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Current Issues in Healthcare

Tuesday Concurrent Block 1

Forging Partnerships with Hospitals, Health Departments and Churches to Combat Health Disparities through Food, Faith, and Fitness Initiatives

Tuesday, October 29, 2024
10:30 AM – 11:30 AM ET
Location: Gatlin A1/A2
Earn 1 CME | 1 CNE/CE | 1 CPE
To address health inequities and promote healthy behaviors in African Americans, tapping into the faith community may be an effective and underutilized resource. In addition, forging partnerships with various entities - health departments, hospitals and lifestyle medicine organizations - presents a multifaceted approach to address these health inequities on a broader scale. This presentation will discuss various approaches and collaborations with health organizations to transform the well-being of people within the faith community. This presentation will highlight how collaborations between health systems, health departments, churches and lifestyle medicine organizations can help to address health disparities and how spirituality may be underutilized in helping people to achieve tremendous health outcomes over the long term.

Learning Objectives:

  • Describe how a hospital, health departments, the faith community and lifestyle medicine organizations can collaborate effectively for a common cause.
  • Demonstrate how faith communities can engage parishioners in prioritizing and transforming their health.
  • Describe how lifestyle medicine can address health disparities in a community and beyond.