Health Services Planning


Book Description

-First edition by McGraw-Hill, 1998. -Textbook for courses on health administration and planning -Author is fairly well-known in the field.







Improving Healthcare Quality in Europe Characteristics, Effectiveness and Implementation of Different Strategies


Book Description

This volume, developed by the Observatory together with OECD, provides an overall conceptual framework for understanding and applying strategies aimed at improving quality of care. Crucially, it summarizes available evidence on different quality strategies and provides recommendations for their implementation. This book is intended to help policy-makers to understand concepts of quality and to support them to evaluate single strategies and combinations of strategies.







Health Services Planning


Book Description

Health services planning is the process by which healthcare organizations appraise the health needs of a community and determine how best to meet these needs through existing and future facilities and programs. Thomas, a consultant, provides an understanding of the key concepts related to the planning process, and offers step-by-step guidelines for researching and developing a health services plan at both the systems and organizational levels. Case studies that illustrate the application of health services planning are included. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR