Building Healthy Communities Through Medical-religious Partnerships

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Building Healthy Communities Through Medical-religious Partnerships is written by William Daniel Hale and published by JHU Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0801863473 (ISBN 10) and 9780801863479 (ISBN 13).

This work describes an approach to the development of community-based health education and patient advocacy programmes targeted at disease prevention and management. Partnerships between health systems and religious congregations, the authors show, can be remarkably successful at bringing appropriate care to people who are often difficult to serve. Describing programmes based on a six-year collaboration between health care systems and religious organizations in Florida, the book offers guidance for religious and medical leaders interested in developing similar programmes in their congregations and communities.