Designing an evaluation for a multiple-strategy community intervention: The North Coast Stay on Your Feet program

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 115-119

  Van Beurden, Eric ^a   Kempton, Anne ^a   Sladden, Tim ^a,b   Garner, Everald ^a  

^a North Coast Public Health Unit   (Australia)

^b Northern Rivers Institute of Health and Research   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; AUSTRALIA; FALLING; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH PROMOTION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MEDICAL LITERATURE; PUBLICATION; TELEPHONE;

EID: 0031829941     PISSN: 13260200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-842X.1998.tb01154.x     Document Type: Article

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