Continuing Trends in Health and Health Care

Ronald W. Wilson, Jacob J. Feldman and Mary Grace Kovar

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1978, vol. 435, issue 1, 140-148

Abstract: Current trends in health and health care that were identified in Social Indicators, 1976 are discussed, including the recent and, in some cases, dramatic declines in mortality, increases in health expenditures, increases in health resources, and changes in health habits. These trends are compared with strikingly similar trends identified almost a half a century ago by The Research Committee on Social Trends established by President Hoover. The significance of the current data and some of their possible causes and implications for the future are addressed, as well as some of the potential pitfalls in interpreting the data.

Date: 1978
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DOI: 10.1177/000271627843500109

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