Strategies to empower communities to reduce health disparities

Health Affairs

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 1424-1428

  Thompson, Beti ^a   Molina, Yamile ^a   Viswanath, Kasisomayajula ^b,c   Warnecke, Richard ^d   Prelip, Michael L ^e  

^a Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^b DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMPOWERMENT; HEALTH DISPARITY; HEALTH EQUITY; HUMAN; PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH; RESIDENT; BEHAVIOR; COMMUNITY CARE; FEMALE; MALE; ORGANIZATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PUBLIC RELATIONS; UNITED STATES;

COMMUNITY NETWORKS; COMMUNITY-BASED PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH; COMMUNITY-INSTITUTIONAL RELATIONS; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; MALE; ORGANIZATIONAL INNOVATION; POWER (PSYCHOLOGY); UNITED STATES;

EID: 84982261456     PISSN: 02782715     EISSN: 15445208     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.2015.1364     Document Type: Article

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