Self-help and the patient/professional partnership.
The Surgeon General's Workshop on Self-Help and Public Health was convened to bring together professionals and lay people to develop recommendations and strategies related to how the Public Health Service might best address the goals of promoting a partnership between health care and self-help/mutual support systems for improved public health. The following four articles are adapted from presentations made at the workshop.
D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D012657:Self-Help Groups; D012944:Social Support; D014481:United States; D014492:United States Public Health Service