Implementing a Natural Helper Lay Health Advisor Program: Lessons Learned from Unplanned Events

Health Promotion Practice

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 233-244

  Bishop, Caroline ^a   Earp, jo Anne ^b   Eng, Eugenia ^b   Lynch, Kathy S ^c  

^a Intl Baby Food Action Network   (Burkina Faso)

^b IL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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EID: 84992781435     PISSN: 15248399     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/152483990200300218     Document Type: Article

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