“Taking the Bull by the Horns”: Four Principles to Align Public Health, Primary Care, and Community Efforts to Improve Rural Cancer Control

Journal of Rural Health

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 345-349

  Wheeler, Stephanie B ^a   Davis, Melinda M ^b  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b Oregon Health Science University School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

cancer prevention and control; health disparities; implementation science; participatory research; rural health

Indexed keywords

EARLY CANCER DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; NEOPLASM; PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PROCEDURES; PUBLIC HEALTH; RURAL POPULATION; STANDARDS; TRENDS;

COMMUNITY-BASED PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PUBLIC HEALTH; RURAL POPULATION;

EID: 85030627196     PISSN: 0890765X     EISSN: 17480361     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jrh.12263     Document Type: Note

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