Strategic Factors in U. S. Health Care: Human Resources, Capital, and Technology
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Introduction -- Retrospective on Health Care Issues -- Future Forces Affecting the Health Care System -- Final Comment -- 1 Health Care Forecasting: A Retrospective, 1970-1980 -- Some Reflections on Forecasting -- Forecasts and the Health Care Delivery System -- Forecasting National Health Expenditures: 1970-1980 -- Forecasting Human Resources Supply and Requirements: 1970-1980 -- Forecasting Capital Needs and Bed Supply: 1970-1980 -- Forecasting Changes in Technology: 1970-1980 -- Forecasting Organizational Change in the Health Care Delivery System: 1970-1980 -- Summary and Conclusions -- Notes -- 2 Changing Employment Trends in the U.S. Health Care Delivery System: 1985-2000 -- Health Sector Employment by Specific Place of Employment -- Health Sector Employment by Occupation -- Gender and Race Issues -- Policy Issues and Conclusions -- Notes -- 3 Critical Issues in Capital for Health Care -- The Roles of Capital in Health Care -- Estimates of Capital Need -- Borrowing and the Bond Market -- Other Issues in Health Capital Policy -- The Academic Health Center and Access to Capital -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 4 The Rapid Progress of Medical Technology -- Capital and Technology -- Cost of Technology Issues -- Issues in Technology Diffusion -- New and Emerging Technologies -- Transplantation of Human Organs -- Other Issues -- Conclusion -- Notes -- About the Author -- Index.