Ethical challenges and how to develop ethics support in primary health care

Nursing Ethics

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 96-108

  Lillemoen, Lillian ^a,b   Pedersen, Reidar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b ØSTFOLD UNIVERSITY COLLEGE   (Norway)

Author keywords

Ethical challenges; ethics support; primary health care

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; MEDICAL ETHICS; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

ETHICS, NURSING; HUMANS; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

EID: 84873532783     PISSN: 09697330     EISSN: 14770989     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0969733012452687     Document Type: Article

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