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Patient empowerment can lead to improvements in health-care quality

Patient empowerment can lead to improvements in health-care quality

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Patient empowerment can lead to improvements in health-care quality

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Patient empowerment can lead to improvements in health-care quality

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Switzerland: World Health Organization

Journal title

Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2017-07, Vol.95 (7), p.489-490

Language

English

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Switzerland: World Health Organization

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Contents

In an interview, Frederico C Guanais argues that the expansion of primary care in the Americas is not enough to guarantee quality and effectiveness of health services. In a survey of middle-income countries across the Americas - Brazil, Colombia, El Salvador, Jamaica, Mexico and Panama - only about 40% of respondents rated the quality of care they...

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Patient empowerment can lead to improvements in health-care quality

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TN_cdi_pubmedcentral_primary_oai_pubmedcentral_nih_gov_5487978

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_pubmedcentral_primary_oai_pubmedcentral_nih_gov_5487978

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ISSN

0042-9686

E-ISSN

1564-0604

DOI

10.2471/BLT.17.030717

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