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Health Education Research, Vol. 17, No. 2, 273, April 2002
© 2002 Oxford University Press

BOOK REVIEW

Needs Assessment in Public Health: A Practical Guide for Students and Professionals

Donna J. Petersen and Greg R. Alexander Kluwer Academic/Plenum, New York 2001 138 pp. ISBN 0-306-46530-2

Theresa L. Byrd

Assistant Professor of Behavioral Sciences and Public Health University of Texas Health Sciences Center Houston School of Public Health at El Paso El Paso, TX

Of the three core functions of public health, assessment, assurance and policy development, assessment may be the most dreaded and feared. This is not because public health professionals don't want to understand what is going on in their communities, but because . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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