Religious Leaders should be involved health education among the African American community.

March 5, 2024March 5, 2024 Discipline: Other

For this position paper, It’s to be communicated the importance of religious leaders in the Black community concerning health education, especially regarding cardiovascular disease. Please include information about health disparities and inequity in this community. Three supporting arguments include: Churches are more easily accessible to African Americans than hospitals or healthcare may be,  there is more trust in religious leaders than with doctors or health practitioners, and accountability is greater with the religious community and friends rather than with doctors. 

Counterarguments may include that physicians believe they are the only trusted source due to their years of medical school and relevant education and the ease of maintaining ideal heart health with diet and exercise. 
Some articles for reference may include:

Brewer, L . & Williams, D. We’ve Come This Far By Faith: The Role of Black Church in Public Health. American Journal of Public Health (2019). https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2018.304939

Ski, C., King-Shier, K., Thompson, D. Gender, socioeconomic and ethnic/racial disparities in cardiovascular disease: A time for change. International Journal of Cardiology. (2014). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijcard.2013.10.082


Brewer, L,. Bowie, J., Slusser, J., Scott., C. Cooper, L., Hayes, S., Patten, C., & Simms, M.   (2002). Religiosity/Spirituality and Cardiovascular Health: The American Heart Association Life’s Simple 7 in African Americans of the Jackson Heart Study. Journal of the American Heart Association. 2022;11:e024974 https://doi.org/10.1161/JAHA.121.024974

Powell-Wiley, T., Banks-RIchards, K., WIlliams-King, E., Tong, L., et. al. Churches as targets for cardiovascular disease prevention: comparison of genes, nutrition, exercise, wellness and spiritual growth (GoodNEWS) and Dallas County populations. Journal Public Health (Oxf). (2013); 35(1): 99–106.doi: 10.1093/pubmed/fds060

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