Using Community Involvement Strategies in the Fight against Infant Mortality: Lessons from a Multisite Study of the National Healthy Start Experience

Health Promotion Practice

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 176-187

  Minkler, Meredith ^a   Thompson, Mildred ^b   Bell, Judith ^b   Rose, Kalima ^b   Redman, Dina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b PolicyLink   (United States)

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EID: 84992828855     PISSN: 15248399     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/152483990200300213     Document Type: Article

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