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Tailoring Health Interventions: An Approach for Working with African American Churches to Reduce Cancer Health Disparities

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African Americans continue to experience disproportionately high rates of mortality and morbidity due to cancer. Understanding the issues, addressing the causes, and improving survival rates among African Americans will require a composite of strategies. Approaches that address the unique barriers, beliefs, and concerns of African Americans are needed.

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    Marlyn Allicock & Joan Walsh

  2. Department of Nutrition, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA

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Allicock, M., Campbell, M.K., Walsh, J. (2011). Tailoring Health Interventions: An Approach for Working with African American Churches to Reduce Cancer Health Disparities. In: Lemelle, A., Reed, W., Taylor, S. (eds) Handbook of African American Health. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9616-9_16

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