Lessons learned from a community-academic initiative: The development of a core competency-based training for community-academic initiative community health workers

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 102, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 2372-2379

  Ruiz, Yumary ^a   Matos, Sergio ^b   Kapadia, Smiti ^c   Islam, Nadia ^c   Cusack, Arthur ^d   Kwong, Sylvia ^d   Trinh Shevrin, Chau ^c  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Community Health Worker Network of New York City ^*  (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d Charles B Wang Community Health Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY CARE; CURRICULUM; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HEALTH AUXILIARY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; PUBLIC RELATIONS; UNITED STATES; UNIVERSITY;

ADULT; COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES; COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKERS; CURRICULUM; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERINSTITUTIONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW YORK CITY; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; PROGRAM EVALUATION; UNIVERSITIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84869186771     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: 15410048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2011.300429     Document Type: Article

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