Developing a Family Systems Approach to Rural Healthcare: Dealing with the "Heavy-User" Problem

Families, Systems and Health

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 291-302

  Larivaara, Pekka ^a   Väisänen, Erkki ^a   Wynne, Lyman C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FAMILY; FEMALE; FINLAND; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL SCHOOL; PSYCHIATRIST; RURAL HEALTH CARE; RURAL POPULATION;

EID: 0030444542     PISSN: 10917527     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/h0089918     Document Type: Article

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