Impacting health disparities through community outreach: Utilizing the CLEAN look (Culture, Literacy, Education, Assessment, and Networking)

Cancer Control

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 70-77

  Meade, Cathy D ^a   Menard, Janelle ^a   Martinez, Dinorah ^a   Calvo, Arlene ^a  

^a H LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH SERVICE; PUBLIC HEALTH; REVIEW;

EID: 33846505520     PISSN: 10732748     EISSN: 15262359     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/107327480701400110     Document Type: Review

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