Health Care 2010
Subtitle: Health Care Delivery, Therapies and the Pharmaceutical Industries
By: edited by Clement Bezold, K. Knabner
Contributors: Knabner, K.
Series: Ernst Schering Research Foundation Workshop -- 8; Ernst Schering Research Foundation Workshop -- 8
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Berlin, Heidelberg
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 117
ISBN-13: 9783662030486; 9783662030462
Subjects: Toxicology; Engineering; Biomedical engineering
Description: Health care delivery, therapies and pharmaceuticals face major changes throughout the industrial world. As cost containment strategies are introduced by governments, as payers become more conscious and influential in their decisions about shaping therapies, and as consumers become more involved in directing their own health care, health care providers and pharmaceutical companies are being challenged to rethink the way they do business. This volume explores these changes and the potential responses. Parallel developments in health care delivery, information systems, pharmaceutical discovery and development are explored in Europe, the U.S. and Japan. Alternative futures or scenarios of health systems in 2010 summarize this diversity in the context of economic growth and economic hard times. This book explores the future of biomedical science by considering how the social, political and economic context in health care delivery and pharmaceutical industry will evolve. There is a slight chance that the future will be a successful extrapolation of the present, far more likely are scenarios which forecast major changes in the paradigms of medicine and health policy. The papers and scenarios in this book review that broader range of change.
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