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Latin-American challenges and opportunities in rheumatology
The importance of diseases to mankind is very similar worldwide. However, social and environmental issues, not to mention political and individual aspects, affect the prevalence and management of diseases and their outcomes. I present a brief and tentative comment to illustrate that the Latin-Americ...
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5301394/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28183344 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13075-017-1247-7 |
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| author | Rocha, Francisco Airton Castro |
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| description | The importance of diseases to mankind is very similar worldwide. However, social and environmental issues, not to mention political and individual aspects, affect the prevalence and management of diseases and their outcomes. I present a brief and tentative comment to illustrate that the Latin-American rheumatology community, despite relevant gains in recent years, has some challenges to face in order to improve patient care in our region. |
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| spelling | pubmed-53013942017-02-15 Latin-American challenges and opportunities in rheumatology Rocha, Francisco Airton Castro Arthritis Res Ther Commentary The importance of diseases to mankind is very similar worldwide. However, social and environmental issues, not to mention political and individual aspects, affect the prevalence and management of diseases and their outcomes. I present a brief and tentative comment to illustrate that the Latin-American rheumatology community, despite relevant gains in recent years, has some challenges to face in order to improve patient care in our region. BioMed Central 2017-02-10 2017 /pmc/articles/PMC5301394/ /pubmed/28183344 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13075-017-1247-7 Text en © The Author(s). 2017 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
| spellingShingle | Commentary Rocha, Francisco Airton Castro Latin-American challenges and opportunities in rheumatology |
| title | Latin-American challenges and opportunities in rheumatology |
| title_full | Latin-American challenges and opportunities in rheumatology |
| title_fullStr | Latin-American challenges and opportunities in rheumatology |
| title_full_unstemmed | Latin-American challenges and opportunities in rheumatology |
| title_short | Latin-American challenges and opportunities in rheumatology |
| title_sort | latin-american challenges and opportunities in rheumatology |
| topic | Commentary |
| url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5301394/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28183344 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13075-017-1247-7 |
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