Ana Escoval

Dec 17, 2023 | mdpi.com | Carlos Martins |Ana Escoval |Manuel Lopes |Susana Mendonça

1. IntroductionIn recent years, shifts in demographic patterns and the prevalence of chronic diseases have led to new “health needs and an increase in the complexity of health problems, associated, among others, with population aging and multiple morbidity and dependence, but also to a more acute awareness of access to health as a right” [1].