Health Care Challenges in the 21st Century
| Domain | Specific Challenges |
|---|---|
| Patient care | Influence of behavioral, psychological, and social factors on illnesses |
| Medically unexplained illnesses | |
| POEM (patient-oriented evidence that matters) | |
| Increasing need for patient participation | |
| Increasing complexity of interventions | |
| Patient-centered outcomes | |
| Health services delivery | Rising demand with limited resources |
| Accountability of services | |
| Alternative methods and models of care | |
| Integration of different services | |
| Professional development | Variation in practice |
| Adherence to management guidelines | |
| Practice of evidence-based medicine | |
| Critical appraisal | |
| Information overload |