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Health Care and AIDS

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  • JONATHAN PECK
  • CLEMENT BEZOLD

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The acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) is a harbinger for change in health care. There are many powerful forces poised to transform the industrialized health care structure of the twentieth century, and AIDS may act as either a catalyst or an amplifier for these forces. AIDS could, for example, swamp local resources and thereby help trigger national reform in a health care system that has already lost public confidence. AIDS can also hasten the paradigm shift that is occurring throughout health care. Many of the choices society will confront when dealing with AIDS carry implications beyond health care. Information about who has the disease, for example, already pits traditional individual rights against group interests. Future information systems could make discrimination based upon medical records a nightmare for a growing number of individuals. Yet these systems also offer the hope of accelerated progress against not only AIDS but other major health threats as well. The policy choices that will define society's response to AIDS can best be made in the context of a clearly articulated vision of a society that reflects our deepest values.

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  • Jonathan Peck & Clement Bezold, 1992. "Health Care and AIDS," The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, , vol. 522(1), pages 130-139, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:anname:v:522:y:1992:i:1:p:130-139
    DOI: 10.1177/0002716292522001012
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