Handbook of Health Administration and Policy

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Anne Kilpatrick
CRC Press, Nov 23, 1998 - Political Science - 1120 pages
This comprehensive text offers a broad view of health care policy, health services delivery and organization, and health care management. Drawing on the insights of over 100 scholars and leading practitioners, it highlights organizational changes reflected in health care mergers, networks, and affiliations and describes the role of funding agencies in the direct provision of services. Providing over 2350 references, tables, and drawings, the book charts the influences of managed care on provisions, funding, and the configuration of providers and services, and portrays the increasingly influential and challenging role of health administrators.

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Contents

Kilpatrick and Johnson
1
Federalism and Health Care
25
28
45
Professional Regulation
51
The Health Care Delivery System
53
Occupational and Environmental Issues Facing Health Care Managers
65
Impacts of Cost Containment
81
Private Insurance Options
101
33
557
Planning Management and Critical Success Factors
637
Managing Financial Resources
643
38
645
Strategic Planning in a VA Medical Center
655
40
669
41
681
Managing Health Care Organizations
705

Challenges of Health Finance and Managed Care
121
Managed Care
137
Indigent Health Care
165
Integrated Health Care Systems
177
11
193
Community Hospitals and Networks
207
13
224
14
238
16
275
Rural Health Care
291
Community Health Centers
303
Community Health Nursing
313
Primary Care Network Development and Management Service
329
22
337
CommunityBased Long Term Care
351
23
360
Reding
375
Social Legal and Ethical Issues
389
American Health Care Governance
405
Alysia Olshinski
421
Mirvis
439
421
461
Assessing and Evaluating Health Care
477
30
495
Judith T Barr
511
32
529
Governing Hospitals Medical Groups and Systems
723
Project Management
745
The Physician Executive
759
Information Technology to Assure Quality Care at Reasonable Cost
773
Accessing Online Health Resources
793
A Case Study
805
Managed Care and Networked Information Systems
825
Managing Human Resources
843
Job Analysis
861
Developing Learning Organizations
879
Recruitment and Interviewing
899
Conflict Resolution
921
Mediation
943
Job Satisfaction
953
Leadership
961
Financial Accounting
971
MicroFinancial Analysis
1001
Executive Budget Management
1023
Flash Management
1043
THE FUTURE OF HEALTH CARE
1049
Developing HighInvolvement Organizations for the Future
1061
Values Health Care and Policymaking
1073
Implications for Executives
1091
Glossary
1103
Index
1113
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