Key Concepts in Healthcare Policy and Planning: An Introductory Text

ISBN-13: 9780333777404 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 143 str.

Colin Palfrey

Opis

This concise, introductory textbook provides an engaging and accessible introduction to health policy and planning. Aimed at students of nursing, medicine and other health disciplines, as well as practitioners, the book examines key concepts and models of health policy and planning in such a way that they can be applied to any national context. The final result will stimulate discussion amongst students of health care management in a context free from ethnocentric limitations.

Spis treści

What is 'Health Policy' and Why Do We Need it?.- Power and Policy-Making.- Models of the Policy Process.- Policy Implementation.- Policy Evaluation.- Health Care Planning.- Different Approaches to Health Care Planning.- Information Needs for Health Care Planning 1.- Information Needs for Health Care Planning 2.- Health Care Planning: Current and Future Issues.

O autorze

COLIN PALFREY is an Education Consultant working as a Lecturer in Health Care Policy and Planning and as a Researcher for a Housing Trust. He has worked in the United Kingdom, the Middle East and the Far East, running Health Care Planning courses.