Assets based interventions: Evaluating and synthesizing evidence of the effectiveness of the assets based approach to health promotion

Health Assets in a Global Context: Theory, Methods, Action

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 77-98

  Hills, Marcia ^a   Carroll, Simon ^a   Desjardins, Sylvie ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Assets; Effectiveness framework; Evaluation; Evidence synthesis; Social capital

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876963708     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-5921-8_5     Document Type: Chapter

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