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International Journal of Nursing & Clinical Practices Volume 3 (2016), Article ID 3:IJNCP-191, 6 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.15344/2394-4978/2016/191
Case Study
A Social Ecological and Community-Engaged Perspective for Addressing Health Disparities Among Marshallese in Arkansas

Pearl Anna McElfish*, Jennifer Post and Brett Rowland

University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Northwest, Office of Community Health & Research, 1125 N. College Avenue, Fayetteville, AR 72703, USA
Dr. Pearl Anna McElfish, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Northwest, Office of Community Health & Research, 1125 N. College Avenue, Fayetteville, AR 72703, USA, Tel: (479)713-8680; E-mail: pamcelfish@uams.edu
01 April 2016; 28 July 2016; 30 July 2016
McElfish PA, Post J, Rowland B (2016) A Social Ecological and Community-Engaged Perspective for Addressing Health Disparities Among Marshallese in Arkansas. Int J Nurs Clin Pract 3: 191. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.15344/2394-4978/2016/191
The CBPR partnership support is provided by the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Translational Research Institute grant UL1TR000039, which is funded through the National Institutes of Health National Center for Research Resources and National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences. Some of the programs described were provided through grants from Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Wal-Mart Foundation, Sturgis Foundation, and Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute. The content of this paper is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the funders.
© 2016 McElfish et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

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