Interdisciplinary health care: part I

The development of the Health Care delivery system has been unorganized and fragmented. A need to integrate the various health care components is essential and a discussion of interdisciplinary health teams is presented as one model to alleviate these problems. Part I will discuss the historical parameters and the philosophical components of health care. Part II will present the problems and inherent possibilities of health teams. Part III will include a review of the Interdisciplinary Health Teams course at the University of Houston, College of Optometry.