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ArticleIntegrative medicine (Encinitas, Calif.)2018

Understanding Structure and Function as a Model for 21st-Century Health Care.

Jefrey S Bland

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Article in Integrative medicine (Encinitas, Calif.), 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Jefrey S Bland

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Medicine is now at a turning point. The important role of a broader application of the structure-function model in health care is gaining recognition and it may, in fact, be a defining principle that can guide the development of future health care systems. This concept can be applied to the search for solutions to complex health-related issues that span across multiple domains: molecules, cells, tissues, organs, and organ systems. I believe it can equally be applied to a search for solutions to the social issues of our modern era: individual empowerment, relationships between and among people, relationships between and among nations, and population-based global concerns.

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PMID31043921
PMCPMC6469446

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