title: Planning and administrative perspectives on adequate minimum personal health services.
abstract: Public resistance to equal distribution of medical care resources is supported by a union of usually contradictory forces--sophisticated science and superstitious credulity. In a field saturated with ethical imperatives and professional ambiguities, definitions of need become political weapons. Improvement in health policy will involve political doctrine, reorganization of knowledge, and more leverage in state and local government.
mesh_terms: D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006285:Health Planning; D006296:Health Services / Q000592:standards*; D006298:Health Services Administration; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand / Q000458:organization & administration; D009310:National Health Insurance, United States; D011640:Public Policy; D014481:United States