Emergency life support training for school children: exploring local implementation and outcomes of the Heartstart UK school programme within the context of the National Healthy School Standard
Abstract
This project discusses the implementation of Heartstart UK - an initiative co-ordinated by the British Heart Foundation to increase emergency life support training - in a number of schools in Cheshire.Citation
Chester: Centre for Public Health Research, University of Chester, 2005.Additional Links
http://www.chester.ac.uk/cphr/index.htmlType
ReportLanguage
enISBN
1902275691Sponsors
British Heart Foundation.Collections
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