title: Hitting the mark in community health outreach: what counts?
abstract: This article describes a nurse-managed community health outreach project, at the Health Promotion Center (HPC) of Fairfield University School of Nursing, to prevent cardiovascular disease in an inner-city community. Flexibility in the project's grant funding has enabled the HPC to use a customer-oriented approach to develop programs. The article details the application of community health nursing and quality management practices to the development of HPC's cardiovascular-disease-screening program.
authors.affiliation: James W. Gibson Community Health Outreach Program, Health Promotion Center, Fairfield University School of Nursing, Bridgeport, CT, USA.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Morrissey-Ross
authors.forename: P A
authors.initials: PA
authors.lastname: Greiner
mesh_terms: D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases / Q000451:nursing / Q000517:prevention & control*; D003152:Community Health Nursing / Q000458:organization & administration*; D003237:Connecticut; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand; D006801:Humans; D008403:Mass Screening; D015397:Program Evaluation; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care; D012307:Risk Factors; D019037:Urban Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D014505:Urban Population