Developing a scale to measure synergy in health promotion partnerships

Global Health Promotion

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 36-44

  Jones, Jacky ^a   Barry, Margaret M ^b  

^a HEALTH SERVICE EXECUTIVE   (Ireland)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Health promotion partnerships; Scale development; Synergy

Indexed keywords

EID: 80051734375     PISSN: 17579759     EISSN: 17579767     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1757975911404762     Document Type: Article

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