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Article: Health care evolution: New roles for family and consumer professionals
- Article from:
- Journal of Family and Consumer Sciences
- Article date:
- January 1, 1999
- Author:
CopyrightCopyright American Association of Family & Consumer Sciences 1999. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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ABSTRACT
The health care evolution affects families in how they use and pay for health care. Communities face changes in the types of providers available as well as how community members make choices to use the health care system. The purpose of this paper is to describe the current health care evolution through related cost, quality, and access issues. Implications for consumers and the professionals that serve them are drawn. Family and consumer science professionals need to continue and enhance educational programming that affects personal health behaviors, choices for interacting within care systems, and involvement in health care policy decisions. Our field provides an appropriate, ...