Enhancing low-income parents' capacities to promote their children's health: Education is not enough

Public Health Nursing

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 121-131

  Williamson, Deanna L ^a   Drummond, Jane ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b Faculty of Nursing   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHILD; CHILD PARENT RELATION; CHILD WELFARE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; POVERTY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ADULT; CHILD; CHILD WELFARE; FOCUS GROUPS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PARENTING; POVERTY;

EID: 0034153152     PISSN: 07371209     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1525-1446.2000.00121.x     Document Type: Article

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