Systemic surgery: a new social contract for health care
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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Citation
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
Publisher
:MCB UP Ltd
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