Development of multidimensional scales to measure key leaders' perceptions of community capacity and organizational capacity for teen pregnancy prevention

Family and Community Health

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 307-319

  Griffin, S F ^a   Reininger, B M ^b   Parra Medina, D ^a   Evans, A E ^a   Sanderson, M ^b   Vincent, M L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT BROWNSVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

Community capacity; Key leaders; Teen pregnancy prevention

Indexed keywords

EID: 26244464231     PISSN: 01606379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003727-200510000-00004     Document Type: Article

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