Community Health Status Indicators Project: The development of a national approach to community health

Preventing Chronic Disease

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Metzler, Marilyn ^a   Kanarek, Norma ^b   Highsmith, Keisher ^c   Bialek, Ron ^d   Straw, Roger ^c   Auston, Ione ^e   Stanley, Jennifer ^d   Klein, Richard ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

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

^c HEALTH RESOURCES AND SERVICES ADMINISTRATION   (United States)

^d Public Health Foundation   (United States)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FACTUAL DATABASE; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INTERNET; METHODOLOGY; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; UNITED STATES;

COMMUNITY HEALTH PLANNING; DATABASES, FACTUAL; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; INTERNET; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICES; SMALL-AREA ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84978427873     PISSN: 15451151     EISSN: 21665435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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