[Research, training and community links in today's hospitals].
The role of hospitals in research, medical training and their relationship with the community is challenged by socio-economical, epidemiological, demographic and technological changes western health care systems are facing today. This paper enhances that: 1. beside the experimental, high tech and biotechnological model of research, there is still a great need for studies in areas such as: doctor-patient relationship, disability, access to care and patient satisfaction; 2. medical training should open to community settings in order to avoid excess in medical specialisation and future shortage of primary health care professionals; 3. a close link with community health care should be established through strategic and operational planning between hospital and community services and a formalised role for family physicians within hospital-based Departments of Family and Community Medicine.
Renga
Giovanni
G
Dipartimento di Santà Pubblica, Università degli Studi di Torino, I.
Visca
Giorgio
G
D003159:Community-Institutional Relations; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D006761:Hospitals / Q000266:history*; D007558:Italy; D012106:Research / Q000266:history*; D013663:Teaching / Q000266:history*