Strengthening Community Leadership: Evaluation Findings From the California Healthy Cities and Communities Program

Health Promotion Practice

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 170-179

  Kegler, Michelle C ^a   Norton, Barbara L ^b   Aronson, Robert E ^c  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO   (United States)

Author keywords

community capacity; community coalitions; community partnerships; evaluation; leadership development

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONSUMER; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LEADERSHIP; METHODOLOGY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; QUESTIONNAIRE; UNITED STATES; VULNERABLE POPULATION;

CALIFORNIA; COMMUNITY HEALTH PLANNING; CONSUMER PARTICIPATION; HEALTHY PEOPLE PROGRAMS; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; LEADERSHIP; MEDICALLY UNDERSERVED AREA; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESEARCH SUPPORT AS TOPIC; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS;

EID: 51649098803     PISSN: 15248399     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1524839906292180     Document Type: Article

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