Primary health care in the 21st century: Primary care providers and people's empowerment

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 386-390

  Van Olmen, Josefien ^a   Criel, Bart ^a   Devadasan, Narayanan ^b   Pariyo, George ^c   De Vos, Pol ^a   Van Damme, Wim ^a   Van Dormael, Monique ^a   Marchal, Bruno ^a   Kegels, Guy ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

^b Institute of Public Health   (India)

^c MAKERERE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Uganda)

Author keywords

Chronic disease; Editorial; Empowerment; Low income population; Physician patient relations; Primary health care

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY CARE; CONSULTATION; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EDITORIAL; EMPOWERMENT; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; INTERNET; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PATIENT ADVOCACY; PEER GROUP; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; SELF CARE; SELF HELP; SOCIAL STATUS;

CHRONIC DISEASE; HUMANS; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; POWER (PSYCHOLOGY); PRIMARY HEALTH CARE;

EID: 77949402361     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: 13653156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3156.2010.02475.x     Document Type: Editorial

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