Primary health care and family medicine at the core of health care: Challenges and priorities in how to further strengthen their potential

Frontiers in Medicine

Volumn 1, Issue OCT, 2014, Pages 1-1

  van Weel, Chris ^a,b  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Challenges; Community setting; Family medicine; Health care; Primary care

Indexed keywords

EID: 84952331814     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2296858X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmed.2014.00037     Document Type: Article

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