Contributions of community involvement to organizational-level empowerment: The federal healthy start experience

Health Education and Behavior

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 783-807

  Minkler, Meredith ^a   Thompson, Mildred ^b   Bell, Judith ^b   Rose, Kalima ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b PolicyLink   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR; CASE REPORT; CONSUMER; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CENTER; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMAN; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; REVIEW; UNITED STATES;

CASE REPORT; COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS; COMMUNITY HEALTH PLANNING; CONSUMER PARTICIPATION; HUMAN; MODELS, ORGANIZATIONAL; ORGANIZATIONAL CASE STUDIES; POWER (PSYCHOLOGY); PROGRAM EVALUATION; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES HEALTH RESOURCES AND SERVICES ADMINISTRATION;

EID: 0035650652     PISSN: 10901981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/109019810102800609     Document Type: Article

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