Community—Academia Partnerships to Promote Nutrition in the Lower Mississippi Delta: Community Members' Perceptions of Effectiveness, Barriers, and Factors Related to Success

Health Promotion Practice

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 237-245

  Ndirangu, Murugi ^a   Yadrick, Kathy ^b   Bogle, Margaret L ^c   Graham Kresge, Susan ^b  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

^c U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

Author keywords

community based participatory research; community academia partnerships; nutrition interventions; rural

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONSUMER; COOPERATION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITIONAL DISORDER; PERCEPTION; PUBLIC RELATIONS; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; COMMUNITY HEALTH PLANNING; COMMUNITY-INSTITUTIONAL RELATIONS; CONSUMER PARTICIPATION; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITION DISORDERS; PERCEPTION; SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES;

EID: 57149089022     PISSN: 15248399     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1524839907300804     Document Type: Article

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