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Following the Call

November 1, 2006 | Journal Article

The recruitment and retention of well-trained, motivated health care providers in underserved communities is a longstanding problem that has led researchers and policy-makers to study providers' motivations for work among the underserved. This study ...

When Patients Choose Faith Over Medicine

January 10, 2005 | Journal Article

How physicians interpret and respond to medical conflicts that involve religion was the focus of the current investigation. Individual, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 21 physicians across a number of religious affiliations and the si ...

New York City-Based Hispanic Clergy Complete Mental Health Training Program to Better Serve Their Congregations

March 25, 2006 | Program Results Report

The Blanton-Peale Institute refined, strengthened and expanded its training program in mental health counseling for Hispanic pastors serving inner city congregations that it had developed with prior funding from RWJF.

1999 Conference Encourages Clergy to Work with Physicians to Improve Care of Dying Patients

April 29, 2003 | Program Results Report

In 1999, the Center to Improve Care of the Dying at George Washington University brought 40 physicians and clergy members together at a conference meant to address areas of common interest concerning the interfaith and interdisciplinary importance of end-of-life care.

Preventing Hysterectomy Among African-American Women

December 1, 2001 | Program Results Report

The Wholistic Health & Healing Association conducted a two-day forum in Sacramento, Calif., in April 2000 on uterine fibroids and African-American women.

If a Church Can Adopt a Needy Child, Why not a Recovering Addict?

May 31, 2000 | Program Results Report

The One Church-One Addict was established as a program that organizes and trains volunteer teams to support people in recovery from alcohol addiction and substance abuse and help them get necessary treatment.

Training Parish Nurses: Congregations Get a New Type of Ministry

July 31, 2000 | Program Results Report

Bay Area Health Ministries completed a video on the parish nurse and health ministry concepts - i.e., the addition of nurses to a traditional ministry staff in order to provide community nursing services to congregations and other clients.

Medical Care Often Clashes with Cultural/Religious Rituals at End-of-Life

September 30, 1998 | Program Results Report

The Park Ridge Center, Chicago, held a one-day seminar in 1997 in which experts, practitioners, and lay people explored the role of rituals in End-of-Life care in institutionalized settings.

Conference Offers Ways to Improve Care for Patients Facing the End of Life

December 31, 1998 | Program Results Report

In 1997, the Colorado Collaboration on End-of-Life Care (CCELC), a consortium of public and private groups, sponsored a conference with the goal of developing a replicable model of hospice/palliative care that can be used by an integrated delivery system to optimize appropriate interdisciplinary and holistic End-of-Life care.

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