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Designing social marketing strategies to increase African Americans' access to health promotion programs

Larry D Icard1, Joretha N Bourjolly, Nushina Siddiqui

  • 1Center for Intervention and Practice Research, School of Social Administration, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122, USA. Larry.Icard@temple.edu

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|September 16, 2003
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