The Future of Health and Health Care Systems in the Industrialized Societies

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This volume brings together North American and European experts in demographics, public administration, management, and health sciences to examine the challenges confronting health care personnel and systems in the industrialized countries. Following an overview of the general problems and method of health care planning, contributors discuss such crucial topics as changes in the health status of populations; the impact of an aging population on health care systems; the prospects for reorganizing health care systems; the effects of new technology and drugs on health care; and the future of health care financing. The book is aimed at scholars of and practitioners in demography, marketing and health services administration.

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BUI DANG HA DOAN is Director of the Centre de Sociologie et de Demographie Medicales in Paris, France.