
cardiovascular disease, and diabetes).
Through this NOFA, the Foundation invites submissions for projects that address at least one of the
identified chronic diseases and uses a best practice, promising approach, or evidence-based
intervention that will address biological, behavioral and socio-economic risk factors associated with
the disease.
FIGURE 1: FACTORS THAT IMPACT DIRECT SERVICES CHRONIC DISEASE FOCUS AREAS
Unhealthy Diet
Physical Inactivity
Tobacco Use or
Exposure
Exposure to Airborne
Substances
All applicants are required to identify how both the organization and proposed program addresses
equity. Using an equity lens, you should consider the “root causes” or systemic barriers that impact
the health of your target population. For example, addressing equity can include any combination of
the following:
(1) focusing services based on the results of disaggregated data that determines the populations
most affected by health disparities; (2) recruiting and training staff to advance health equity; (3)
describing how populations most affected by health disparities are incorporated in the program
design, implementation, and evaluation; (4) describing how your organization addresses any of the
social determinants of health (e.g. poverty, education, unemployment, race/ethnicity and other
systemic barriers that impact health); or (5) describing how your organization establishes
partnerships to ensure diverse perspectives and sectors are represented to promote health and
prevent disease.
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Healthcare Georgia Foundation
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2019 Direct Services Grant Program NOFA
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Issued June 25, 2019
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