Development of Texas's First Chinese American Community Health Worker Certification for Family Health History-Based Cancer Prevention.
To address leading health organizations' calls for public health professionals to adopt family health history (FHH) into their practice, we developed the first community health worker Texas state-certification program focusing on FHH-based cancer prevention for Chinese Americans, for whom cancer is...
| Publicado en: | American Journal of Public Health Vol. 115; no. 2; pp. 138 - 142 |
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