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Intensive Home Visiting Programs: Implications for California Counties
Cheri Pies, MSW, DrPh, Associate Dean, UC Berkeley School of Public Health not support the effectiveness of home visiting as an isolated, individual intervention strategy. Although the evaluation results are generally discouraging, some overall themes emerge, particularly the need for clear program goals, well-trained and supervised staff, and a specified target population. Many of the benefits...
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BACKGROUND The gap between the highest and lowest life expectancies for race-county combinations in the United States is over 35 y. We divided the race-county combinations of the US population into eight distinct groups, referred to as the "eight Americas," to explore the causes of the disparities that can inform specific public health intervention policies and programs. METHODS AND FINDINGS ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: The Geographical Journal
سال: 1915
ISSN: 0016-7398
DOI: 10.2307/1780357