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community health systems  

Definition

  • When examining how communities across the globe meet their members' health needs, certain patterns emerge. Common traits in community health systems are based on shared ideas about what health is and, related to that, what a health system should do, what it should include, and how it should be organized. [Source: Encyclopedia of Community: From the Village to the Virtual World; Community Health Systems]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-NTNVXWKX-9

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