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Systemic surgery: a new social contract for health care

Reinhard Busse (European Observatory on Health Care Systems, Escuela Nacional de Sanidad, Calle Sinesio Delgado 8, 28029 Madrid, Spain)
Mario Zappacosta (Institute for Prospective Technological Studies, Edificio Expo‐WTC, Calle Inca Garcilaso, s/n, 41092 Seville, Spain)

Foresight

ISSN: 1463-6689

Article publication date: 1 August 2001

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Abstract

Modern health care presents challenges for science and technology that go well beyond surgical procedures and physiological monitoring. But although technology is making a rod for policymakers’ backs, it may also be throwing them a lifeline. The research focus is increasingly on information and communications technologies, which are opening up new possibilities in preventive health, self‐diagnosis and even remote surgery. For a public accustomed to paternalistic medicine, the redistribution of R&D resources may come as a shock – but Europe’s overstretched health services need more than sticking plaster solutions.

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Busse, R. and Zappacosta, M. (2001), "Systemic surgery: a new social contract for health care", Foresight, Vol. 3 No. 4, pp. 369-375. https://doi.org/10.1108/14636680110803247

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