Managing Health Services
A Basic Text
Stephen Harrison(Author)
Open University Press
Published in December 1996
Book
Hardback
192 pages
978-0-335-19107-9 (ISBN)
Description
This work aims to provide a foundation for the study and practice of health services management. Though focused principally on the UK, its analysis is applicable more generally to the public and private health sectors of developed countries. Drawing largely on approaches from policy analysis and economics, this book: identifies the special features of health services and their implications for mangement; provides a minimum set of essential concepts for managing health services; and analyzes the main organizational dynamics of health services and how managers can intervene in them.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Milton Keynes
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
index
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
Weight
300 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-335-19107-9 (9780335191079)
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Content
The health service policy puzzle and its consequences for managers; measuring health services and their "product"; describing the formal organization; power and culture in health service organizations; an introduction to policy analysis; negotiation - the crucial skill; ethics and health services - who occupies the moral ground.