Alberti P W
Department of Otolaryngology, University of Toronto, Canada.
Scand Audiol Suppl. 1996;42:49-51.
Health care resources are unevenly distributed: 15% of the world's population utilise 87%. Physician numbers vary dramatically from one region to another, as does disease distribution and the age of the population. All this impacts both what can be delivered and what is appropriate to a region. Primary prevention is usually effective and much cheaper than treatment or rehabilitation. Alternative health care models are discussed.
全球15%的人口使用了87%的资源。不同地区的医生数量差异巨大，疾病分布和人口年龄结构也是如此。所有这些都影响着一个地区能够提供的医疗服务以及适合该地区的医疗服务。一级预防通常是有效的，而且比治疗或康复成本低得多。文中还讨论了替代性医疗保健模式。
