Culturally-Relevant Online Education Improves Health Workers’ Capacity and Intent to Address Cancer.
To address a desire for timely, medically-accurate cancer education in rural Alaska, ten culturally-relevant online learning modules were developed, implemented, and evaluated with, and for, Alaska’s Community Health Aides/Practitioners (CHA/Ps). The project was guided by the framework of Community-...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Community Health Vol. 43; no. 4; pp. 660 - 667 |
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