title: African American church health programs: what works?
abstract: The church is a community resource that can help address areas of health disparity for African Americans by offering programs focused on primary prevention. Use of a logic model as a program evaluation tool highlights church priorities and program linkages (problems, goals, objectives, activities, outputs, and outcomes), providing clear evidence about meeting program expectations. Faith community nurses can lead program development, easily incorporating logic models within programming efforts. Church-based programs that document positive outcomes enhance program usefulness and value as a community health resource.
authors.affiliation: Clemson University, South Carolina, USA.
authors.forename: Shirley M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Timmons
mesh_terms: D001741:Black or African American; D001294:Attitude to Health / Q000208:ethnology; D002835:Christianity; D003152:Community Health Nursing / Q000458:organization & administration*; D003159:Community-Institutional Relations; D003466:Cultural Characteristics; D006266:Health Education / Q000458:organization & administration; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000458:organization & administration*; D018939:Holistic Nursing / Q000458:organization & administration; D006801:Humans; D008019:Life Style / Q000208:ethnology; D024802:Nurse's Role; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care; D012068:Religion and Medicine; D014481:United States