Bridging science and practice: The integrated model of community-based evaluation (imcbe)

Journal of Community Practice

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 37-65

  Telfair, Joseph ^a   Mulvihill, Beverly A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Community evaluators; IMCBE; Models; Sickle cell

Indexed keywords

EID: 84937329369     PISSN: 10705422     EISSN: 15433706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J125v07n03_03     Document Type: Article

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