Health literacy as a key for effective preventive medicine

Background: A preventive approach in health care aims to anticipate the natural history of the diseases and to define break points where the procedures may act to change future events, on the limit of the patient’s free will. Patient is an active agent and the main responsible for his/her own health...

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Main Authors: Paulo Santos, Luísa Sá, Luciana Couto, Alberto Hespanhol
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2017-01-01
Series:Cogent Social Sciences
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23311886.2017.1407522