Planning a Health Care Delivery System and Psychosomatic Medicine

Planning Strategies for Home Health Care Delivery

In home health care, continuity of care, wherein a patient is always visited by the same nurse, can be just as important as cost, as it is closely correlated to quality of care. While a patient typically receives care for two to three months, such that assigning a nurse to a patient impacts operations for lengthy periods of time, previous research focusing on continuity of care uses planning ho...

Psychosomatic Medicine

Inhere is still a lack of agreement about basic concepts in this field. The name 'tself is unfortunate, since it tends to perpetuate dualistic thinking of the "ghost ?n the machine" type.

Psychosomatic Medicine

Health Care Reform—An Integrated Health Care Delivery System Perspective

Why the need for such a radical shift? Because in the past decade, employers’ health care costs have increased more than four times the inflation rate. The average U.S. household spends $15,300 a year for a family of four on health care. And, as a nation, we spend nearly 18 percent of the gross domestic product on health care. If we stay this course, the percentage of health care spending will ...

A Psychosomatic Approach to Medicine

Psychosomatic illness is attracting a body of abstruse and ?rudite literature which is gradually adding a great deal to our knowledge of the relations of mind and body under stress, and in health. But much of it is incomprehensible to the layman and even to the general practitioner, since it presupposes knowledge ^'hich in fact they have not got. Dr. O'Neill sets out to remedy this defect by pr...