Personal responsibility versus responsible options: Health care, community health promotion, and the battle against chronic disease

Preventing Chronic Disease

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2007, Pages

  Betancourt, Joseph R ^a   Quinlan, Joan ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHRONIC DISEASE; COMMUNITY CARE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; NOTE; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE;

CHRONIC DISEASE; COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; HUMANS; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; PUBLIC HEALTH ADMINISTRATION;

EID: 34447100319     PISSN: 15451151     EISSN: 21665435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Editorial

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