Community health workers support community-based participatory research ethics: Lessons learned along the research-to-practice-to-community continuum

Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved

Volumn 23, Issue 4 SUPPL., 2012, Pages 77-87

  Smith, Selina A ^a   Blumenthal, Daniel S ^a  

^a MOREHOUSE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

African Americans; Cancer disparities; Colorectal cancer; Community health workers; Community based participatory research; Ethics; Translational research

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; COLORECTAL TUMOR; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EDUCATION; ETHICS; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH AUXILIARY; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH; PROFESSIONAL STANDARD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUBLIC RELATIONS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STATISTICS; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKERS; COMMUNITY-BASED PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH; COMMUNITY-INSTITUTIONAL RELATIONS; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FEMALE; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROFESSIONAL ROLE;

EID: 84872231657     PISSN: 10492089     EISSN: 15486869     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/hpu.2012.0156     Document Type: Article

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