Building a navigation system to reduce cancer disparities among urban black older adults

Progress in Community Health Partnerships: Research, Education, and Action

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 209-218

  Bone, Lee R ^a   Edington, Kristen ^a   Rosenberg, Jessica ^a   Wenzel, Jennifer ^b   Garza, Mary A ^c   Klein, Catherine ^d   Schmitt, Lisa ^a   Ford, Jean G ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NURSING   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS BAYVIEW MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer disparities; Community health workers (CHWS) navigators; Community based participatory research (CBPR); Older adults; Patient navigation services; Urban african american

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EDUCATION; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH AUXILIARY; HEALTH DISPARITY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NEOPLASM; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH; PUBLIC RELATIONS; UNITED STATES; UNIVERSITY; URBAN POPULATION;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGE FACTORS; BALTIMORE; COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKERS; COMMUNITY-BASED PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH; COMMUNITY-INSTITUTIONAL RELATIONS; DECISION MAKING; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASMS; UNIVERSITIES; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 84883886700     PISSN: 15570541     EISSN: 1557055X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/cpr.2013.0018     Document Type: Article

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