Strengthening preventive care programs: a permanent challenge for healthcare systems; lessons from PREVENIMSS México
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Strengthening preventive care programs: a permanent challenge for healthcare systems; lessons from PREVENIMSS México
BACKGROUND In 2001, the Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social (IMSS) carried out a major reorganization to provide comprehensive preventive care to reinforce primary care services through the PREVENIMSS program. This program divides the population into programmatic age groups that receive specific preventive services: children (0-9 years), adolescents (10-19 years), men (20-59 years), women (20-...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMC Public Health
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1471-2458
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-10-417