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Author Barker, Richard, Dr.

Title 2030, the future of medicine : avoiding a medical meltdown / Richard Barker
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011

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Description x, 118 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Contents Machine generated contents note 1. The supply of new medicine -- unlimited? -- 2. Healthcare demand -- insatiable? -- 3. Medical meltdown -- unavoidable? -- 4. Taking responsibility -- a healthcare agenda for the next 20 years -- 5. Conclusion-the US, the UK, and the Middle Way
Summary It is 2030. What are the new technologies that have advanced healthcare? What are the new or strengthened demands placed on the healthcare systems of the world? Is the future affordable, or do we see drastic rationing of care or the collapse of healthcare insurance? This book tackles these questions, and provides some answers. It does not shrink from the uncomfortable challenges that lie ahead, as demand surges and new technologies add to the strain. It lays out ten levers that stand a fighting chance of closing the healthcare equation, of balancing supply and demand. But these levers require radically new thinking on the part of politicians, health systems managers, professionals and patients alike. Thinking that needs to be urgently turned into action, whatever the barriers and vested interests. Of all subjects, healthcare is intensely personal, so the future is illustrated with the health histories of members of a fictional family, the Carters. They could live in the US or the UK - or any number of countries that all face the challenge of affordable healthcare over the next 20 years
Analysis Forecasting
Great Britain
Health care
International comparisons
Medical equipment
Medical profession
Medical records
Overseas item
Planning processes
Statistics
United States
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (page 111) and index
Subject Medical care -- Forecasting.
Medical economics -- Forecasting.
Delivery of Health Care -- trends.
Forecasting.
Economics, Medical -- trends.
Health Care Sector -- trends.
Quality of Health Care -- trends.
Delivery of Health Care -- trends.
Economics, Medical -- trends.
Forecasting.
Health Care Sector -- trends.
Quality of Health Care -- trends.
SUBJECT United Kingdom. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D006113
United States. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481
LC no. 2011377307
ISBN 019960066X (paperback: alk. paper)
9780199600663 (paperback: alk. paper)
Other Titles Twenty-thirty, the future of medicine