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Physician Support Personnel In the 1970'sThe R and D Approach to Health Manpower
Paul J. Sanazaro, MD
JAMA. 1970;214(1):98-100.
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If current economic and technological resources were properly allocated in the United States, all citizens could be provided access to the appropriate level of health care. There are, however, several major barriers to the early attainment of this public policy goal. First, it is clear that existing manpower resources are inadequate. Second, the health professions individually and in various combinations cannot yet take advantage of technology and "organization" to increase their productivity. Third, suitable methods for financing the health care of all citizens have yet to be devised. These problems constitute high priorities for the National Center's research and development in health services.
A further hindrance to rapid progress in providing an equitable allocation of resources, is the competition for public and private funds by other high-priority national problems. In this competition, priority choices in the health field are especially limited by lack of information on the effectiveness of current
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Author Affiliations
From the National Center for Health Services Research and Development, Rockville, Md.
Footnotes
Read before the conference on Physician Support Personnel in the 70's, sponsored by the AMA Council on Health Manpower, Chicago, March 19, 1970.
The topic is discussed in the light of research and development at the operating program level in the National Center for Health Service. These views expressed are not intended to reflect a new manpower policy by the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.
Reprint requests to AMA Division of Health Service, 535 N Dearborn St, Chicago 60610.
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