Predictors and a framework for fostering community advocacy as a community health worker core function to eliminate health disparities

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 103, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Sabo, Samantha ^a   Ingram, Maia ^a   Reinschmidt, Kerstin M ^a   Schachter, Kenneth ^a   Jacobs, Laurel ^a   De Zapien, Jill Guernsey ^a   Robinson, Laurie ^b   Carvajal, Scott ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b El Rio Health Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONSUMER ADVOCACY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EDUCATION; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HEALTH AUXILIARY; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH; STANDARD; STATISTICS;

ADULT; COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKERS; COMMUNITY-BASED PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH; CONSUMER ADVOCACY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EVALUATION STUDIES AS TOPIC; FEMALE; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84879015493     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: 15410048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2012.301108     Document Type: Article

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