Strategic Management and Economics in Health Care

• Main Authors: Chletsos, Michael (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Saiti, Anna (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Medical education.; Health care management.; Health services administration.; Medical Education.; Health Care Management.

This book offers significant managerial and economic knowledge on hospitals, and will serve as a valuable tool for explaining complicated managerial and economical problems, and for facilitating decision-making processes. It bridges management and economic sciences - two complementary sciences that...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. Basic dimensions of strategic management
• Chapter 2. Environment and health care units
• Chapter 3. Process of strategic management
• Chapter 4. Strategic Planning in the health care sector
• Chapter 5. Strategic Changes in the Health Care Sector
• Chapter 6. Total Quality Management and Health Care Sector
• Chapter 7. For-profit versus not-for profit hospitals and public hospitals
• Chapter 8. The Economics of Hospitals
• Chapter 9. Hospitals as suppliers of healthcare services
• Chapter 10. Financing hospitals
• Chapter 11. Hospital efficiency and performance.