HealthyLifestyleAdvo cacy

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Lord, please give Your Membership Could Save A Life OLD   NORTH STATE MEDICAL SOCIETY Time

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Time to: Advance Healthy Lifestyle Advocacy- for people; in churches; in community organizations; in institutions of higher learning; in African-American homes; in our communities; and in our spirits and daily activities.

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Time to achieve the goals of HEALTHY LIFESTYLE ADVOCACY including: .

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Teaching medically-based, faith driven lifestyle behaviors that are wrapped in scripture and spiritual knowledge to create sustained, daily activities that promote health, longevity and prosperity in all parts of life; Goal 1

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Goal 2 2. Teaching the mechanics of establishing and maintaining successful Health Promotion Disease Management Clubs in churches with: a) congregational, health promotion goals including questions everyone must ask their physicians, and b) health messages that can be incorporated into weekly church services; and

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Goal 3 3. Instructing physicians on the appropriate protocols for use in treating African-American patients.

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ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO, OLD NORTH STATE MEDICAL SOCIETY Heard: The daunting reality of racism, denial of African Americans to appropriate medical care and pathetic debasement of eminently qualified Black physicians;

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Saw: devastating, inhumane and at times, experimental treatment perpetrated on African Americans solely on account of race and inability to pay for care; and

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Felt: Compelled to sacrifice at any cost on behalf of valued life.

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TODAY African American Physicians and affiliate members of Old North State Medical Society continue being a force for good . . . for healthier children, healthier families and a healthier community.

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REGARDING TOMORROW Old North State Medical Society Proclaims One hundred years from now, unto the fifth generation -

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People will Hear- ‘African Americans are among the healthiest people in the world;’

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See - ‘African Americans representing a minimum of thirty (30) per cent of all medical providers working in every level of the health care industry;’ and

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Feel - ‘African Americans combine Medicine and Spirituality to achieve the best health outcomes for all.’

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AND SO IT IS!!

Your Membership Could Save A Life  : 

Your Membership Could Save A Life   

I Corinthians 6: 19-2019: What? Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?20: For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.: 

I Corinthians 6: 19-20 19: What? Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? 20: For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.

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. . . there are three dimensions of any complete life . . . length, breath, and height.

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concern that causes one to push forward, to achieve his or her own goals and ambitions. Length: Inward concern for self …

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You have to have all three of these to have a complete life. Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. The Three Dimensions of a Complete Life Delivered at New Covenant Baptist Church, Chicago, Illinois, on 9 April 1967 Breath: Outward Concern for Others Height: Upward Reach For GOD

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SPEND TIME… PROMOTING HEALTH … IN EVERY PART OF LIFE Healthy Lifestyle Advocacy Through

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Through Bridging MEDICINE AND SPIRITUALITY HEALTHY LIFESTYLE ADVOCACY

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Why BRIDGE Medicine and Spirituality?  

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Does this serve the best interest of everyone?

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Is there a scriptural foundation for bringing the two together?

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Can the church become a leading advocate for the improved health of its members?  

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Can providers of medicine take a more active interest in supporting the church’s role as an advocate of healthier living?

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Where are the hindrances to broadening the churches role in contributing to the daily, weekly and monthly behavioral goals leading to improved health of its members?  

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Where are the greatest possibilities for advancing the church’s role in encouraging healthier behavior among its members?

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Are we standing at a crossroad between life and death . . . as individuals, as communities and as a race of people?

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Let’s look at more reasons WHY . . . Many lives are at stake According to the US Bureau of the Census, in 1996, 1,624,260 Million African Americans lived North Carolina. One out of every five of North Carolina’s residents is Black. African Americans are the second largest racial group in North Carolina. Our people live fewer years than White Americans.

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9 out of 10 minority residents are African American. African Americans born today have a life expectancy of about 70, typically dying 6-7 years earlier than White Americans.

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From 1990 to 1996 our death rates from AIDS 150% Diabetes 14%. African Americans Deaths due to: Diabetes are 3 times greater than Whites; Stroke are 2 times as likely as Whites; and Heart Disease 1.5 times as likely as Whites Kidney Disease 3 times as likely as Whites Prostate Cancer 3.5 times as likely as Whites Cervical Cancer more than 2 times as likely as Whites We die earlier when we could live longer!

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Many disease conditions are avoidable through practicing healthier lifestyles.

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LEADING CAUSES OF DEATH for BLACK MEN ARE DISEASES THAT CAN BE IMPACTED Heart Disease Cancer Unintentional Injuries Stroke AIDS Homicide Diabetes Pneumonia, Influenza What does your future hold?

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LEADING CAUSES OF DEATH for BLACK WOMEN ARE DISEASES THAT CAN BE IMPACTED Heart Disease Cancer Stroke Diabetes Unintentional Injuries AIDS Pneumonia, Influenza Homicide There are alternatives to early mortality.

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Among North Carolina children screened in 1996, a Black child was nearly 2.5 times as likely to have an abnormally high blood lead level. Four out of five infant deaths among African Americans in 1996 were attributed to immature or premature birth defects, the health status of the mother, Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, breathing conditions, and other conditions. No one is exempted from earlier mortality.

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. How many African-Americans are estimated to die this year from the leading causes of death? What other complications could result?

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What are some of the causes of these conditions? About how many African Americans are treated annually for each leading cause of death?  

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Could these conditions be avoided or better managed? How?  

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Can patients contribute to the disease progression? How do patients contribute to the disease progression?  

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Could setting up specific disease management clubs at churches improve one’s health?

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ADVOCATE Healthy Lifestyles Create Health Promotion Clubs Disease Management Clubs in Churches and other Community settings.

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Train church missionaries and health leaders to be …advocates for Healthier Lifestyles. Have Old North State Medical Society teach disease management strategy based on ethnic, cultural and racial indicators.

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Inspire Others! Set Goals! Applaud everyone’s talents and abilities! Get educated about specific diseases. Be ‘Strong in the Lord’ Believe in the people you serve. FACILITATE HEALTHY LIFESTYLE ADVOCACY

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Practice Trust, Appreciation, and Compassion, Spend Time Together, Manage Stress, Pace yourself, Be patient, Be Committed, And remember PEOPLE ARE IN PAIN. Keep a Vision of HEALTH AND WELLNESS

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Consult and be a Spokesperson to your colleagues and the faith-based community. The Healthy Lifestyle Advocate is a vital link in ongoing education about Healthy Lifestyles. Consider Being A Consultant or Program Coordinator

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Create An Advocacy Leadership Team Including You, Your pastor, Your doctor, and Your church leadership Reach out through your own network. Your neighbor’s pastor. Your Mother’s nurse. The minister that runs the homeless shelter in your town. And don’t forget your co-workers, your spouse, your children, your brothers and sisters, your best friend, your Sunday School teacher any anyone else you think of.

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Together we can: build bridges so that the flow of information, ideas, practical solutions, and spiritual strength will be encouraged and unimpeded. find links between each of us, every person and resource that improves the health and well being of our people. 3. inspire a spiritual home that will take this mission of advocacy for good health as part of its outreach to the community it serves. Create Disease Management Clubs &. Health Maintenance Clubs in Faith-Based Communities

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Give the Club a home? Start with your home church. Ask your pastor and the board of deacons or elders for a blessing and permission to meet at the church. Consider: how you will provide child care, how you will share food and refreshments, can people with wheelchairs and walkers get around easily, is it safe, are transportation and Parking available, is there a phone people can use, is there a contact you can reach easily. Identify times when your Club can meet. Have several choices of times.

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Say to him: `Long life to you! Good health to you and your household! And good health to all that is yours! 1 Samuel 25:6 Learn about the body, its systems, how it works and how to care correctly for it.

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Do you know how to recognize the signs and symptoms of imbalance and disease conditions in the body? Worship the LORD your God, and his blessing will be on your food and water. I will take away sickness from among you. Exodus 23:25

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Which questions should be asked at each visit to the doctor’s office. Jesus went through all the towns and villages, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the good news of the kingdom and healing every disease and sickness. Matthew 9:35

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Are you thoughtfully selecting providers of your health care? After all, no one ever hated his own body, but he feeds and cares for it, just as Christ does the church-- Ephesians 5:29 

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This will bring health to your body and nourishment to your bones. Proverbs 3:8 Understand the essentials of good health…nutrition, exercise, mental attitude, faith-based health fairs and more

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I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me . . . Whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me. Matthew 25:36,40 Emerge as the dedicated Disciples … ADVOCATES of Healthy Lifestyle with dignity and assurance that HIS will can be on earth as it is in heaven.

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Keep watch over yourselves and all the flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers. Be shepherds of the church of God, which he bought with his own blood. Act 20:28 Work in specific Disease Management Clubs – Hypertension, Diabetes, AIDS, Emotional Illness, Heart Disease, Obesity and more based on the needs of your congregation.

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And the prayer offered in faith will make the sick person well; the Lord will raise him up. If he has sinned, he will be forgiven. James 5:15 And prayer without works…. ….support one another; ….be gentle forces for good; ….problem solve as groups and individuals; ….reach beyond comfort to do as HE did.

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CAN YOU give your life today to health and those activities that will accrue to the fifth generation?

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Needs you to make the Difference on behalf of health and well-being! Unite with physicians today for life tomorrow and beyond. Your Membership could Save A Life

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For more information contact Old North State Medical Society P.O. Box 31588 Raleigh, North Carolina 27622 (919) 345-8797 (phone) (919 782 – 4620 (fax) E-mail ONSMS Medical Soc@aol.com www.ONSMS.org