Storytelling to access social context and advance health equity research

Preventive Medicine

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 394-397

  Banks, JoAnne ^a  

^a WINSTON SALEM STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Health equity research; Health promotion; Social determinants of health; Storytelling

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HEALTH EQUITY RESEARCH; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; MEDICAL RESEARCH; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; SOCIAL ASPECT; STORYTELLING; THEORY;

HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; NARRATION; RESEARCH DESIGN; RESEARCHER-SUBJECT RELATIONS;

EID: 84868303805     PISSN: 00917435     EISSN: 10960260     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2011.10.015     Document Type: Article

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