Involving the Southern rural church and students of the health professions in health education.

A health education and community organization operating in a rural North Carolina county enables students in public health, medicine, and nursing to satisfy their desire to develop skills that will enable them to provide health care in underserved communities. The Community Health Education and Resources Utilization Program is a demonstration project of the Department of Health Education, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, which is funded under title 1 of the Higher Education Act of 1965. Its objective is to increase the number of people in selected rural communities of 1,000 to 2,000 population who can provide correct information and appropriate counseling about the risks associated with hypertension, pregnancy, diabetes, and other health conditions that community residents identify as problems