Community Organizing Goes to College: A Practice-Based Model to Implement Environmental Strategies to Reduce High-Risk Drinking on College Campuses

Health Promotion Practice

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 817-827

  Wagoner, Kimberly G ^a   Rhodes, Scott D ^a   Lentz, Ashley W ^a   Wolfson, Mark ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

alcohol use; college drinking; community organizing; environmental strategies

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL INTOXICATION; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY CARE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PEER GROUP; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); UNIVERSITY;

ALCOHOLIC INTOXICATION; COMMUNITY NETWORKS; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; PEER GROUP; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; UNIVERSITIES;

EID: 79952277869     PISSN: 15248399     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1524839909353726     Document Type: Article

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