书目名称 | Primary Care and Home Care Scenarios 1990–2005 | 副标题 | Scenario report comm | 编辑 | E. Schadé,H. J. Wennink,P. P. Groenewegen | 视频video | | 丛书名称 | Future Health Scenarios | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | CARE AT HOME -HOME CARE Health care in the Netherlands looks to be a well structured system. Supplementing the vital level of self-care and informal care are four levels of professional care: the public health service (known in the Netherlands as basic health care) is mainly concerned with preventive work aimed at the population at large; individuals with problems can contact their general practitioner or other primary care provider, who can -depending on the problem -refer them to specialists in the cure-oriented and hospital-centred secondary sector; where necessary, patients can then be referred on to the institutions of the tertiary sector with their role in mainly long-term care. On paper this pyramidal structure appears to work well; in practice, and in particular where complex forms of care are involved, the boundaries become blurred. Medical advances and social and economic developments may delay death to ever greater ages, but disease is not defeated; and since the risk of developing chronic conditions rises with age, more and more people become incapacitated and those who do remain so for longer. This leads to a growing demand for care and compels us to reconsider pattern | 出版日期 | Book 1993 | 关键词 | assessment; care; health; health care | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0810-2 | isbn_softcover | 978-0-7923-2658-8 | isbn_ebook | 978-94-011-0810-2 | copyright | Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1993 |
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