Toward a fourth generation of health planning

With federal funding for health planning on the decline, local efforts are under way to replace the health planning structure being dismantled at the federal level. The next generation of health planning will be shaped by the federal government's desire for homogeneity in planning efforts, the inseparability of planning and regulation, the likely diminution of the current anti-regulatory fervor, and the need for individual institutions and their leadership to bear more risk than they have in the past.