The Environment

  • Professional accountability / Evidence-based practice
  • Individual responsibility for health / Information for informed choices & decisions
  • Regionalization and community-based care
  • Prevention and promotion
  • Twelve, not one, health care systems
  • Internet opportunities / Internet as panacea
  • Internet connectivity, technical support, and training
  • Access vs. ownership / Resource sharing
  • Clearinghouse / resource centre vs. library model
  • Transfer of research into practice
  • Need for financial responsibility and restraint
  • Remote and special populations and specific problems