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133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition
December 10-14, 2005
Philadelphia, PA
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133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition December 10-14, 2005 Philadelphia, PA |
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4298.1: Tuesday, December 13, 2005: 4:30 PM-6:00 PM | |||
Oral | |||
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| Increasingly, multi-sectoral collaboration is essential in assuring access to the conditions that support health. This session includes papers addressing leadership roles, multi-sector collaboration, and models of successful health promotion programming in faith-based setings. Common to all is the role and characteristics of leadership in building partnership relationships necessary for community-based health and health interventions. Participants will be exposed to models of congregation-based health assessments and health information strategies using innovative techonolgy. In addition, the papers provide cross cultural learning as they cover faith-based programs in the U.S. as wells in Africa and Egypt. | |||
| Learning Objectives: 1. Articulate the roles of religious leadership in woking to improve comunity health. 2. Describe effective principles in multi-sector and multi-faith collaborations aimed at increasing access to care and participation in participatory research. 3. Describe successful health promotion program models, such as health assessments and information libraries, used in faith-based settings. | |||
| REACH 2010 faith-in-health library initiative: Diabetes information taken to a higher power to eliminate health disparities Barbara A. Carlson, MLIS, Carl Grant, Pastor, Michael Frost, Rev, Jacquetta Grant, Florene Linnen, CHA, Gayenell Magwood, RN, MSN, PhD(Cand), Carolyn M. Jenkins, MSN, DrPH, Kim Odom, Jacqueline Grant | |||
Assessing the well-being of African Americans in churches: A pilot study ![[ Recorded presentation ]](/static/img/filetypes/16x16/wrf.gif){kind=small} Precilla Lorene Belin, PhD, MA, CHES, Kim Dobson Sydnor, PhD, Robert Jagers, PhD | |||
| Faith-based health initiatives: Panacea for sustainable healthcare development in developing countries- the EMD model Ifeolu Joseph Falegan, MD;CertFH;DipCS | |||
| Muslim and Christian leaders spearheading postabortion care in rural Egypt Sabry Ayman, MD, Nagwa Samir, MD, MObgyn, Ton Van der Velden, MD, MPH, Alaa Hassan, MBBCH, MPH, PhD | |||
| 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: | Black Caucus of Health Workers; Public Health Education and Health Promotion; Socialist Caucus | ||
| CE Credits: | CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing | ||
The 133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition (December 10-14, 2005) of APHA