Research agenda: emerging issues in the management of health and illness.
Today, in our capitalistic society, demographics, economics, and quality assessments are major systemwide drivers of research in the management of health and illness. Future trends promise a continued emphasis on outcomes, with a likely focus on rationing of care. Changes in quality definitions and changing acceptance of the levels and locations of care, with continued cost shifting into a broadened form of tax-supported health care, are anticipated. Concomitant and reflexive with these macroscopic trends are more microscopic organizational and professional trends and research agendas.
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Research and Graduate Affairs, Kent State University, College of Nursing, Room 214, Box 5190, Kent, OH 44242-0001, USA.
D001723:Birth Rate; D017048:Health Care Costs; D006801:Humans; D008329:Managed Care Programs / Q000191:economics / Q000639:trends; D009726:Nurses / Q000600:supply & distribution*; D011157:Population Dynamics; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D014481:United States; D000078329:Workforce