Product Description: James Begun and Jan Malcolm combine the wisdom of an academic and a practitioner to provide a comprehensive, accessible guide to impactful public health leadership. It is timely because now more than ever the stakes and oppotunities are high...read more

Product Description: The goal of improving public health involves the use of different tools, with the law being one way to influence the activities of institutions and individuals. Of the regulatory mechanisms afforded by law to achieve this end, criminal law remains a perennial mechanism to delimit the scope of individual and group conduct...read more

Product Description: This foundational text introduces future health care administrators to the full scope of responsibilities associated with these crucial positions. Fundamentals of Health Care Administration prepares students for comprehensive education on the health care industry, and helps them build the strong critical thinking and analysis skills they will need as administrators...read more

Product Description: The long-standing debate on public vs. private healthcare systems has forced an examination of these organizations, in particular whether these approaches play corresponding or conflicting roles in service to global citizens.Healthcare Management and Economics: Perspectives on Public and Private Administration discusses public and private healthcare organizations by gathering perspectives on the differences in service, management, delivery, and efficiency...read more

Product Description: During the last twenty years, the interest in public health leadership has continued to increase with the need to strengthen the infrastructure of public health, the events of September 11, 2001, the health reform movement, scientific breakthroughs, the increasing role for primary care programs in the public health agenda, and the increasing deficit at the federal, state, and local level...read more

Product Description: During the last twenty years, the interest in public health leadership has continued to increase with the need to strengthen the infrastructure of public health, the events of September 11, 2001, the health reform movement, scientific breakthroughs, the increasing role for primary care programs in the public health agenda, and the increasing deficit at the federal, state, and local level...read more

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Product Description: In today’s turbulent and financially stressful times, public health managers need business planning skills. They need to become “civic entrepreneurs,” who can creatively finance and manage needed programs using business school savvy...read more

Product Description: This textbook examines how health departments conduct their business and develop new programs, what techniques they use to hire and discipline employees, and the role of the media in public health. Each of the 35 chapters begins with a case study that illustrates data management, local government, organizational behavior, salary, union relation, b...read more

This timely revision addresses all the important topics in the effective management of public health departments and agencies. Using a practical, non-theoretical approach, the book is ideal for the hands on management of these complex organizations and their daily operations. The Second Edition has been thoroughly revised with all new case studies for each chapter as well as the most up-to-date information on critical, contemporary topics in management, human resources, operations, and more, all within the context of the public health department.

Product Description: This essential resource shows how to effectively organize, implement, and evaluate health programs and projects. Managing Health Programs and Projects clearly defines and describes the work of managers in health programs and projects...read more

Product Description: 'Increasingly, doctors are seeing the value of learning the language of management. A number of doctors have learnt the language and skills by gaining a formal qualification such as an MBA. Many more have followed an experiential route...read more

Product Description: As urban populations grow, new health problems evolve in tandem with longstanding issues. And as a welter of social, environmental, and access factors further complicate the picture, workable solutions require increasingly sophisticated understanding and innovative methods—generally beyond the scope of one professional field...read more

Product Description: In the late 1960s, American society entered a period of rapidly accelerating social change. Certainty that U.S. vast scientific and technical capability would be able to find solutions to all problems began to turn to concern, as organizational efforts were unable to keep pace with new developments in a variety of areas...read more

Product Description: • Does investing in health raise economic growth? • Can governments achieve rapid growth or high incomes without investing in health? • What are the options and benefits of different analytic approaches to measuring the causal link between health and growth? • Have medical advances influenced life expectancy levels? • Do health investments lead to higher individual productivity? • Why are investments in early childhood development and nutrition important? • How do governments invest in improving health status? • Where should governments invest in health to improve the welfare and health status of the population? • What are the pitfalls in public health care provision and finance? • How can public investments raise health status and household productivity?This book has been prepared for the Commission on Growth and Development to evaluate the state of knowledge on the relationship between health and economic growth...read more

Product Description: In today’s busy public health workplace, public health managers need guidance on how best to fulfill the many roles they play, as leaders, administrators, fundraisers, and internal and external communicators. This book serves as an easily-accessible source of practical information for the public health manager, with chapters on such topics as: How to be an effective coach to maximize your team’s performance The essentials of effective partnerships and other relationships How to create and sustain successful public health initiatives using business skills How to run meetings, manage electronic correspondence, manage your relationship with your boss and otherwise keep the modern public health organization running smoothl...read more

Product Description: • Does investing in health raise economic growth? • Can governments achieve rapid growth or high incomes without investing in health? • What are the options and benefits of different analytic approaches to measuring the causal link between health and growth? • Have medical advances influenced life expectancy levels? • Do health investments lead to higher individual productivity? • Why are investments in early childhood development and nutrition important? • How do governments invest in improving health status? • Where should governments invest in health to improve the welfare and health status of the population? • What are the pitfalls in public health care provision and finance? • How can public investments raise health status and household productivity?This book has been prepared for the Commission on Growth and Development to evaluate the state of knowledge on the relationship between health and economic growth...read more