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Primary Care and Home Care Scenarios 1990-2005 - Scenario report commissioned by the Steering Committee on Future Health Scenarios (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1994)
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Primary Care and Home Care Scenarios 1990-2005 - Scenario report commissioned by the Steering Committee on Future Health Scenarios (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1994)
Series: Future Health Scenarios
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CARE AT HOME -HOME CARE Health care in the Netherlands looks to be
a well structured system. Supplementing the vital level of
self-care and informal care are four levels of professional care:
the public health service (known in the Netherlands as basic health
care) is mainly concerned with preventive work aimed at the
population at large; individuals with problems can contact their
general practitioner or other primary care provider, who can
-depending on the problem -refer them to specialists in the
cure-oriented and hospital-centred secondary sector; where
necessary, patients can then be referred on to the institutions of
the tertiary sector with their role in mainly long-term care. On
paper this pyramidal structure appears to work well; in practice,
and in particular where complex forms of care are involved, the
boundaries become blurred. Medical advances and social and economic
developments may delay death to ever greater ages, but disease is
not defeated; and since the risk of developing chronic conditions
rises with age, more and more people become incapacitated and those
who do remain so for longer. This leads to a growing demand for
care and compels us to reconsider patterns of provision. The need
for such reconsideration is reinforced by users' changing needs and
aspirations, as patients increasingly wish to be nursed and cared
for in their own surroundings if at all possible. Technological
advances mean that wish can often be accommodated.
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