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Faith-placed cardiovascular health promotion: a framework for contextual and organizational factors underlying
Zohara Sternberg1, Frederick E Munschauer, Shannon S Carrow
1The Jacobs Neurological Institute, Buffalo General Hospital, 100 High Street, Buffalo, NY 14203, USA. zs2@buffalo.edu
Abstract:
The objective of this study was to assess the literature on faith-placed cardiovascular health promotion in order to construct a framework of factors meant to facilitate effective program design. Data source was empirical studies on the contextual and organizational factors underlying faith-placed cardiovascular program performance. Study inclusion criteria were papers reported from 1984 to 2003 that include contextual and organizational variables. Success factors identified in the literature fall under the following clusters: faith support, secular support, partnership (and obstacles to it), faith organization capabilities, secular organization capabilities and caring intervention. Each cluster consists of several factors, whose relative weights cannot be ascertained from the present state of the literature. These clusters of factors can be interrelated through a simple framework that is useful in program design.
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