Patient-centredness: Meaning and propriety in the Botswana, African and non-Western contexts

African Journal of Primary Health Care and Family Medicine

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Setlhare, Vincent ^a   Couper, Ian ^b   Wright, Anne ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOTSWANA   (Botswana)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; BOTSWANA; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; HUMAN; PATIENT CARE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PROCEDURES;

AFRICA; BOTSWANA; CULTURE; HUMANS; PATIENT-CENTERED CARE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE;

EID: 84900829500     PISSN: 20712928     EISSN: 20712936     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4102/phcfm.v6i1.554     Document Type: Article

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