Managing the care of health and the cure of disease--Part I: Differentiation.
The clinical methods used in health care and disease cure are easily understood. Yet when combined into institutions and broadened into social systems, the management of them becomes surprisingly convoluted. Part I of this article presents a framework to help understand how this happens.
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Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care, Kunin-Lunefeld Applied Research Unit, Toronto, Ontario. sholom@interlog.com
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D000208:Acute Disease; D018672:Community Health Planning; D003153:Community Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration; D003159:Community-Institutional Relations; D003659:Decision Making, Organizational; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006769:Hospitals, General / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D007373:Interinstitutional Relations; D008134:Long-Term Care / Q000458:organization & administration; D017146:Models, Organizational; D011057:Politics; D011209:Power, Psychological; D012926:Social Control, Formal; D013597:Systems Analysis