Following the call: How providers make sense of their decisions to work in faith-based and secular urban community health centers

Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 944-957

  Curlin, Farr A ^a   Serrano, Karen D ^b   Baker, Matthew G ^c   Carricaburu, Sarah L ^d   Smucker, Douglas R ^e   Chin, Marshall H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c Medical and Surgical Specialists LLC   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Community health centers; Faith based organizations; Medically underserved area; Qualitative research; Religion

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CENTER; HUMAN; MALE; MOTIVATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RELIGION; URBAN POPULATION;

ADULT; COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICALLY UNDERSERVED AREA; MOTIVATION; RELIGION; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 33845610184     PISSN: 10492089     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/hpu.2006.0120     Document Type: Article

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