Changing ideas in health care

Financing Health Care: New Ideas for a Changing Society

subjects ranging from cardiovascular disease, dermatology, ambulatory medicine, geriatrics, hospital medicine, and women’s health. Each chapter represents a subject and includes a table of contents outlining the included topics. The book does an excellent job of focusing on essential topics within a particular area in great detail, such as asthma within the allergy and immunology chapter. Inclu...

Changing practice in health care.

Changing ideas about eukaryotic origins.

The origin of eukaryotic cells is one of the most fascinating challenges in biology, and has inspired decades of controversy and debate. Recent work has led to major upheavals in our understanding of eukaryotic origins and has catalysed new debates about the roles of endosymbiosis and gene flow across the tree of life. Improved methods of phylogenetic analysis support scenarios in which the hos...

Hospitals in a changing health care system.

Health system change is happening locally, and hospitals are at the center of this change. This paper, which presents data from a 1995 study of fifteen diverse communities, sketches the broad economic and organizational forces affecting hospitals in these communities and the hospitals' responses. Within these larger trends, local flavors and differences emerge. These appear to reflect variation...

Child health care in changing times.

Unprecedented transformations in the financing and organization of child health care are driving change in the practice of pediatrics at a remarkably fast pace. The health care needs of children also are evolving, reflecting changing disease patterns, new technologies, and shifting socioeconomic and demographic characteristics of children and families. Changes in the financing and organization ...