Product Description: While the majority of high-tech, cutting-edge cancer prevention and treatment is taking place at major research centres, most people rely on medical care from local health care organizations. Drawing on the findings of the Community Clinical Oncology Program (CCOP) - a project that linked 52 American communities to major cancer research centres - Kaluzny and Warnecke offer evidence and specific strategies for linking clinical research facilities and consumers...read more

Product Description: The must-have text for every public health practitioner involved in ma naged care and public health. Managed Care and Public Health reveals t he hottest trends and issues emerging among managed care and public he alth organizations, and examines a wide range of real-life partnership s with the private sector...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Thoroughly revised and updated to address the ever changing health care systems. Examine the philosophy of CQI/TQM and provides guidelines for implementation.

Product Description: This carefully researched assessment presents a reasonably accurate map of the health care system: the white labyrinth, with the organizational mechanisms that underlie its operations and strategies and approaches to change.

Product Description: Taking into account the disciplines of operations management, organizational behavior, and health services research, McLaughlin and Kaluzny (both emeritus, business administration and health policy, respectively, U. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) introduce the field, paying special attention to the tools and approaches of Total Quality Manageme...read more