title: Foreseeable trends in health care delivery.
abstract: "These trends represent the obvious call from society for health change: enlarged access to the system; reduction in the rate of rise in cost; equity in care; and increased quality in care. All of these elements except the cost objective requires not lessened but additional and redistributed resources. If this is pleasing, exert influence to reinforce the trends toward it. If not, speak now to modify the otherwise inevitable."
mesh_terms: D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000191:economics / Q000639:trends*; D005380:Financing, Government; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand / Q000639:trends; D006280:Health Workforce / Q000639:trends; D006801:Humans; D007326:Institutionalization / Q000639:trends; D011320:Primary Health Care / Q000639:trends; D014481:United States