Understanding Women's Health Promotion and the Rural Church

Bibliographic Data

ID4687612
AuthorsRobyn Plunkett (Western University, London, Ontario, Canada), Beverly Leipert (Western University, London, Ontario, Canada), Joanne K Olson (0000-0002-9676-8481, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada), Joanne Olson (0000-0002-8702-3605, University of Alberta), Susan L Ray (Western University, London, Ontario, Canada)
Year2014
Volume24
Issue12
Pages1721-1731
Publication date2014-12-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueQualitative Health Research (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1049-7323 • E-ISSN: 1552-7557
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1049732314549025
PMID25201581
OpenAlexW2121668797
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited15

Many rural health resources are linked to community churches, which are often well attended, especially by rural women. We used interpretive phenomenology and the photovoice method to understand how the church influenced health promotion for rural women, whose health is often significantly compromised compared with the health of urban women. Our analysis of the data from individual interviews, group sessions, photographs, and logbooks suggested that the rural church significantly facilitated rural women's health promotion. The church supported the physical, intellectual, emotional, and spiritual health of rural women, facilitated social connectedness, and provided healthful opportunities to give and to receive. Implications included reframing religious places as health-promoting and socially inclusive places for rural women

Cognitive reframing · Economic growth · Health education · Health promotion · Photovoice · Public health · Rural area · Rural health · Social connectedness · Sociology · Community Health and Development · Medicine · Nursing · Participatory Visual Research Methods · Psychology · Social Psychology · Tourism, Volunteerism, and Development

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