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"This edition comes highly commended by me, it's an excellent reference and companion to developing the experience and expertise necessary to function in today's healthcare environment."
Lord Victor O Adebowale MA CBE, Chair NHS Confederation, Leadership Coach, Executive Chairman, Visionable
"A welcome update, given the even more acute challenges we face in healthcare and policy since the last edition, with new and timely chapters, edited by two of the leading groups in healthcare management and policy."
Professor John Øvretveit, Medical Management Center, Karolinska Medical University, Sweden
This internationally renowned book is written by leading experts in the field and covers all the key aspects of healthcare management. Written with healthcare managers, professionals and students in mind, it provides an accessible and evidence-based guide to healthcare systems, services, organisations and management. Key areas covered include:
Structure and delivery of healthcare services in the global context, including mental health, acute care, primary care, chronic disease, adult social care and integrated care
Allocating resources for healthcare: healthcare finances, the economics of healthcare and managing priorities
Healthcare workforce
Research and innovation
Climate change and sustainability
Global health policy: governing health systems across borders
Service user perspectives, experiences and involvements in healthcare
Equality, diversity and inclusion
Measuring and managing health care performance
This fourth edition has been significantly rewritten, with two new editors, several new contributors and a revised chapter structure designed to better support learning, practical application and further study. In addition, there is a strengthened international focus, and each chapter includes new case studies giving global examples of health systems and services, new and updated learning activities to encourage application to your own organisation, and a range of links to useful online resources.
Healthcare Management is essential research-based and applied reading for students, teachers and healthcare professionals involved in management, research and health policy making.
Simon Moralee is Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in Healthcare Management and Head of the Health Management Group at the Alliance Manchester Business School, The University of Manchester, UK.
Manbinder Sidhu is Associate Professor at the Health Services Management Centre and Co-Director of the National Institute of Health and Care Research (NIHR) funded BRACE Rapid Evaluation Centre, the University of Birmingham, UK.
Judith Smith is Professor of Health Policy and Management at the Health Services Management Centre, the University of Birmingham, UK and Director of Health Services Research, Birmingham Health Partners, UK.
Kieran Walshe is Professor of Health Policy and Management at the Alliance Manchester Business School, The University of Manchester, UK.
Contents
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List of editors and contributors
1 Introduction: the current and future challenges of healthcare management
Judith Smith, Simon Moralee, Manbinder Sidhu and Kieran Walshe
2 Governance and leadership in healthcare
Naomi Chambers
3 Quality improvement in healthcare
Joy Furnival
4 Public health and global inequalities
Peymané Adab
5 Equality, diversity and inclusion
Sandie Dunne
6 Research and evaluation
Tara Lamont and Gareth Hooper
7 The politics of healthcare and the health policy process
Ruth Thorlby and Mark Exworthy
8 Global health: governance in a new geopolitical era
Scott L. Greer and Matthias Wismar
9 Healthcare financing
Suzanne Robinson
10 The economics of healthcare
Richard Lewis and Matthew Bell
11 Setting and managing priorities for healthcare
Iestyn Williams and Chris Q. Smith
12 Climate change and sustainability
Chris Naylor and Hayley Pinto
13 Primary care
Manbinder Sidhu and Judith Smith
14 Acute care
Nigel Edwards and Louella Vaughan
15 Integrated care
Robin Miller and Viktoria Stein
16 Mental health
Sarah-Jane Fenton and Sarah Carr
17 Adult social care
Emily Burn and Catherine Needham
18 Informatics for healthcare systems
Paul Taylor
19 Healthcare innovation
Robert J Romanelli and Sonja Marjanovic
20 The healthcare workforce
Billy Palmer
21 Service user perspectives, experiences and involvement
Jo Ellins and Tina Coldham
22 Measuring and managing healthcare performance
Arne Wolters
23 Conclusions: future challenges for healthcare managers
Simon Moralee and Manbinder Sidhu
Index
