A community partnered-participatory research approach to reduce cancer disparities in South Los Angeles

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

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 471-476

  Vargas, Roberto ^a,d   Maxwell, Annette E ^b   Lucas Wright, Aziza ^c   Bazargan, Moshen ^d   Barlett, Carolyn ^e   Jones, Felica ^c   Brown, Anthony ^c   Forge, Nell ^d   Smith, James ^d   Vadgamma, Jay ^d   Jones, Loretta ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Healthy African American Families ^*  (United States)

^d DREW UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e LOS ANGELES COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH SERVICES   (United States)

Author keywords

Community based participatory research; Health disparities; Health promotion; Urban health services

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; COOPERATION; DELPHI STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH DISPARITY; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MENTAL STRESS; NEOPLASM; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH; PROCEDURES; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; PSYCHOLOGY; PUBLIC RELATIONS; UNITED STATES; UNIVERSITY;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; COMMUNITY-BASED PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH; COMMUNITY-INSTITUTIONAL RELATIONS; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; DELPHI TECHNIQUE; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; LOS ANGELES; NEOPLASMS; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; UNIVERSITIES; URBAN HEALTH SERVICES;

EID: 84925969610     PISSN: 15570541     EISSN: 1557055X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/cpr.2014.0063     Document Type: Article

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