Asthma education: Are inner-city families getting the message?

Journal of Respiratory Diseases

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 630-635

  Marder, Dena A ^a   Cloutier, Michelle M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTHMA; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDUCATION PROGRAM; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; REVIEW; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 0032826379     PISSN: 0194259X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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