Full Description
The Indian health system has a poor global ranking. A new perspective on health system planning and development is required to improve the situation and build a health system responsive to the needs of the country. Strategic Issues and Challenges in Health Management addresses these concerns while also highlighting the challenges in delivering efficient and effective health services.
The book discusses health sector reforms like financing, Public-Private Partnership (PPP), higher efficiency and cost-effectiveness. It deals with national health programmes, focusing on maternal and child health, infectious diseases, tuberculosis and malaria. The problems of urban health in the context of transition of the demographic and disease pattern in urban areas is also brought to the fore. Critical issues related to health and economic development, future challenges facing health systems, the policy challenges facing the implementation of the PPP approach, the issue of equity in health financing, as well as the roadblocks to efficient establishment of PPP are analysed.
The book also deals with restructuring of the health system, while exploring capacity development as a process of health management. Written by well-known academics, health policy makers and health managers, this volume shall be of interest to health professionals, students and scholars of health economics, as well as those working in the areas of health and strategic management.
Contents
Introduction
Scaling Up Health In Low-Income Settings - JEFFREY D SACHS
Health Systems - Vision 2020 - ANDREW GREEN
Equitable Health Finance: A Dream Or A Reality? - G. N. V. RAMANNA
Public-Private Patnership In Health Care - MEENAKSHI DATTA GHOSH
Private-Public Participation In The Control Of TB In Tamil Nadu And Kerala - MURLEEDHARAN, STEPHEN ANDREWS And STEPHEN JAN
Public-Private Partnership - The Sri Lankan Experience - ARUNAL RABEL
Governance In Health System - S. R. RAO
Good Governance In Health Services - H SUDARSHAN
Strategic Leadership & Health Care Delivery - BRIG JOE CURIAN
Capacity Development - Future Challenges In Health Management - NANCY GEREIN
Capacity Development Model In Enhancing Health Care Services - Aravind Eye Care Model - KEERTI PRADHAN
Managing AIDS Control Programme In India - R. SADANANDAN
National Rural Health Mission - An Introduction - D. MAVALANKAR
Achieving The Millennium Development Goals For Maternal & Newborn Health - ARDI KAPTININGSIH
Role Of Community Participation For Maternal & Child Health - Selected Cases - URVASHI CHANDRA
Managing Urban Health Through PPP - A Study Of Ahmedabad - K. V. RAMANI, DILEEP MAVALANKAR, AMIT PATEL, SWETA MEHANDIRATTA
Standards Of Medical Care - Is India Ready? - MICHAEL FRIEDMAN
Challenges And Approaches Towards Control Of Chronic Diseases In A Developing Country - A. NANDAKUMAR
Health Care Delivery Challenges For Chronic Diseases In India - A VAIDHEESH
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