Varying factors such as the aging of the population, the increasing burden of chronic conditions and the recent global pandemic have highlighted the need for a redesign of healthcare production processes.
With unintended harm during hospital care costing billions of dollars to the world economy, not to mention millions of deaths each year, it's no wonder the issue is equally front and center in the minds of healthcare providers and the public.
Appropriate laws and regulations are an essential tool to direct the action of procurers toward the public good and avoid corruption and misallocation of resources.
Networks and other collaborations are central to the public sector's ability to respond to their diverse responsibilities, from international development and regional governance, to policy development and service provision.
Winner of the Association of Fundraising Professionals 2014 Skystone Partners Research Prize in Philanthropy and FundraisingTraditionally, institutions have relied on wealthy White men to reach their fundraising goals.
Originally published in 1984, this book grew out of the papers (and discussions) presented at the Seminar conducted at London Business School during March-June 1983, with a focus on the problems of public enterprise in the context of the developing world.
This book investigates what faith means in the actual day-to-day practice of faith-based NGOs working in the development, humanitarian, and advocacy sectors.
Intuitive Imagery puts the discoveries of modern science to work through asimple, proven technology to meet the challenges of our fast-paced changing world.
This book promotes an understanding of the purposeful muddling that health care workers rely on to be better able to function and operate in the multitude of complex ecosystems we call "e;health care.
Series Editors: Moira Stewart, Judith Belle Brown and Thomas R Freeman The application of the patient-centered clinical method has received international recognition.
One of the latest developments being pursued by the World Health Organization (WHO) and other international organizations (ILO, ISO), in relation to preventing work-related diseases and disorders, concerns the creation of "e;toolkits"e; and, within them, of simple tools.
An expert guide to contemporary research in the field of emergency services management, this short-form book will help academics, scholars, and practitioners to appreciate the important role and contribution of these services.
The editors of the HIMSS Books' best-seller mHealth: From Smartphones to Smart Systems (603) have returned to deliver an expansive survey of the initiatives, innovators, and technologies driving the patient-centered mobile healthcare revolution.
Research shows that the importance of patient-reported outcomes, improved decision support, and care coordination is growing rapidly as new payment models transform healthcare delivery.
Although co-design has been practised in new service and product development for some years, it has only recently begun to appear in the burgeoning field of social innovation.
"e;Applied Econometrics for Health Economists"e; introduces readers to the appropriate econometric techniques for use with different forms of survey data, known collectively as microeconometrics.
Management and leadership are increasingly important within the organisation and delivery of social care services and now form part of the post qualification framework for social workers.
Weigh pivotal healthcare ethics, law, and public policy issues that resulted in tipping-point legal actionsWeighing the ethical considerations in healthcare and drug issues can be emotionally difficult and mentally challenging.
With a focus on the progression and dismantlement of the Asylum system, this book examines key issues around the policy and practice of in-patient mental health provision in the UK, making comparisons with similar services in other parts of the world.
Drawing on a lifetime of experience, Roger Dobbah gives readers an in-depth view of R&D survival strategies and tactics and demonstrates how to apply them to any organization.
This book should prove valuable in relieving stress and anxiety, especially important nowadays as the journey from diagnosis to cure or death is longer due to improvements in medical treatments.
As the most common health-care intervention, prescription drug use shares the most important characteristics of the health-care system in the United States.
Academic Health Science Centers are complex organizations with three principal functions: the education of the next generation of health professionals; the conduct of biomedical and clinical research that leads to new treatments and approaches to disease; and the delivery of comprehensive and advanced patient care.
About the BookThe book provides details of applying intelligent mining techniques for extracting and pre-processing medical data from various sources, for application-based healthcare research.
AI in Hospital Administration: Revolutionizing Healthcare is a groundbreaking book that explores the transformative potential of artificial intelligence (AI) in hospital administration and its impact on revolutionizing healthcare.
As the population ages and healthcare costs continue to soar, the focus of the nation and the healthcare industry turns to reducing costs and making the delivery process more efficient.
Following on from the success of the editors' previous book, New Public Management: The Transformation of Ideas and Practice, which examined the public reform process up to the end of the last decade, this new volume draws on the previous knowledge both theoretically and empirically.