James F. Fries
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Reducing the need and demand for medical care: implications for quality management and outcome improvement.
Qual Manag Health Care. 1997; (1): 34-44
Reduction in medical need (illness burden) and demand (variability in resource use) can improve health, reduce medical care costs, and move us toward the goal of becoming a healthy society. Health promotion, redefined, works to enhance individual autonomy. The underlying conceptual bases and the abundant empiric documentation of the effectiveness of need and demand reduction are summarized here.
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