Friedman E
Hospitals. 1991 Apr 5;65(7):36-40.
What will U.S. health care look like in the next century? The changing faces of Americans provide some of the answers. The fact is, health care in this country will be transformed by the same demographic trends sweeping American society: the aging of the population, the feminization of the workplace, and the nation's increasing ethnic heterogeneity. With one of every six U.S. households headed by a woman living alone, the baby-boom generation moving through middle age, and a youthful minority population becoming a majority in some of the largest states, the implications are many for programs like Medicare and Medicaid and for the general focus of our health care efforts. Contributing editor Emily Friedman sorts out the changes that will rock society and transform the health care system in the process.
下个世纪美国的医疗保健会是什么样子？美国人不断变化的面貌提供了一些答案。事实上，这个国家的医疗保健将被席卷美国社会的相同人口趋势所改变：人口老龄化、职场女性化以及国家日益增加的种族多样性。在美国，每六个家庭中就有一个由独自生活的女性当家，婴儿潮一代步入中年，年轻的少数族裔人口在一些最大的州成为多数群体，这对医疗保险和医疗补助等项目以及我们医疗保健工作的总体重点都有诸多影响。特约编辑艾米丽·弗里德曼梳理了将震撼社会并在此过程中改变医疗保健系统的种种变化。
