Spirituality/Medicine Interface Project
What Do We Know about the Effectiveness of Faith-based Health Programs?
Abstract
“Some needs and hurts are so deep they will only respond to a mentor's touch or a pastor's prayer,” said President George W. Bush in his first inaugural address in January 2001.1 “Church and charity, synagogue and mosque lend our communities their humanity, and they will have an honored place in our plans and in our laws.”1 With these words President Bush introduced Americans to his plan to provide federal funding to faith-based organizations; later that month, the President signed an Executive Order creating the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives.2This content is limited to qualifying members.
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