TRAINING RELIGIOUS LEADERS FOR CHURCH WORK IN RURAL COMMUNITIES

HEALS Hypertension Control Program: Training Church Members as Program Leaders

INTRODUCTION Health disparities related to cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) including stroke have remained higher in the African-Americans (AAs) than in other populations. HEALS is a faith-based hypertension (HTN) control program modified according to AA community needs, and delivered by the church-lay members called church health advisors (CHAs). This study examined the feasibility and acceptabi...

Messages from Church Leaders

treatment and cure, the closest co-operation is needed between physicians of the body, psychiatrists of the soul, and those called to be dispensers of the Word of God and of His Holy Spirit. That co-operation is not yet as close and well-informed on all sides as it should be, and for that reason is not yet as effective in ministering the healing power of God to sufferers as it should be and wil...

Rural Grocery Stores: Ownership Models That Work for Rural Communities

Church-Based Social Support and Religious Coping

The purpose of this study is twofold: to explore the nature of church-based social support, and to see whether support received in religious settings is related to the use of religious coping methods. The data come from a nationwide survey of members of the Presbyterian Church USA. Three dimensions of religious support are examined in detail: emotional support from church members, spiritual sup...

Educating religious leaders to create demand for medical male circumcision

Incident HIV infections refl ect the inadequacy of prevention strategies, and the failure to adequately use proven eff ective interventions. Following compelling evidence from three independent community trials in South Africa, Uganda, and Kenya, WHO and the Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) recommended that voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) should be part of a comprehensive HIV ...