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Patient organizations and prevention in the Netherlands
Iris van Bennekom-StompedisselNetherlands Patient and Consumer Federation P.O. Box 1539, 3500 BM Utrecht, The Netherlands
e-mail: ivanbennekom@npcf.nl
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The paper Patient Organizations and Public health by M. Naidtick highlights the importance of patients experiences and knowledge for health research and policy. The analysis also applies to developments in the Netherlands of the past 20 years, in which individual patients and consumers have founded hundreds of patients organizations. Some of