Promoting medical self-care: Evaluation of a family intervention implemented in the primary health care by pharmacies

Family Practice

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 522-527

  Marklund, Bertil ^a,d   Almroth, Birgitta ^a   Schaffrath, Annmarie ^b   Gunnarsson, Birgitta ^b   Hoijer, Barbro ^c   Fridlund, Bengt ^a,b  

^a Primary Health Care Research and Development Unit   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^c Atomen Pharmacy   (Sweden)

^d Hospital Pharmacy   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Evaluation; Families; Medical problems; Medical self care; Primary health care

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FAMILY; FEMALE; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HOME CARE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFANT; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN; PEDIATRICS; PHARMACY; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; SELF CARE; TELEPHONE;

EVALUATION STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; INTERVENTION STUDIES; INTERVIEWS; MALE; PHARMACIES; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PROFESSIONAL-FAMILY RELATIONS; SELF CARE; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 0032849394     PISSN: 02632136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/fampra/16.5.522     Document Type: Article

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