Adshead Fiona, Thorpe Allison
Department of Health, Richmond House, 79 Whitehall, London SW1A 2NS, UK.
Public Health. 2006 Nov;120(11):1008-12. doi: 10.1016/j.puhe.2006.08.015. Epub 2006 Oct 10.
A brief glance through the national papers and medical press shows the depth of concern with the cost of delivering high quality, free at the point of access healthcare to the population. However, at a time of increasingly greater demands being placed on public health systems across the globe, the question of how we can make health and healthcare both accessible to everyone and sustainable in the long term is being posed. In this paper we provide an insight into how England is responding to these challenges.
快速浏览一下全国性报纸和医学刊物就会发现,人们对为民众提供高质量、免费医疗服务的成本深感担忧。然而,在全球对公共卫生系统的需求日益增加的时代,我们如何能让每个人都能获得医疗服务并使其长期可持续发展的问题也随之而来。在本文中,我们深入探讨了英国是如何应对这些挑战的。