Mapping a Message for Faith Leaders: Encouraging Community Health Promotion With Local Health Data
Mapping a Message for Faith Leaders: Encouraging Community Health Promotion With Local Health Data
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DOI：
10.1177/1524839908328995
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发表时间：
2010-11-01
影响因子：
1.9
通讯作者：
Schlemmer, Erin
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作者：
Kruger, Daniel J.;Lewis, Yvonne;Schlemmer, Erin
本研究报告使用基于社区的健康调查与信仰领袖分享当地健康信息。地理信息系统软件确定了距离宗教场所2公里（1.25英里）以内的调查对象。将每个礼拜场所周围社区的结果制成表格，并与城市和县级数据进行比较。向宗教领袖提交了针对社区的报告，描述了居住在周边地区的居民的健康特征，以协助确定令人关切的问题，并为发展卫生部解决这些问题提供机会。鼓励宗教领袖与其信仰团体的成员分享这一信息，并设法获得有关人士的更多信息。我们认为，让宗教领袖了解社区特定的健康信息，对于了解他们的声音在改善其信仰社区、周围社区和整个社区的健康结果方面的重要性至关重要。我们的目标是使信仰领袖有能力了解个人和社区的健康问题，并在地方一级充当与健康有关的信息和促进健康的渠道。教会健康小组为非裔美国青少年和年轻人制定了艾滋病毒和性传播感染预防计划。
This study reports the use of a community-based health survey to share local health information with faith leaders. Geographical information systems software identified survey respondents within 2 km (1.25 miles) of places of worship. Results were tabulated for the community surrounding each place of worship and were compared with city-and county-level data. Faith leaders were presented with community-specific reports describing the health attributes of residents who lived in the surrounding area, in order to assist with the identification issues of concern and opportunities to develop health ministries to address these issues. Faith leaders were encouraged to share this information with members of their faith community and develop means of obtaining additional information on the people of interest. We believe that engaging faith leaders with neighborhood-specific health information will be critical in providing an understanding of the importance of their voice in improving health outcomes of their faith community, the surrounding neighborhood, and the community at large. Our goal is to empower faith leaders to understand personal and community health issues and to act as a conduit for health-related information and health promotion at a local level. Church health teams developed an HIV and sexually transmitted infection prevention program for African American adolescents and young adults.