Survival is not enough: improving quality of life
De Santo, N.G.; De Santo, R.M.; Perna, A.; Anastasio, P.; Pollastro, R.M.; Di Leo, V.A.; Bilancio, G.; Cirillo, M.
Giornale Italiano di Nefrologia Organo Ufficiale Della Societa Italiana di Nefrologia 25(6): 648-655
2008
ISSN/ISBN: 0393-5590 PMID: 19048561 Document Number: 619907
We need a new health care system that is based on patients' needs. The present cadre of health managers who acquired power by cutting expenditures must be removed from office. We need to educate a new cadre of health managers who are 1) convinced that safeguarding health does not use up the resources of the next generations; 2) capable of switching the system from curative to preventive medicine; and 3) able to reinforce clinical research. Such principles have been recently adopted by the French President Sarkozy in devising the national health care program.