Academic Health Centers: Sustaining the Vision
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Academic health centers and health care reform.
There is increasing support for the proposition that academic health centers have a duty to accept broad responsibility for the health of their communities. The Health of the Public program has proposed that centers become directly involved in the social-political process as advocates for reform of the health care system. Such engagement raises important issues about the roles and responsibilit...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Academic Medicine
سال: 2004
ISSN: 1040-2446
DOI: 10.1097/00001888-200411000-00001