The Economics of Medical Technology: Proceedings of an International Conference on Economics of Medical Technology (Health Systems Research) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3540179844 ISBN 13: 9783540179849

Publisher: Springer, 1987

Synopsis

Technological development has created major possibilities for the treatment of disease and for the disabled. The cost of new technologies has added considerably to health care cost intlation, which still exceeds the growth rates of most national economies. The share of national resources devoted to health care is still rising, although at a lesser pace than in the seventies. -Therefore, the use of medical technology confronts us with some of the major dilemmas in society today. The routine and intensive use of technology has transformed the most basic interpersonal and social features of medicine. It has altered the means through which patient and doctor communicate about illness as well as the content of this communication, changed the doctor's relationship to medical colleagues by increasing his dependence on them, altered the place and form of practice by creating advantages for the centralization of medical care in complex organizations, and created for society new responsibilities and powers to influence the context and scope of medical practice.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 1987
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3540179844
• ISBN 13: 9783540179849
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 148
• Editor: Rutten Frans F.H., Reiser Stanley J.