title: Backing onto sacred ground.
abstract: It is widely recognized that the health of individuals and communities is determined by the interaction of physical, mental, social, and spiritual factors. Public health leaders can find precedent for the resulting holistic strategies in the collaboration with religious structures that characterized the early years of public health. The modern context is more pluralistic, democratic, and complex in terms of its institutional array of partners.
authors.affiliation: Interfaith Health Program at Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30030, USA. ggunder@emory.edu
authors.forename: G R
authors.initials: GR
authors.lastname: Gunderson
mesh_terms: D018672:Community Health Planning / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006694:Holistic Health; D006801:Humans; D015980:Public Health Practice; D012068:Religion and Medicine; D012931:Social Environment; D012945:Social Values; D014481:United States