The portable health administration / edited by James T. Ziegenfuss, Jr., Joseph W. Sassani.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ziegenfuss, James T.

Sassani, Joseph W.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical care--United States.

Medical care.

Medicine--United States.

Medicine.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (341 p.)

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Boston : Academic Press, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Portable MHA is a concise, readable book that gives an overview of the information covered in a Master of Health Administration program. The material is presented in a fashion so that professionals, administrative academics, and graduate students would be able to read, understand and utilise the information. The text offers distinct benefits to a variety of users. Academic, professional and medical students will be given an understanding of the health care system in which they will have to practice. They will learn how organisations function, and the real role of leadership. Admini

Contents:

Front Cover; Portable Health Administration; Copyright Page; Contents; Contributors; Part I: Overview; Overview; Part II: Environmental Issues: Health Care Systems, Politics and Policy, and Access; Chapter 1. Health Administration: Systems, Policy, and Management; Chapter 2. How Politics Makes Health Policy; Chapter 3. Poverty and the Ethics of Equitable Access and Quality; Part III: Critical Organization & Management Elements; Chapter 4. The Tough Work of Leadership; Chapter 5. Developing Networks to Deal with Complex Health Care Problems; Chapter 6. Management Information Systems

Chapter 7 Medical Care Quality: Double-Track Thinking and ActionChapter 8. Quality Care and Academic Medical Centers: The Need for Physician Education; Chapter 9. Listening to Stakeholders: Interviews, Focus Groups, Surveys, and Direct Observation; Chapter 10. Lessons Learned from Hospital Mergers; Part IV: Finance, Economics, and Insurance; Chapter 11. It's Really Not about the Money: The Financing and Payment of Physician Services; Chapter 12. Understanding Health Insurance; Chapter 13. Implementing Cost Control in Health Care; Chapter 14. Physician Rewards in the Academic Medical Center

Part V: The FutureChapter 15. Design and Redesign of the Health Systems' Futures; Chapter 16. The Need for Health Policy Education in the Medical Curriculum; Chapter 17. Healthy Communities: Health Care for All of Us; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-281-00563-0

9786611005634

0-08-049211-8

OCLC:

437181625