Open AccessContemporary demands on the community nurse
Author(s) -
Müller Oh
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
curationis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.408
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 2223-6279
pISSN - 0379-8577
DOI - 10.4102/curationis.v7i4.925
Subject(s) - industrial revolution , quarter (canadian coin) , scale (ratio) , agricultural revolution , third wave , history , economic history , economic growth , agriculture , political science , sociology , political economy , geography , economics , cartography , archaeology
A quarter of a century ago Mr Harold MacMillan delivered his famous Winds o f Change speech in Cape Town. In 1975 Dr. Wolff Bodenstein, in delivering a paper on primary health care, referred to the storms o f change. Now, a decade later, John Naisbitt speaks of megatrends when elaborating on change on a worldwide scale from an industrial society to an informational society. Alvin Toffler’s widely read The Third Wave speaks of similar trends on a scale comparable to the agricultural revolution and the industrial revolution