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5106.0: Wednesday, November 10, 2004: 12:30 PM-2:00 PM | |||
Oral | |||
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| As part of a national effort to reduce racial and ethnic disparities in health, faith-based organizations have been the focus of interventions to promote health and prevent chronic diseases. The purpose of this session is to describe several faith-based initiatives to improve health that are related to healthy eating and physical activity and obesity as well as to look at the evaluation of such interventions. | |||
| Learning Objectives: 1. Describe 2 strategies used in faith-based organizations to promote health; 2. Discuss important factors in a successful intervention in a faith-based organization. | |||
| Annie B. Carr, MS, RD | |||
A challenge: Changing fitness and nutrition policies and behaviors in the faith community ![[ Recorded presentation ]](/static/img/filetypes/16x16/wrf.gif){kind=small} Charmaine Ruddock, BA, MS | |||
| Developing interventions for healthy eating and physical activity in Appalachian churches Carol Mangone, PhD, CHES, Irene Tessaro, DrPH, MSN, Sheila Rye, MS, CHES, David Goodrich, MS, Lindsey Parker, MS, Sam Zizzi, EdD, Irfan Parkar, MPH | |||
| Do faith based healthy lifestyle guidelines "pay off" in health outcomes: A comparison of African American/Blacks and Whites in a nation wide study Susanne B. Montgomery, PhD, MPH, Patti Herring, PhD, RN, Antronette K. Yancey, MD, MPH, W. Lawrence Beeson, MSPH, Terry Butler, DrPH, Synnove F. Knutsen, MD, MPH, PhD, Gary Fraser, MD, PhD | |||
| Process evaluation of a community-based dietary intervention Alton Hart, MD, MPH, Deborah Bowen, PhD | |||
| See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information. | |||
| Organized by: | Food and Nutrition | ||
| Endorsed by: | Alternative and Complementary Health Practices; Public Health Education and Health Promotion | ||
| CE Credits: | CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing, Nutrition | ||