Four strong winds: understanding the growing challenges to health care
Health and medicine, Medicine
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Summary
According to Michael Decter, the forces behind the changes in our health care systems are fourfold: paradigm shifts, new public expectations, technology and finances. Supplemented with case studies from the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Australia,… he analyzes how fiscal constraints, market competition, evolving technology and changing consumer demands are reshaping health care systems around the world at a dizzying rate. 2000.