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A Comparison of Organized and Traditional Health Care. Implications for Health Promotion and Prospective Medicine

PURPOSE: To compare organized and traditional health care delivery systems and their ability to meet several major challenges facing health care in the next 25 years. APPROACH: Analysis of traditional and organized health care systems based on a career spent in organized health care systems. CONCLUSIONS: The traditional health care system based on independent autonomous physicians is not able to meet the challenges of current healthcare...

Keywords: Organized health care, traditional health care, delivery systems, health promotion, medical care