Altruistic and economic measurements used for prevention health services: Faith community nursing program

•There is a gap in nursing knowledge about methods to communicate a prevention program’s worth.•The perception of a prevention program’s worth can be continually refined and influenced.•Measurements used for “valuing” (estimating worth) of prevention health programming, such as a faith community nursing, are both altruistic and economic.•Altruistic measures include story-telling through stories, documentation and activity reports. Economic measures include Net Benefits Analysis of a prevention program, Cost Benefit Analysis of a prevention intervention, Fixed and Variable Cost Percentage considerations. A theoretical model, “Prevention Program Valuing”, is presented.•This work is important to leverage funding for existing and new disease prevention health programming.

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