Identifying health conditions, priorities, and relevant multilevel health promotion intervention strategies in African American churches: A faith community health needs assessment

Jannette Berkley-Patton, Carole Bowe Thompson, Andrea Bradley-Ewing, Marcie Berman, Alexandria Bauer, Delwyn Catley, Kathy Goggin, Eric Williams, Cassandra Wainright, Therese Petty and Natasha Aduloju-Ajijola

Evaluation and Program Planning, 2018, vol. 67, issue C, 19-28

Abstract: •African American churches have many strengths to address health disparity issues.•African American faith leaders were engaged in a health needs assessment (HNA).•Diabetes and heart disease/stroke were identified as priority health issues.•Important/feasible health promotion church intervention strategies were identified.•A multilevel health promotion church intervention was designed from HNA findings.

Keywords: African Americans; Health disparities; Health needs assessment; Faith-based; Churches; Health promotion intervention; Multilevel intervention; Health priorities (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2017.10.012

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