Beyond Health Promotion: Reducing Need And Demand For Medical Care

PROLOGUE: Most of the recent reforms in health care delivery have been aimed at providing services more efficiently, and very few have considered the economic advantages of actually improving health. The authors of this paper argue that we have been too much consumed with the supply side of the health care equation and too little concerned with the demand side. The best way to reduce costs and improve health at the same time, they suggest, is...