Health Care Services and Regional Development: A Medicometric Approach

Abstract

If regional development is defined in terms of job creation and increased quality of life, health services can be seen as an investment contributing to employment and local structural changes. Spendings to increase health services, especially in peripherical regions, increase the levei of economic development. Through case studies in Switzerland we open four per- spectives for the future and propose a global view of health care systems in a regional context.