Costs and Delivery of Health Services to Older Americans: Hearings, Ninetieth Congress, First [and Second] Session[s].U.S. Government Printing Office, 1967 |
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Page 537 - ^the restoration of the handicapped to the fullest physical, mental, social, vocational, and economic usefulness of which they are capable," 4 to accomplish what Is implicit in this definition would require comprehensive services and integrated functioning of a professional team, including skills in medical, psychological, social, and vocational fields.
Page 175 - United States. . . . New England Maine New Hampshire... . Massachusetts Rhode Island' Connecticut Middle Atlantic New York Pennsylvania East North Central Ohio Indiana Illinois Michigan. West North Central.. Minnesota Iowa Missouri.. North Dakota. South Dakota Nebraska Kansas South Atlantic Delaware District of Columbia
Page 184 - Reasonable charges" are based on the customary charges for similar services generally made by the physician or other person, as well as the prevailing charges In the locality for similar services. They may not be higher than the charge applicable for the carrier's own
Page 203 - declined precipitously in most western countries. During the last half of the nineteenth, and the first half of the twentieth century, there was a significant rise in the relative importance of manufacturing. Now we are witnessing in this country the growth of what I have described elsewhere as
Page 534 - (Feb.). 1965. Dr. Bums is professor of social work, Columbia University School of Social Work (2 East 91st Street), New York, NY This paper was presented before the Third General Session of the American Public Health Association at the Ninety-Fourth Annual Meeting in San Francisco, Calif., October
Page 324 - from 0.8 percent in 1950 to 1 percent in 1964. Therefore, there was a significant increase in the use of drugs by the average consumer. In recent years, there has been a marked increase in the use of prescription drugs as opposed to over-the-counter drug items. In 1959, the average American family purchased 11 drug prescriptions and spent $33 on prescription drugs. By
Page 417 - [Applause.] From the Citizens Committee on Aging of the Community Council of Greater New York we are now going to have Mrs. Susan Kinoy, project director, Promoting Home Health and Social Services to New York's Aging.
Page 102 - on Health of the Elderly of the Senate Special Committee on Aging, discussing the delivery of health services to older Americans. Blue Cross has a strong and continuing interest in this subject, having written over five million contracts for senior citizens before the advent of Medicare, and now 'being so actively involved as an intermediary under Medicare as well as
Page 157 - the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare at the request of the Special Committee on Aging, US Senate as follows: Now then, what effect has Medicare had on the costs of health care? It might
Page 210 - do and don't do, to and for themsleves. With so much attention given, to medical care, and so little to health education and individual responsibility for personal health, we run the danger of pandering to the understandable urge to buy a quick solution to a difficult problem.