Collaborative Community Empowerment: An Illustration of a Six-Step Process

Health Promotion Practice

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 256-265

  Yoo, Seunghyun ^a   Weed, Nathan E ^b   Lempa, Michele L ^b   Mbondo, Mwende ^b   Shada, Rachel E ^c   Goodman, Robert M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c LOUISIANA PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

collaborative process; community empowerment; community health; community intervention; community strategy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONSUMER; COOPERATION; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; POVERTY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; UNITED STATES; UNIVERSITY;

CONSUMER PARTICIPATION; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; GUIDELINES; HUMANS; LOUISIANA; POVERTY; POWER (PSYCHOLOGY); PUBLIC HEALTH PRACTICE; UNIVERSITIES;

EID: 4644303012     PISSN: 15248399     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1524839903257363     Document Type: Article

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