Conducting health interventions in black churches: a model for building effective partnerships.
This article offers a brief review of recent health promotion and disease prevention programs conducted in Black churches and identifies benefits and limitations of conducting interventions in these settings. In addition, a review of three current studies being conducted by our group at the Emory University Rollins School of Public Health provides a discussion of a successful model for forming and maintaining effective partnerships between Black churches and public health organizations.
Baskin
M L
ML
Department of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA. mbaskin@sph.emory.edu
Resnicow
K
K
Campbell
M K
MK
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