Religious Organizations and Large-Scale Health Related Lifestyle Change Programs
Religious Organizations and Large-Scale Health Related Lifestyle Change Programs
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宗教组织和大规模健康相关生活方式改变计划
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1991
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B. L. Wells
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T. Lasater;R. Carleton;B. L. Wells
Abstract Religious organizations (ROs) offer several attributes as sites or as cooperative partners for chronic disease prevention programs. This article addresses a number of basic “principles” that may be used by health professionals for carefully and sensitively approaching ROs to obtain their cooperation in health promotion programs. Specific experiences from which these “principles” derive include the senior author's 10 years of working with religious organizations in Birmingham Alabama as program director of various parent education, high school dropout, and job training programs delivered as part of the Jefferson County Committee of Economic Opportunity, eight years of experience with ROs of Pawtucket Rhode Island as part of the Pawtucket Heart Health Program, and six years of experience with the Health and Religion Project involving 20 ROs scattered throughout both rural and urban (except Pawtucket) areas of Rhode Island. A high proportion of ROs can be involved in health promotion at some level, ...
