title: The future in health care delivery. Lessons from history, demographics, and economics.
abstract: As the clock ticked toward the millennium and the end of a thousand years of perceived progress, we felt compelled to take stock of where we have been and where we may yet go as a global community. The world is lit by lightening, created by our own hands, and as a species, we assume we have the power to speculate on a future we hope to control. What will that future look like? Or, better asked, how have we altered the present so that we may anticipate that future?
authors.affiliation: University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, School of Nursing, Newark, USA.
authors.forename: F W
authors.initials: FW
authors.lastname: Quinless
authors.forename: N L
authors.initials: NL
authors.lastname: Elliot
mesh_terms: D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000639:trends*; D003710:Demography; D014943:Global Health; D006266:Health Education / Q000639:trends*; D006801:Humans