Community Partnerships in Preventing Childhood Lead Poisoning.

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5

Community Action; Community Involvement; Community Support; Cooperative Programs; Demonstration Programs; Elementary Education; Environmental Education; Lead Poisoning; Partnerships in Education; Safety Education

0022-0892

Reviews a strategy for building community partnerships that have been instrumental in the development and implementation of a lead education program. In this model program, St. Louis University School of Public Health interacts with both private and public nonprofit community organizations. Grassroots community involvement in designing preventive interventions is found to be the most effective strategy. (AIM)

1997

EJ546486