Chicago community-based asthma intervention trial: Feasibility of delivering peer education in an inner-city population

Chest

Volumn 116, Issue 4 SUPPL. 1, 1999, Pages 216S-223S

  Persky, Victoria ^a,b,c   Coover, Lenore ^a   Hernandez, Eva ^a,b   Contreras, Alicia ^a,b   Slezak, Julie ^a   Piorkowski, Julie ^a   Curtis, Luke ^a   Turyk, Mary ^a   Ramakrishnan, Viswanathan ^a   Scheff, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b Erie Family Health Center   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLERGEN;

AIR SAMPLING; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; DUST CONTROL; FAMILY HEALTH; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; MALE; PATIENT EDUCATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; UNITED STATES; URBAN HYGIENE; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 0032858521     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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