Health and Wellness Programming in Faith-Based Organizations: A Description of a Nationwide Sample

Health Promotion Practice

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 122-131

  Bopp, Melissa ^a   Fallon, Elizabeth A ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

community organization; community based participatory research; health promotion; health research

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR ACTIVITY; OBESITY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; RELIGION; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR ACTIVITY; OBESITY; RELIGION; UNITED STATES;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84872050106     PISSN: 15248399     EISSN: 15526372     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1524839912446478     Document Type: Article

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