Reorienting Health Services

Special addresses.- Opening address of the NATO ARI-HSS Conference.- Adress from the Systems Science Panel.- Health Services Systems in the Western World: An International Perspective on Problems and Prospects.- Section I Re-orienting Health Services-Application of a Systems Approach.- A Systems view of Health Services and Their Reorientation: Summary of the Conference Proceedings and Background Papers.- Analysis of Health Services Systems-A General Approach.- “A Systems Approach” and “Health Service Systems”: Time to Re-think?.- Section II Tools for doing it.- Some Aspects of Alternative Approaches to Planning.- Manpower Planning and Health Services Systems.- Financing and Health Services Systems.- Cost-effectiveness and Health Services Systems — A Systems Approach to the Assessment of Health Care.- Health Services Systems and Information Services.- Research and Development and the Health Systems Approach.- Section III National Experiences.- The French Health Services System.- The Dutch Health Services System: Problems and Measures of Interdependencies and Control.- The Italian Health Services System.- Health Services in the United States: Groping Toward a “System”?.- The Health Services Systems in Belgium.- The Health Services System in Turkey.- The Health Services of Norway: on the Road to a Political System.- The Canadian Health Services System.- The Health Services System of the United Kingdom.- The Changing Health Services System in Greece.- Participants.