Two tools for well-being: health systems and communities.
Medical systems are tools of limited power to improve health status in modern societies. The associational tools of local communities are now the most important health-giving resources. Health professionals must learn the nature of these tools and understand their relation to and support of them.
McKnight
J L
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Institue for Policy Research, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA.
D018672:Community Health Planning / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans; D017146:Models, Organizational; D012962:Sociology, Medical; D013598:Systems Theory