Winds of Change: the Future has Arrived at the Health Sector
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https://doi.org/10.24950/rspmi.798Keywords:
Delivery of Health Care, Health Care Reform, Health Policy, Health Services Needs and Demand, Public HealthAbstract
A large body of literature has stressed the acceleration of change since
the beginning of the millennium. And such a change can be summarized
in eight major trends:
- Two pertaining to the market demand: decrease of the low price segment
and market fragmentation;
- Two on the supply side: shortening of the service/product/model life
cycle and the second industrial revolution (robotization);
- And four trends related to competition: deregulation; liberalization;
globalization; and transnational competition.
As frequently happens, these environmental trends started with an impact
in some sectors, only to reach others now, including the health sector.
It follows profound implications on how health organizations are
increasingly managed, both internally and externally, that is in their
strategic adaptation to environment.
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