Acknowledging Adult Bias: A Focus-Group Approach to Utilizing Beauty Salons as Health-Education Portals for Inner-City Adolescent Girls

Health Promotion Practice

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 205-213

  Lieberman, Alexis ^a   Harris, Diana ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

adolescent; African American; beautician; beauty salon; bias; health education; inner city; urban

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHILD BEHAVIOR; COSMETIC INDUSTRY; CULTURAL FACTOR; EDUCATION; ETHNOLOGY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH; HEALTH EDUCATION; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEDICAL STUDENT; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; TRUST; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; ATTITUDE; BEAUTY CULTURE; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INTERGENERATIONAL RELATIONS; MIDDLE AGED; PHILADELPHIA; RISK-TAKING; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; TRUST; URBAN HEALTH;

EID: 34250689959     PISSN: 15248399     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1524839906289819     Document Type: Article

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