Forum proceedings
Subtitle: exploring new frontiers of U.S. health policy : October 12, 1984, UMDNJ-Rutgers Medical School
By: sponsored by the Graduate Program in Public Health, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-Rutgers Medical School and Rutgers-the State University of New Jersey
Contributors: Rutgers University
Publisher: Graduate Program in Public Health, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-Rutgers Medical School and Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
Published: 1984
Place of publication: New Brunswick, N. J.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 94
Subjects: Health Policy; Medical policy; Congresses
Other titles: Exploring new frontiers of U.S. health policy.; Proceedings, a forum in honor of professors Anne R. and Herman M. Somers.; Proceedings, exploring new frontiers of U.S. health policy.
Notes: Cover title: Proceedings, exploring new frontiers of U.S. health policy.

Spine title: Proceedings, a forum in honor of professors Anne R. and Herman M. Somers.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The compression of morbidity, Benjamin Gompertz, the two types of chronic disease, and health policy / James F. Fries; title: Perspectives on the compression of morbidity : a panel discussion; title: Environmental perspectives on the rectangular society / Michael Gochfeld; title: Behavioral perspectives and the rectangular society / Nathan Maccoby, Janet M. Peck; title: Exploring new frontiers of U.S. health policy : genetic perspectives / Elena O. Nightingale; title: The rectangular society : health care perspectives on the implications for preventive medicine / Lester Breslow; title: Technology, economics and professional values : the challenge to young health professionals / Arnold S. Relman; title: Panel response to Dr. Relman's address; title: High technology, high bioethics, a physician's challenge / William H. Frist; title: The evolving role of the primary physician as health care manager / Samuel W. Warburton; title: Do numbers take the art out of medicine? Prospects for a quantitative approach to clinical decision making / John M. Eisenberg; title: Geriatric medicine, a young point of view / Judith C. Ahronheim.