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Abstract
The quest for consumer participation in the management of health care delivery may have experienced its first signs of success, but the implications of that success are as yet unclear. The establishment of consumer majorities on the newly developed health systems agency (HSA) boards was seen as an important milestone in the development of the consumer movement in America over the last ten years. The initial wave of optimism over the Great Society programs that in part gave birth to the consumer movement has long since vanished, but some of the organizational results of those attempts at innovation have become routinely established, as the requirements for consumer participation specified in wave after wave of health related amendments clearly indicates. But what are the results of this participation, and what can we reasonably expect in the future?
Recommended Citation
Imershein, Allen W. and Miller, Eugenia T.
(1980)
"The Impact of Consumerism on Health Care Change: Alternatives for the Future?,"
The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare: Vol. 7:
Iss.
3, Article 11.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15453/0191-5096.1424
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