Promoting health at the community level: Thinking globally, acting locally

Childhood Obesity

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 19-22

  Economos, Christina D ^a   Tovar, Alison ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH CARE; CHILD WELFARE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; OBESITY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PUBLIC HEALTH; REVIEW; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH SERVICES; CHILD WELFARE; COMMUNITY HEALTH PLANNING; COMMUNITY-BASED PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAMS; OBESITY; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84856429828     PISSN: 21532168     EISSN: 21532176     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/chi.2011.0121     Document Type: Review

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