Assessing the capacity of health departments to engage in community-based participatory public health

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 93, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 472-476

  Parker, Edith ^a,e   Margolis, Lewis H ^b   Eng, Eugenia ^c   Henríquez Roldán, Carlos ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^d UNIVERSIDAD DE VALPARAÍSO   (Chile)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMMUNITY CARE; DATA ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; EMPLOYEE; ETHNIC GROUP; HEALTH PROGRAM; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MINORITY GROUP; PLANNING; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 0037369583     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.93.3.472     Document Type: Article

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