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Community-based health organizations; advocating for improved health.


RA445

2004-022993

0-7879-6486-7

Community-based health organizations; advocating for improved health.

Bayne Smith, Marcia et al.

Jossey-Bass, [c]2005

362 p.

$40.00 (pa)

Bayne Smith (urban studies, Queens College Queens College: see New York, City Univ. of. , City U. of New York New York, state, United States
New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of
) and colleagues affiliated with the Caribbean Women's Health Women's Health Definition

Women's health is the effect of gender on disease and health that encompasses a broad range of biological and psychosocial issues.
 Association in Brooklyn, NY, treat community-based health organizations (CBHOs) as alternatives to the present US healthcare system to meet the health needs of specific populations. They provide historical, organizational, and research contexts for community-based approaches, and models of CBHOs to improve health outcomes through community organizing The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject.
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