Community-Based Approaches to Empowerment and Participatory Evaluation

Journal of Prevention and Intervention in the Community

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 1-4

  Suarez Balcazar, Yolanda ^a   Harper, Gary W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b DEPAUL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Collaboration; Community organizations; Empowerment and participatory evaluation

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY CARE; EVALUATION; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; MEDICAL LITERATURE; PUBLICATION; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; REVIEW; SKILL; SOCIOLOGY;

EID: 0347511770     PISSN: 10852352     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J005v26n02_01     Document Type: Review

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