The building blocks collaborative: Advancing a life course approach to health equity through multi-sector collaboration

Maternal and Child Health Journal

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 373-379

  Shrimali, Bina Patel ^a   Luginbuhl, Jessica ^a   Malin, Christina ^a   Flournoy, Rebecca ^a   Siegel, Anita ^a  

^a Alameda County Public Health Department   (United States)

Author keywords

Community collaborative; Health equity; Life course perspective; Local health department; Social determinants of health

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD WELFARE; COMMUNITY CARE; COOPERATION; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH DISPARITY; HUMAN; HUMAN DEVELOPMENT; INFANT WELFARE; MATERNAL WELFARE; METHODOLOGY; NEWBORN; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; POVERTY; SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH; STANDARD; UNITED STATES;

CALIFORNIA; CHILD; CHILD WELFARE; COMMUNITY NETWORKS; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; HEALTH PLAN IMPLEMENTATION; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMAN DEVELOPMENT; HUMANS; INFANT WELFARE; INFANT, NEWBORN; MATERNAL WELFARE; POVERTY AREAS; SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH;

EID: 84894899915     PISSN: 10927875     EISSN: 15736628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10995-013-1278-x     Document Type: Article

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