The chronic pediatric patient: more than a sick body.

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Nelva Denise Flores Manzano

Abstract

The notion of disease has always been a debated issue in health areas. However, it is a fact that a sick person implies consequences
for the family, even when it comes to a short-term discomfort. Hence the importance of considering what happens when it comes to a
chronic problem and patient care is it becomes hard work for his family and exhausting for the sick. Mtra.Nelva Denise Flores Manzano,
a full-time researcher at UMSNH, told us presents a broad perspective of the child patient with chronic disease, in where it highlights their interaction
in the main spheres of their daily life, and it offers us a new perspective of attention to them.

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Flores Manzano, N. D. . (2005). The chronic pediatric patient: more than a sick body. Uaricha, 2(4), 55-57. http://www.revistauaricha.umich.mx/ojs_uaricha/index.php/urp/article/view/537

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