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Faith-Based Organizations, Science, and the Pursuit of Health
- Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 22, Number 1, February 2011
- pp. 50-55
- 10.1353/hpu.2011.0008
- Article
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Over the last three decades, there has been increasing interest in the role that faith-based organizations (FBOs) can play in promoting health and health care access among underserved populations. Although the research literature on church-based health interventions is growing, there are relatively few rigorous evaluations of their effectiveness in addressing health and health care outcomes. Establishing a national faith-based health research network is an excellent opportunity to create an evaluative infrastructure and generate new research on health programs and their effectiveness in FBO settings.