[Multidisciplinary health houses - the missing link in the mobile healthcare organization?]

The emergence of health houses ? which are the product of a long and complex history ? is indicative of the gap between the historical principles of healthcare organization and epidemiological, social and economic reality. These new types of healthcare provision often demonstrate all the required virtues for dealing with current health issues. Recent history shows that it is important to avoid indulging in "magical thought", which tends to reduce ends to the means of attaining such ends. In the event of conclusive results, the hardest challenge will be to move from experimentation to generalization by liberating energies and by trusting the health professionals operating within the sector. But this requires an overall strategy geared towards the provision of mobile healthcare services.