title: P.L. 93--641:a recipe for action.
abstract: Reduced to its plainest terms, health planning is a means to facilitate genuine coordination and cooperation among the many components of the American health care system. The health planning law should give local community providers and consumers a better opportunity to make health planning work, but its success will depend on the willingness of the community to effect change through local decision making.
mesh_terms: D003695:Delivery of Health Care; D006285:Health Planning / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence* / Q000458:organization & administration; D006307:Health Systems Agencies; D006752:Hospital Planning; D014481:United States