Texas' community health workforce: From state health promotion policy to community-level practice

Preventing Chronic Disease

Volumn 2, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Nichols, Donna C ^a   Berrios, Cecilia ^a   Samar, Haroon ^a  

^a TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF STATE HEALTH SERVICES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMMUNITY CARE; HEALTH AUXILIARY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; LEGAL ASPECT; MANPOWER; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; UNITED STATES;

COMMUNITY HEALTH AIDES; COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; TEXAS;

EID: 84981215134     PISSN: 15451151     EISSN: 21665435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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