Abstract

European health care systems need to adapt to ongoing financial pressures, while at the same time evolving better to suit changing health care needs of children as chronic conditions become increasingly dominant problems.2 For example, in response to current global economic pressures, many countries are considering changing from a pediatriciandelivered primary care system to a general practitioner model as a cost-cutting exercise, rather than in response to evidence about quality. Different possible “extreme scenarios” have been described1 in response to the likelihood that substantial changes in health care will unfold for European healthcare in the next 20 years. Three of these scenarios include: (1) European nations joining forces to create a single pan-European healthcare system; (2) preventive medicine taking precedence over acute care for sick patients; and (3) European healthcare systems focusing on vulnerable members of society. These scenarios are proposed and analyzed in this article by the strategic pediatric alliance for the future health of children in Europe consortium (SPA)

Autore Pugliese

• Pettoello Mantovani Massimo

Tutti gli autori

• Del Torso S. , Pettoello Mantovani M. , Tenore A. , Grossman Z. , Wolfe I. , Ehrich J.

Titolo volume/Rivista

JOURNAL OF PEDIATRICS

Anno di pubblicazione

2013

ISSN

0022-3476

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Numero di citazioni Scopus

4

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