Community health workers and community advocacy: Addressing health disparities

Journal of Community Health

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 417-424

  Ingram, Maia ^a   Sabo, Samantha ^a   Rothers, Janet ^a   Wennerstrom, Ashley ^a   De Zapien, Jill Guernsey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Advocacy; Community health worker; Health disparities; Leadership; Policy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMMUNITY CARE; EMPLOYMENT; ETHNIC AND RACIAL GROUPS; HEALTH AUXILIARY; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; LEADERSHIP; PATIENT CARE; POLITICAL PARTICIPATION; PUBLIC HEALTH; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIAL WORK; UNITED STATES; WORK ENVIRONMENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARIZONA; COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES; CONSUMER ADVOCACY; CONSUMER SATISFACTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PILOT PROJECTS; PUBLIC HEALTH PRACTICE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 53649110566     PISSN: 00945145     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10900-008-9111-y     Document Type: Article

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