Health services management
The rapidly changing and increasingly complex health services industry poses significant challenges for health services management, responsible for planning, directing, coordinating and supervising the delivery of healthcare. Improving service delivery and ensuring better access is complicated by increasing demand due to technological advance, consumer demand, and changes in demography and epidemiology.
Health policies, strategies and plans must address both supply and demand side issues to ensure the most efficient management of resources while improving quality and effectiveness. To do this, health services management has to lead the transformation of services at the same time as achieving cost containment and effective performance.
- Factors influencing implementation of the community health fund in Tanzania
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This paper, published in Health Policy and Planning, reports on the findings of a study that examines the factors influencing low enrolment in Tanzania’s health prepayment schemes (community health fund). Prepayment schemes are hailed internationally as part of a broader solution to health care financing problems in low income countries.
Recommended readings
- Matching demand and supply fairly and efficiently
- ( D. Pencheon / British Medical Journal , 1998)
- Increased demand for a product can usually be dealt with either by reducing demand through raising prices or by increasing supply. In health care often the opposite of both is the case: expectations ...
- Health sector reform: improving hospital efficiency
- ( K. Grant; V. Walford / Department for International Development Health Systems Resource Centre , 1998)
- This document discusses different strategies to improve hospital efficiency in low-income countries. Since hospital creation and maintenance represent a major share of health expenditure, increasing ...
- Financing health systems through efficiency gains
- ( M. Hensher / Commission on Macroeconomics and Health, WHO , 2001)
- This working paper, produced for the Commission on Macroeconomics and Health, assesses the potential improvements to health financing in developing countries to be derived from better technical and ec...
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- Choosing medical supplies with care: a comprehensive guide
- ( M. Kaur;S. Hall / ECHO International Health Services Ltd , 2009)
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Choosing supplies and equipment is often given little thought or attention. This can result in procurement of inappropriate supplies and equipment. Items can be inappropriate because they are techn...
- Targeting aid funds towards health services in Afghanistan
- ( S. Simmonds;F. Ferozuddin / Chatham House [Royal Institute of International Affairs], UK , 2008)
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How can aid funds best be spent in areas of high instability? This scoping study from the British Department for International Development (DFID) argues that development funds would have the m...
