Empowering Health Promotion:A Holistic Approach in Preventing Sexually Transmitted Infections Among First Nations and Inuit Adolescents in Canada

Journal of Holistic Nursing

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 254-266

  Steenbeek, Audrey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

aboriginal health; community health promotion; empowerment; reproductive health; sexually transmitted infections

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AMERICAN INDIAN; CANADA; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD HEALTH CARE; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; ESKIMO; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SERVICE; HOLISTIC NURSING; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MALE; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; NURSING; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PHILOSOPHY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REVIEW; SEXUAL EDUCATION; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; STANDARD;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT HEALTH SERVICES; ADOLESCENT PSYCHOLOGY; CANADA; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SERVICES, INDIGENOUS; HOLISTIC HEALTH; HOLISTIC NURSING; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; INUITS; MALE; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; SEX EDUCATION; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES;

EID: 4644340443     PISSN: 08980101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0898010104266714     Document Type: Article

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