title: Standards for adequate minimum personal health services.
abstract: Consideration of adequate minimum standards for health services usually fails to distinguish among the underlying interpretations of the problem--poverty, wastefulness, or harmfulness. Proposed "redistributive" programs, then, must specify what it is that is to be redistributed; the shortages may not be where expected. Government as guarantor of rights may be more effective in health services than as provider of programs. Adequate standards will best be advanced through adequate financial assistance.
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D026688:Bioethical Issues; D003134:Commitment of Persons with Psychiatric Disorders / Q000191:economics; D035082:Federal Government; D005380:Financing, Government; D033161:Government Regulation; D006295:Health Resources / Q000600:supply & distribution*; D006296:Health Services / Q000592:standards*; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand / Q000191:economics / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D006801:Humans; D008483:Medical Assistance / Q000191:economics*; D028642:Persons with Psychiatric Disorders; D009313:National Health Programs; D011203:Poverty; D011640:Public Policy; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D040841:Resource Allocation; D012935:Social Justice; D012945:Social Values; D014481:United States; D035862:Vulnerable Populations