Abstract
In the past, health care was delivered mainly in acute-care facilities. Today, health care is delivered in hospital, outpatient, transitional care, long-term care, rehabilitative care, home, and private office settings. Measures to reduce health-care costs include decreasing the number of hospitals and the length of patient stays, increasing outpatient and home care, and increasing long-term care for the elderly. The home-care industry and managed care have become major providers of health care. The role of specialists in health-care epidemiology has changed accordingly.
MeSH terms
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Aged
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Aging
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Ambulatory Care / statistics & numerical data
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Communicable Disease Control / economics
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Communicable Disease Control / organization & administration
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Communicable Disease Control / statistics & numerical data
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Communicable Disease Control / trends*
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Delivery of Health Care / economics
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Delivery of Health Care / organization & administration
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Delivery of Health Care / statistics & numerical data
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Delivery of Health Care / trends*
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Health Maintenance Organizations / statistics & numerical data
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Health Maintenance Organizations / trends
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Health Personnel
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Health Services for the Aged / statistics & numerical data
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Home Care Services / economics
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Home Care Services / organization & administration
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Home Care Services / statistics & numerical data
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Home Care Services / trends
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Humans
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Medicine
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Specialization
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United States