Primary health care organizations - Through a conceptual and a political lens

Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 525-529

  Sturmberg, Joachim P ^a,b,c  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^c NONE   (Australia)

Author keywords

complex adaptive systems; health care policy; nonlinear dynamics; Pareto distribution; patient centred health care; primary health care organization

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; COMMUNITY CARE; HEALTH CARE NEED; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; POLITICS; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; PATIENT-CENTERED CARE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE;

EID: 79956087930     PISSN: 13561294     EISSN: 13652753     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2753.2011.01671.x     Document Type: Article

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