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Home Health Care

A Perspective from Industry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2009

Vernon R. Loucks Jr
Vernon R. Loucks Jr
Affiliation:
Baxter Travenol Laboratories, Inc.
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Extract

Throughout the industrialized world—from the United States to Japan, from Scandinavia to Australia—the theme of cost containment dominates the discourse on health care. This issue is the offspring of successful past efforts to ensure all patients effective medical care. While many countries have groups with special health disadvantages, the great majority of people in the industrialized nations have access to modern medical care and make ready use of it. The problem now is its cost, as aging populations, increasing in number as the result of advanced techniques that are more effective in prolonging life, place considerable strains on health care budgets.

Type
Advanced Technology and Health Care in the Home
Information
International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care , Volume 1 , Issue 2 , April 1985 , pp. 301 - 304
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1985

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1. NHS Management Inquiry presented to Secretary of State for Social Services, the RT. Hon. Norman Fowler, Oct. 6, 1983. Leader of inquiry—Roy Griffiths.Google Scholar
2. Title VI of the Social Security Amendments entitled Prospective Payments for Medical Inpatient Hospital Services signed into law by President Reagan on April 20, 1983.Google Scholar
3.Smith, , Barney, , Harris, Upham and Company Report on Home Care Industry—March 20, 1984.Google Scholar