Primary Care Reform in Montenegro

Communities and primary care reform.

Public attitudes to primary care reform.

In contemplating this column on primary care reform, many things came to mind. First was an anecdote from a friend of mine who comes from a small town where people frequently greet each other with the salutation,“What do you know for sure?” The standard response is, “Pretty quiet.” I think that anecdote probably best sums up how the public generally responds to primary care reform at the presen...

Health care reform: a perspective from primary care.

Planning elderly and palliative care in Montenegro

INTRODUCTION Montenegro, a newly independent Balkan state with a population of 650,000, has a health care reform programme supported by the World Bank. This paper describes planning for integrated elderly and palliative care. DESCRIPTION The current service is provided only through a single long-stay hospital, which has institutionalised patients and limited facilities. Broad estimates were m...

The primary care physician and health care reform.

WHATEVER FORM IT TAKES, HEALTH CARE REform will increase the number of Americans covered by health insurance. But there is concern that the legislation will not bend the cost curve—that is, will not reduce the growth of health care costs so that it more closely resembles the growth of the US gross domestic product (GDP). Currently, health care consumes about 16% of the GDP; advocates of bending...