Designing a successful health fair to promote individual, family, and community health

Journal of Community Health Nursing

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 1-14

  Dillon, Debra L ^a   Sternas, Kathleen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMMUNITY CARE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PROMOTION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NURSING; PREVENTIVE MEDICINE; QUESTIONNAIRE;

COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING; EXHIBITS; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH FAIRS; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; INTERPROFESSIONAL RELATIONS; PLANNING TECHNIQUES; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 0031041166     PISSN: 07370016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/s15327655jchn1401_1     Document Type: Article

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