5012.0: Wednesday, October 24, 2001: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM

Poster Session

The Impact of Religion and Spirituality on Health

See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement.
Learning Objectives: N/A
Facilitator(s):C. Louise Brown, MS, RN
Board 1Implementing a community-based project to increase breast health awareness and screening among African American women in East Tennessee: Witnessing In Tennessee
Precilla Lorene Belin, PhD, MA, CHES
Board 2Partners for Healthy Lifestyles: A faith-based approach to decreasing racial disparities in cardiovascular mortality in a rural community
David P. Goodfriend, MD, MPH, Barbara M. Jackson, RN, MPH, CHES
Board 3Reaching and empowering African American diabetics via partnering the faith community with the medical community
Julia A. Hart, RN, Bruce Block, MD
Board 4Spiritual Maturity and Recovery from Addiction
Karen M. Perrin, PhD, MPH, RN, Steve Slavbic, BS, Tabia Henry, MPH
Board 5"Religiosity and risky sexual behavior in African American female adolescents: a prospective analysis"
Donna Hubbard McCree, PhD, MPH, RPh, Gina M. Wingood, ScD, MPH, Ralph J. DiClemente, PhD, Richard Crosby, PhD, Kim M. Williams, PhD, Adrian Liau, PhD, Kathy F. Harrington, MPH, Susan Davies, PhD, MPH
Board 6The Use of Ministers for Personal Problems: Findings from a Focus Group Study of African American Adults
Harold W. Neighbors, PhD, Linda Chatters, PhD, Robert J Taylor, Sophia Hussen, Persephone Taylor, Phyllis K. Stillman, BA, Rashid Njai, BA
Sponsor:Caucus on Public Health and the Faith Community
Cosponsors:Black Caucus of Health Workers; HIV/AIDS; Public Health Nursing
CE Credits:Chiropractic, Pharmacy, Social Work

The 129th Annual Meeting of APHA