Public health advocacy and chiropractic: a guide to helping your community reach its health objectives
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Public health advocacy and chiropractic: a guide to helping your community reach its health objectives.
OBJECTIVE Doctors of chiropractic (DCs) provide health educational and promotion efforts in the communities they serve by counseling patients at the individual level. This article outlines a method and model in which DCs can effectively serve as public health advocates within their community. DISCUSSION The social ecological model of health education and health promotion serves as an excellen...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Chiropractic Medicine
سال: 2008
ISSN: 1556-3707
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcme.2008.02.002