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Models of Health, Illness, and Health Care

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Many models of health and illness are available for use by family physicians as guides in delivering health care to their patients. A model is a belief system or plan for making sense of the puzzling phenomena confronting patients and physicians.

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  1. Department of Family Medicine, Oregon Health Sciences University, 97201, Portland, Oregon, USA

    Robert B. Taylor M.D. (Professor and Chairman) (Professor and Chairman)

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Miller, W.L. (1988). Models of Health, Illness, and Health Care. In: Taylor, R.B. (eds) Family Medicine. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-1998-7_4

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