'High Five to Healthy Living': A Health Intervention Program for Youth at an Inner City Community Center.
Providing developmental programs to inner-city youth is a key component to promoting healthy lifestyles in urban communities. In this study, 46 adolescents, predominately African American youth (age 11-14), participated in the 'High Five for Healthy Living' hygiene intervention program hosted at the...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Community Health Vol. 37; no. 1; pp. 1 - 10 |
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Feb2012
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