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Health Planning for the Elderly: Computer Assisted Planning

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Third International Conference on System Science in Health Care

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Growth in the number of old people by the year 2000 in many countries poses a major challenge to policy officials and health planners. The number of people with chronic conditions will increase, utilization of health services, especially hospital and institutional lone; term care facilities, will increase markedly, and expenditures to provide adequate care for the elderly will soar.

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  1. Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, Baltimore, MD, 21205, USA

    K. Davis

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  1. MEDIS — Institut für Medizinische Informatik und Systemforschung, Gesellschaft für Strahlen- und Umweltforschung mbH München, Ingolstädter Landstraße 1, 8042, Oberschleißheim, Germany

    Wilhelm van Eimeren  & Rolf Engelbrecht  & 

  2. The Johns Hopkins University, 615 North Wolfe Street, Baltimore, Maryland, 21205, USA

    Charles D. Flagle

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Davis, K. (1984). Health Planning for the Elderly: Computer Assisted Planning. In: van Eimeren, W., Engelbrecht, R., Flagle, C.D. (eds) Third International Conference on System Science in Health Care. Health Systems Research. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-69939-9_49

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