Empowerment evaluation as a social work strategy

Health and Social Work

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 120-127

  Secret, Mary ^a   Jordan, Audrey ^b   Ford, Janet ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Empowerment; HIV prevention programs; Participatory evaluation; Program evaluation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; COMMUNITY CARE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PRIMARY PREVENTION; SOCIAL WORK;

COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES; FEMALE; HEALTH PLANNING; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; POWER (PSYCHOLOGY); PRIMARY PREVENTION; PROGRAM EVALUATION; SOCIAL WORK;

EID: 0033126379     PISSN: 03607283     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hsw/24.2.120     Document Type: Article

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