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