Participatory Action Research (PAR): An Approach for Improving Black Women's Health in Rural and Remote Communities

Journal of Transcultural Nursing

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 349-357

  Etowa, Josephine B ^a   Bernard, Wanda Thomas ^a   Oyinsan, Bunmi ^b   Clow, Barbara ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Black women; community capacity building; health; interdisciplinary collaboration; participatory action research

Indexed keywords

CANADA; COOPERATION; EDUCATION; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; NEGRO; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PERSONNEL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUBLIC RELATIONS; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; RURAL HEALTH CARE; SOCIOECONOMICS; VULNERABLE POPULATION; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; INTERINSTITUTIONAL RELATIONS; MEDICALLY UNDERSERVED AREA; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; NOVA SCOTIA; PATIENT CARE TEAM; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; RESEARCH DESIGN; RESEARCH PERSONNEL; RISK FACTORS; RURAL HEALTH; RURAL HEALTH SERVICES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS; WOMEN; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 34848868744     PISSN: 10436596     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1043659607305195     Document Type: Article

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