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Session: Faith & Health in Practice
4115.0: Tuesday, November 07, 2006: 12:30 PM-2:00 PM
Roundtable
Faith & Health in Practice
This will be a roundtable presentation of project by faith communities providing health services or health promotion to members. Other organizations will present their project of word with faith communities.
Learning Objectives: participants will learn of various projects within the faith community of providing services to congregants with the "church as community" ideal Participants will learn of various programs who are reaching their population through churches
Table 1Improving Men's Education about Health Concerns: Can Church Based Programs Help?
Julie Gast, PhD, Terry Peak, PhD
Table 2Creating a health promotion and health prevention environment in a faith-based food pantry
Wambui Gathirua Mwangi, MPH, Joan Henkle, DNS, RN, Folake Odelowo, MPH candidate, Jennifer D. Taylor, MPH Candidate, Tiffany Robinson, MPH
Table 3Public health decision-making strategies in the faith community
Robert O. Walsh, MHE, PhD
Table 4Religiousness effects on mental and physical health: Review of key mediating pathways to explain the relationship
Jennifer A. Nolan, MS, PhD
Table 5Role of the faith community as a stakeholder in the childhood obesity epidemic
Bethann Witcher Cottrell, PhD, Christopher S. Holliday, MPH
Table 6A Lesson in Partnership the Faith Community and Reproductive Health
Maryjane Puffer, BSN, MPA
Table 7Adolescent girls, media messages, and finding the self
Judith Sullivan, RN, EdD
Table 8Healthy births, healthy futures: Preventing prematurity. A collaboration of the March of Dimes California chapter and faith-based organizations
Kynna N. Wright, PhD, MPH, CPNP, Carole Jordan-Harris, MD, MS, Kiko Malin, MPH, MSW
Table 9Youth Community Voices: Empowering youth in the faith community to improve perinatal outcomes
Connie A. Ritchey, Kimberlee Wyche-Etheridge, MD, MPH
Table 10March of Dimes collaboration with faith communities to reduce disparities in premature birth
Marie James, MHA, MHEd, Dolores T. Smith, MPH
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.
Organized by:Caucus on Public Health and the Faith Community
Endorsed by:Food and Nutrition; Maternal and Child Health

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