International health care management /

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Edition:1st ed.
Imprint:Amsterdam ; Boston ; Oxford : Elsevier JAI, 2005.
Description:1 online resource (xxv, 394 pages) : illustrations.
Language:English
Series:Advances in health care management, 1474-8231 ; v. 5
Advances in health care management ; v. 5.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11149753
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Other authors / contributors:Savage, Grant T. (Grant Theodore), 1954- editor.
Chilingerian, Jon A., editor.
Powell, Michael. editor.
ISBN:0080460976
9780080460970
0762312289
9780762312283
0762312289
Notes:Includes notes and bibliographical references at paper ends, and indexes.
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Summary:This volume examines international health care management. It consists of 12 papers, one of which serves as an introduction, with the other papers arranged into three sections. The first section on patients and providers focuses on such issues as how socio-cultural forces affect the health care experience; how hospital providers function differently under various governance structures; how global strategies affect providers and patients; and why and how provider organizations should consider integrating within a health delivery system. The second section on policy and management addresses such dilemmas as whether some health care issues are impossible to solve through traditional policy reforms; how international refugees should receive health care; and whether policy reform lessons from other countries can be adapted and applied to transform another country's health system. The third and final section on performance and management addresses issues such as whether the quality of care can be managed at the hospital level, how human resource management can be benchmarked within and across health care organizations, how health care informatics and telemedicine can improve the continuity of care, and whether different ways of accessing care within health systems can be systemically compared and improved.
Other form:Print version: International health care management. 1st ed. Amsterdam ; Boston ; Oxford : Elsevier JAI, 2005 0762312289