Designing a Community-Based Lay Health Advisor Training Curriculum to Address Cancer Health Disparities

Health Promotion Practice

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 415-424

  Gwede, Clement K ^a,b,c   Ashley, Atalie A ^a,b   McGinnis, Kara ^a,b   Montiel Ishino, F Alejandro ^a,b   Standifer, Maisha ^a,b   Baldwin, Julie ^a,b   Williams, Coni ^a   Sneed, Kevin B ^a,b   Wathington, Deanna ^a,b   Dash Pitts, Lolita ^a   Green, B Lee ^a,c  

^a Center for Equal Health Community Engagement and Outreach Core   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^c H LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

community health advisors; community health workers; community based participatory research; lay health workers; training curriculum

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CURRICULUM; EARLY CANCER DIAGNOSIS; EDUCATION; FEMALE; FLORIDA; HEALTH AUXILIARY; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; MALE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; PROGRAM EVALUATION; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY HEALTH ADVISORS; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; LAY HEALTH WORKERS; TRAINING CURRICULUM; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKERS; COMMUNITY-BASED PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH; CURRICULUM; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FEMALE; FLORIDA; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICALLY UNDERSERVED AREA; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; PROGRAM EVALUATION;

COMMUNITY HEALTH ADVISORS; COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKERS; COMMUNITY-BASED PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH; LAY HEALTH WORKERS; TRAINING CURRICULUM;

EID: 84876955686     PISSN: 15248399     EISSN: 15526372     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1524839912458675     Document Type: Article

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