Engaging Faith-Based Resources to Initiate and Support Diabetes Self-Management Among African Americans
| Autor: | Mae Clayton, Margaret T. Hartig, Belinda W. Nelson, Renee Frazier, Georgia Oliver, Beverly Williams-Cleaves, Patria Johnson |
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| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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Male Nursing (miscellaneous) media_common.quotation_subject Health Promotion Christianity Faith Young Adult Nursing Health care Humans Medicine Cooperative Behavior Aged media_common biology business.industry Religion and Medicine Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Social Support Middle Aged biology.organism_classification Tennessee Formal system Health equity Black or African American Self Care Alliance Health promotion Diabetes Mellitus Type 2 Organizational Case Studies Female Memphis business Delivery of Health Care Patient education |
| Zdroj: | Health Promotion Practice. 15:71S-82S |
| ISSN: | 1552-6372 1524-8399 |
| Popis: | Diabetes for Life (DFL), a project of Memphis Healthy Churches (MHC) and Common Table Health Alliance (CTHA; formerly Healthy Memphis Common Table [HMCT]), is a self-management program aimed at reducing health disparities among African Americans with type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in Memphis and Shelby County, Tennessee. This program is one of five national projects that constitute The Alliance to Reduce Disparities in Diabetes, a 5-year grant-funded initiative of The Merck Foundation. Our purpose is to describe the faith-based strategies supporting DFL made possible by linking with an established informal health system, MHC, created by Baptist Memorial Health Care. The MHC network engaged volunteer Church Health Representatives as educators and recruiters for DFL. The components of the DFL project and the effect on chronic disease management for the participants will be described. The stages of DFL recruitment and implementation from an open-access to a closed model involving six primary care practices created a formal health system. The involvement of CTHA, a regional health collaborative, created the opportunity for DFL to expand the pool of health care providers and then recognize the core of providers most engaged with DFL patients. This collaboration between MHC and HMCT led to the organization of the formal health network. |
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