Provision of Health Services
- 28 September 1967
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 277 (13) , 682-686
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm196709282771305
Abstract
HEALTH services are unlike any other needs of man in a number of significant ways. In the first place there is really no upper limit to what may be furnished. It is easy to determine how much food and how much housing are needed. But the level at which the provision of health services should stop cannot be specified because there is now demonstrable benefit from increasing the available services even beyond one's wildest dreams. For instance, it might be well if every man, woman and child had a complete, annual physical examination with all the usual laboratory procedures. That . . .This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: