Abstract
As the American population was evolving into its contemporary profile, the US healthcare system was undergoing a major transformation of its own. Driven in part by the convergence of the social trends discussed in the previous chapter, the healthcare system experienced a series of events that created a continuously evolving enterprise forced to adapt to a changing environment. The extent to which our healthcare system has become ineffective in the face of these changing conditions is reviewed.
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Thomas, R.K. (2023). The Road to Population Health: A Changing Healthcare System. In: Population Health. Springer Texts in Social Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-36413-6_3
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