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Outreach boosts disease prevention at U.S.-Mexico border
Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, August 15th, 2004
"Community health workers appear more and more convincingly to be a highly effective bridge between those who give and those who receive health care," say Jennifer B. Hunter, MPH, MA, and colleagues of the Southwest Center for Community Health Promotion at the Mel and Enid Zuckerman Arizona College of Public Health.
Their research appears in the journal Health Education & Behavior.
Nearly all the women, who lived in Douglas, Arizona, were Hispanic, the ethnic group...
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