[Health care services and regional development, a medicometric approach]

Health care services and regional development, a medicometric approach. 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 level of economic development. Through case studies in Switzerland we open four perspectives for the future and propose a global view of health care systems in a regional context.