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- ISBN:0-7737-3224-1
- $29.95
- Health/Public Policy
- 328pp
- 2000
Health care systems are subject to pressure from fiscal constraints, market competition, evolving technologies and changing consumer demands. Health care expert and Canada Health Council Chair Michael Decter has drawn upon his vast knowledge of how systems work to analyze the forces – the winds of change – that are reshaping them at a dizzying rate. He identifies four winds of change – paradigm shifts, new public expectations, technology and financing – and shows how the recent shift in emphasis from treating disease to preventing it has changed the way outcomes are measured, policy is developed, and services are delivered. Decter describes how chip-driven technology has revolutionized health care, offering new treatment and diagnostic options as well as communications capabilities that will change the doctor-patient relationship irrevocably. Analysis is supplemented with case studies from the U.S., New Zealand, Australia, England and Canada.
Formerly a Stoddart Title