Can Half-Day Trainings Motivate Small Contractors to Address Lead Safety?

Health Promotion Practice

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 297-305

  Harrington, David ^a   Scholz, Peter ^a   Lomax, Geoffrey ^a   Stahlschmidt, Hans ^b   Vannoy, Jim ^c   Materna, Barbara ^b  

^a U S DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

^c PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

intervention; lead poisoning; lead safe best practices; occupational health; peer educator; small business

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; IN SERVICE TRAINING; LEAD POISONING; METHODOLOGY; MOTIVATION; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PEER GROUP; UNITED STATES;

CALIFORNIA; COMMERCE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; INSERVICE TRAINING; LEAD POISONING; MOTIVATION; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PEER GROUP; PROGRAM EVALUATION;

EID: 4644282976     PISSN: 15248399     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1524839903257764     Document Type: Article

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