1st Edition

Strategic Factors In U.s. Health Care Human Resources, Capital, And Technology

By Howard S Berliner Copyright 1988

    The Conservation of Human Resources, Columbia University, of which I am the director, has been carrying out over the past three years an inquiry into selected forces that are altering the structure and functioning of the U.S. health care system. The funding for the project was provided by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the principal investigator was Howard Berliner, an Associate Research Scholar on the Conservation staff.

    List of Tables -- Introduction, Eli Ginzberg -- 1 Health Care Forecasting: A Retrospective, 1970-1980 -- 2 Changing Employment Trends in the U.S. Health Care Delivery System: 1985-2000 -- 3 Critical Issues in Capital for Health Care -- 4 The Rapid Progress of Medical Technology -- About the Author -- Index.

    Biography

    Howard S. Berliner, Sc.D., is associate research scholar at the Conservation of Human Resources, Columbia University. He is the author of A System of Scientific Medicine: Philanthropic Foundations in the Flexner Era (1985) and co-author of Young People at Risk.