Building a consensus on community health workers' scope of practice: Lessons from New York

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 102, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1981-1987

  Findley, Sally E ^a   Matos, Sergio ^a   Hicks, April L ^a   Campbell, Ayanna ^b   Moore, Addison ^b   Diaz, Diurka ^a  

^a Center for Population and Family Health ^*  (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CERTIFICATION; CONSENSUS; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HEALTH AUXILIARY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; PROFESSIONAL STANDARD; UNITED STATES; WORK;

ADULT; CERTIFICATION; COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKERS; CONSENSUS; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; JOB DESCRIPTION; MALE; NEW YORK; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; PROFESSIONAL ROLE;

EID: 84866340486     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: 15410048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2011.300566     Document Type: Article

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