Swimming upstream: The challenges and rewards of evaluating efforts to address inequities and reduce health disparities

Evaluation and Program Planning

Volumn 38, Issue , 2013, Pages 1-12

  Hughes, Dana ^a   Docto, Lindsay ^a   Peters, Jessica ^b   Lamb, Anne Kelsey ^b   Brindis, Claire ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Regional Asthma Prevention and Management ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Disparities; Evaluation; Inequities; Policy; Public health

Indexed keywords

ASTHMA; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH RISK; PUBLIC HEALTH; RACIAL DISPARITY; SWIMMING;

ARTICLE; ASTHMA; ENVIRONMENT; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH DISPARITY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; RACE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

ASTHMA; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; DATA COLLECTION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ENVIRONMENT; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; PROGRAM EVALUATION; RESEARCH DESIGN; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84873945659     PISSN: 01497189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2013.01.004     Document Type: Article

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