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People use health care services for different reasons—to cure illnesses and health conditions, to mend breaks and tears, to prevent or delay future health care problems, to reduce pain and increase quality of life, and sometimes merely to obtain information about their health status and prognosis. Health care use can be suitable or unsuitable, of high or low quality, expensive or inexpensive. The health care delivery system of today has undergone tremendous change, even over the relatively short period of the past decade. Quality healthcare is one of the most significant factors in how individuals recognize their quality of life. In most countries, together with the economy, it is the major political issue. In some countries, the healthcare delivery organization is a fragment of the national identity. It is time for a new understanding in every aspect of the healthcare ecosystem, where every performer, from governments to enterprises to individuals, is convoluted in cultivating healthcare. Healthcare is changing more rapidly than almost any other field. Future medical and health services managers must be prepared to deal with the integration of health care delivery systems, technological innovations, an increasingly complex regulatory environment, restructuring of work and an increased focus on preventive care. With growing diversity in the healthcare system, executives are needed in many settings, Clinics, Consulting firms, Health insurance organizations, Healthcare associations, Hospitals, Medical Supplies, and more. Overview of the healthcare system and the role hospitals have played and continue to play in the future. Analysis of organizational structure of a hospital and other healthcare agencies, administrative and management elements necessary for policy determination, decision making, and control to achieve institutional goals and objectives.
This book entitled with “Healthcare Administration and Policy” presents an introduction to the historical and cultural development of modern healthcare administration in contemporary society. The functions of supervisory management: planning, organizing, staffing, influencing, and controlling; as well as the connective processes of decision-making, coordinating, and communicating in healthcare organizations are also delved. The book also introduces the student to a sound foundation in well-established ethical theories and a familiarity with terms, concepts and issues in ethics as applied to the health professions. Also provides practical methods for proceeding from considered reflection to informed action in solving ethical problems. Dealing with the nature, scope, role of health care administration and its relationship with socio-economic development, this book serves as valuable guide to healthcare students as well as for policy makers in healthcare industry.
