Management and marketing in health care. Some lessons for the United States from the British system.
The British health care system has been examined by sociologists, political scientists, and medical care specialists before, but in this presentation a section of the British health care system is viewed through the eyes of modern business management, particularly as to cost and consumer effectiveness. Examination of positive features as well as problems may be helpful in relation to some future health care delivery system in the United States. Cross fertilization between the disciplines of management and medicine has much to offer to the rapidly changing delivery of health care in the United States.
D000553:Ambulatory Care; D005194:Family Practice; D005102:Health Expenditures; D006268:Health Facilities; D006285:Health Planning; D009934:Organization and Administration; D013222:State Medicine; D006113:United Kingdom; D014481:United States