The Environmental Health/Home Safety Education Project: A Successful and Practical U.S.-Mexico Border Initiative

Health Promotion Practice

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 325-331

  Forster Cox, Susan C ^a   Mangadu, Thenral ^b   Jacquez, Benjamín ^a   Fullerton, Lynne ^c  

^a NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

home fire and food safety; promotoras; U.S. Mexico border health

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COMMUNITY CARE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FIRE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH EDUCATION; HOME ACCIDENT; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MEXICO; PUBLIC RELATIONS; SAFETY; UNITED STATES;

ACCIDENTS, HOME; COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES; COMMUNITY-INSTITUTIONAL RELATIONS; FEMALE; FIRES; FOOD CONTAMINATION; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MEXICO; NEW MEXICO; SAFETY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 78049377351     PISSN: 15248399     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1524839909341026     Document Type: Article

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