title: Exploration and Description of Faith-Based Health Resources: Findings Inform Advancing Holistic Health Care.
abstract: It is important to use all holistic resource opportunities in communities, such as integrative healing centers, and mind-body-spirit approaches to health. These holistic approaches may be realized through nontraditional avenues, such as faith-based resources. This article reports on an exploratory study that describes faith-based resources supporting holistic health in a southeastern region of the United States. A working definition for "faith-based health resources" was "ecumenical and interfaith community-based, open-access health resources that include in mission for service a reference to faith." Excluded from the definition were institutional services from hospitals, focused social services from area agencies, and federally funded services.
authors.affiliation: Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton.
authors.forename: Susan MacLeod
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Dyess
mesh_terms: D003695:Delivery of Health Care; D017144:Focus Groups; D006694:Holistic Health; D006801:Humans; D012068:Religion and Medicine; D015144:Southeastern United States; D026443:Spiritual Therapies