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Medical care costs. Medical care is labour intensive, uses increasingly sophisticated techniques and equipment and is subject to seemingly insatiable demand from raised expectations of consumers and from demographic changes. As medical science progresses, new techniques and possibilities are developed which creates tension between what is technically possible and what resources can sustain. This tension is further exacerbated by moral change: for example, recognition of the need to improve care for those with a mental handicap.
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King, W. (1998). Information Technology and the Management of Preventive Services. In: Saba, V.K., Pocklington, D.B., Miller, K.P. (eds) Nursing and Computers. Computers and Medicine. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2182-1_26
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