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Book SynopsisExamines international health care management. This work consists of 12 papers, and explores the delivery and organization of care in health systems from Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, and South America, encompassing more than 20 countries in their comparisons.
Table of ContentsForeword. A Framework for the Developing Field of International Health Care Management. (J.A. Chilingerian et al.). Introduction. The Emerging Field of International Health Care Management: An Introduction. (J.A. Chilingerian, G.T. Savage). Patients and Providers. Stories from Santiago: HIV/AIDS and Needed Health Systems Change. (L.M. Ferrer, M. Issel, R. Cianelli). A Comparative Analysis of Hospital Management Systems in South Africa. (A. Mills, J. Broomberg). American Hospital Firms and the Burgeoning Chinese Private Health Market. (B.D. Gifford, D. Wood). Integrated Health Care Delivery Based on Transaction Cost Economics: Experiences from California and Cross-National Implications. (K. Janus, V. Amelung). Policy. Wicked Health Care Issues: An Analysis of Finnish and Swedish Health Care Reforms. (P. Vartiainen). The Management of Care For International Refugees: A Comparative Analysis of Policies and Outcomes. (R. Collins Wilson). Taiwan's National Health Insurance: A Decade of Change in Health Care Policy and Management Responses. (J.C. Romeis, Shuen-Zen Liu, M.A. Counte). Performance. Measuring and Managing Quality in Hospitals: Lessons from a French Experiment. (E. Minvielle, J.R. Kimberly). A Diagnostic Tool for HRM Benchmarking within a Health Care System. (T. Mazzarol, G.N. Soutar, D. Adam). Implementing a Regional Health Information Network: Impact on Health Care Performance and the Management of Change. (M. Tsiknakis et al.). The Relevance of Health Care Access Systems: An Exploratory Study of Seven Industrialized Countries. (P. Parvinen, G.T. Savage).
