Use of community-based participatory research to disseminate baseline results from a cardiovascular disease randomized community trial for Mexican Americans lving in a U.S.-Mexico border community

Education for Health: Change in Learning and Practice

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Balcazar, H ^a   Rosenthal, L ^b   De Heer, H ^b   Aguirre, M ^c   Flores, L ^d   Vasquez, E ^c   Duarte, M ^b   Schulz, L ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO   (United States)

^c Centro San Vicente Clinic   (United States)

^d EL PASO COMMUNITY COLLEGE   (United States)

^e NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiovascular disease; Community health workers; Community based participatory research; Hispanic; Mexican American; Randomized community trial; U.S. Mexico border

Indexed keywords

EID: 74249116911     PISSN: 13576283     EISSN: 14695804     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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