Eight years of building community partnerships and trust: The UCLA family medicine community-based participatory research experience

Academic Medicine

Volumn 84, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1426-1433

  Moreno, Gerardo ^a   Rodríguez, Michael A ^a   Lopez, Glenn A ^a   Bholat, Michelle A ^a   Dowling, Patrick T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASTHMA; COMMUNITY MEDICINE; DIABETES MELLITUS; FAMILY MEDICINE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEDICAL STUDENT; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRUST; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; ASTHMA; CHILD; COMMUNITY-BASED PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH; COMMUNITY-INSTITUTIONAL RELATIONS; DIABETES MELLITUS; FAMILY PRACTICE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; SCHOOLS, MEDICAL;

EID: 70349862861     PISSN: 10402446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ACM.0b013e3181b6c16a     Document Type: Article

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