Leadership networks in Catholic parishes: Implications for implementation research in health

2014
Through two case studies of Catholic parishes in Massachusetts, this study explores the implications of leader-centered versus distributed leadership in Catholic parishes for the implementation of evidence-based health interventions. The two parishes involved in the study differ from each other in several ways. In the first, parishioners are less engaged in leadership activities at the decision-making level in the parish. A small group of lay volunteers work with the parish priest and other ordained leaders on parish activities. In the second parish, a large and active lay volunteer leadership have forged an organizational structure that allows more independence from the pastor's direct oversight. In this parish, lay volunteer leaders are the prime drivers of organizational programs and events. In 2012-2013, three types of networks were assessed at each parish: discussion, collaboration, and outside-of-parish ties. The contrasts between each parish include differences in density of collaboration, in frequency of discussion, and network centrality of the respective parish priests. We further identified key actors in the network structures at each parish. We discuss the implications of these findings for understanding organizational capacity in the context of health program implementation. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
SOCIAL SCIENCE & MEDICINE
页码:53-62|卷号:122
ISSN:0277-9536
收录类型
SSCI
发表日期
2014
学科领域
循证公共卫生
国家
美国
语种
英语
DOI
10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.10.012
其他关键词
AFRICAN-AMERICAN CHURCHES; SOCIAL NETWORK; DISTRIBUTED LEADERSHIP; INTERVENTIONS; CENTRALITY; PROMOTION; BODY; SOUL; ORGANIZATIONS; DISSEMINATION
EISSN
1873-5347
资助机构
National Institutes of Health Research Supplement to Promote Diversity in Health Research [U54CA156734]; National Institute on Minority Health and Health DisparitiesUnited States Department of Health & Human ServicesNational Institutes of Health (NIH) - USANIH National Institute on Minority Health & Health Disparities (NIMHD) [R21MD005976]; Centers for Disease Control and PreventionUnited States Department of Health & Human ServicesCenters for Disease Control & Prevention - USA; National Cancer Institute (Massachusetts Cancer Prevention and Control Research Network) [U48DP001946]; NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTEUnited States Department of Health & Human ServicesNational Institutes of Health (NIH) - USANIH National Cancer Institute (NCI) [U54CA156734, U54CA156732] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER; NATIONAL CENTER FOR CHRONIC DISEASE PREV AND HEALTH PROMOUnited States Department of Health & Human ServicesCenters for Disease Control & Prevention - USA [U48DP001946] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER; NATIONAL CENTER ON MINORITY HEALTH AND HEALTH DISPARITIESUnited States Department of Health & Human ServicesNational Institutes of Health (NIH) - USANIH National Institute on Minority Health & Health Disparities (NIMHD) [R21MD005976] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
资助信息
This work was supported in part by a National Institutes of Health Research Supplement to Promote Diversity in Health Research to the UMASS Boston/Dana-Farber Harvard Cancer Center Comprehensive Cancer Partnership Program (U54CA156734), and the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (R21MD005976), and through a cooperative agreement by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention with the National Cancer Institute (U48DP001946, Massachusetts Cancer Prevention and Control Research Network). The authors gratefully acknowledge the time and insights provided by study participants. We also acknowledge the contributions made by Elizabeth Gonzalez Suarez, Sean O'Malley, Aida Palencia, Lori-Anne Ramsey, Adan Colon-Carmona, Bianka Recinos, Sarfaraz Shaikh, Maria I. Torres, Tom Valente, and the Center for Survey Research at UMass Boston.
被引频次(WOS)
6
被引更新日期
2022-01
来源机构
University of Massachusetts System University of Massachusetts Boston Brown University Boston College Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine University of Massachusetts System University of Massachusetts Boston
关键词
USA Leadership networks Evidence-based interventions Social network analysis Faith-based organizations