Promotoras de Salud in a Father-Focused Nutrition and Physical Activity Program for Border Communities: Approaches and Lessons Learned from Collaboration

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Explores the role community health workers, or promotoras de salud, played in the design, implementation, and evaluation of a father-focused health program for rural Latino communities on the U.S.-Mexico border. Highlights some of the health and wellness issues for children and adults in the poor and underserved colonias along the U.S.-Mexico border.

Cassandra M. Johnson, Marlyn A. Allicock, Joseph R. Sharkey, et al.

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(18), 11660

09/2022

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Community health workers · Families · Hispanic or Latino · Immigrants · Poverty · Public health · Wellness, health promotion, and disease prevention · Texas