Health and health care 2010
Subtitle: the forecast, the challenge
By: [contributors, Roy Amara ... [et al.]].
Contributors: Amara, Roy.; Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.; Institute for the Future.
Edition: Second ed.
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Published: 2003
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 400
Subjects: Medical care -- United States -- Forecasting; Public health -- United States -- Forecasting; Delivery of Health Care -- trends -- United States; Forecasting -- United States
Other titles: Health and health care twenty ten; Health & health care 2010
Description: In this second edition of 'Health and Health Care 2010' the Institute for the Future (IFTF) offers revised and updated analysis of the trends and possible future direction of America's health and health care delivery system. It predicts short-term developments, with forecasts reaching to the year 2010 for: health insurance, managed care, health care providers, the health workforce, medical technologies, information technologies, consumerism, public health services, mental health, child health, health of the elderly, chronic care, disease management and health behaviours.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
"To recognize the 25th anniversary of its founding, in 1997 The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation asked the Institute for the Future (IFTF) to forecast the future of health and health care in America ..."--Introduction.
Table of contents: title: Health and health care forecast; title: Demographic trends and the burden of disease; title: Health care's demand side; title: Health insurance; title: Managed care; title: Health care providers; title: Health care workforce; title: Medical technologies; title: Information technologies; title: Health care consumers; title: Public health services; title: Mental Health; title: Childrens health; title: Health and health care of America's seniors; title: Chronic care in America; title: Disease Management; title: Health behaviors; title: Expanded perspective on health.