The East Side Village Health Worker Partnership: Integrating Research with Action to Reduce Health Disparities
Public Health ReportsPublished 1 November 2001
Amy J. Schulz
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The major goal of the East Side Village Health Worker Partnership is to address the social determinants of health on Detroit's east side, using a lay health advisor intervention approach.
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This article describes the work of the East Side Village Health Worker Partnership as a case study of an initiative that seeks to reduce the disproportionate health risks experienced by residents of Detroit's east side.The Partnership is a community-based participatory research and intervention collaboration among academia, public health practitioners, and the east
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