Reducing Overall Health Care Costs for a City Municipality: A Real Life Community Based Learning Model

Workplace Health and Safety

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 247-253

  Hodges, Linda C ^a   Harper, Tricia Satkowski ^a   Hall Barrow, Julie ^b   Tatom, Iris D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^b Rural Hospital Program   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CITY; COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING; COST CONTROL; ECONOMICS; EDUCATION; EVALUATION; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; NURSING EDUCATION; NURSING EVALUATION RESEARCH; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; PUBLIC RELATIONS; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; WORKMAN COMPENSATION;

ARKANSAS; CITIES; COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING; COMMUNITY HEALTH PLANNING; COST CONTROL; EDUCATION, NURSING, BACCALAUREATE; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; INTERINSTITUTIONAL RELATIONS; NURSING EVALUATION RESEARCH; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH SERVICES; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; PROGRAM EVALUATION; SCHOOLS, NURSING; URBAN HEALTH SERVICES; WORKERS' COMPENSATION;

EID: 3442902502     PISSN: 21650799     EISSN: 21650969     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/216507990405200606     Document Type: Article

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