Identifying health conditions, priorities, and relevant multilevel health promotion intervention strategies in African American churches: A faith community health needs assessment

- African American churches have many strengths to address health disparity issues.
- African American faith leaders were engaged in a health needs assessment (HNA).
- Diabetes and heart disease/stroke were identified as priority health issues.
- Important/feasible health promotion church intervention strategies were identified.
- A multilevel health promotion church intervention was designed from HNA findings.