Changing Long-Held Beliefs Is Never Easy: A Proposal for Multimodal Approaches in Female Healthcare – An Integrative View

Advances in Predictive, Preventive and Personalised Medicine

Volumn 1, Issue , 2012, Pages 251-268

  Golubnitschaja, Olga ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Cardiovascular diseases; Diabetes; Economy; Individualised care; Patient profiling; Personalised medicine; Recommendation; Risk factors; Targeted prevention

Indexed keywords

EID: 85013758402     PISSN: 22113495     EISSN: 22113509     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-4602-2_14     Document Type: Chapter

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