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The Market and Health Sector Reform

Journal of Management in Medicine, 1994
A new international orthodoxy has developed on health sector reform. The dominant theme of the orthodoxy is the alleged benefits of market style reforms for health development. This is shaping changes formulated, and being implemented, in the British NHS and other European health services (including Central and Eastern Europe), Latin America and a ...
C, Collins, D J, Hunter, A, Green
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Abnormal economics in the health sector

Health Policy, 1995
The implosion of centrally-planned economies has led to a widespread and uncritical belief that a free market is the best mechanism for structuring the economic and social sectors. Many international agencies have pushed this belief on the developing nations.
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Interorganizational linkages in the health sector

Health Care Management Review, 1990
A key element in the success of organizations in the health sector is the maintenance of effective interorganizational linkages with interdependent organizations. A conceptual framework is posited of three general classes of mechanisms through which these linkages are managed.
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Best practice in the health sector

Australian Health Review, 1996
The Commonwealth Government is increasing its emphasis on public health andquality of care, which will require a capacity to measure health outcomes and developstrategies for continuous improvement. The reforms being considered by the Councilof Australian Governments (COAG) are designed to improve the quality of healthservices by allowing the ...
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Health Management for the Health Sector

2016
The discussions and analysis of the preceding sections reveal the need for management skills in the health sector for the delivery of health-care services to the right people at the right time and even more importantly at affordable prices. Health economics focusses attention to the ways and means of utilising the scarce resources in the health sector ...
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Telemedicine and the organization of the health sector

Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare, 1999
The widespread introduction of telemedicine would have organizational consequences for the health sector. However, the problem of health-sector organization is complex. A general frame work for analysis of organizational consequences has been developed and consists of eight points.
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Financial Management in the Health Sector

1994
All Central and East European countries have embarked upon large privatization programs. Although the elaboration of specific issues shows interesting differences (see OECD 1992) these programs show a common concern for the transfer of property rights in the (formerly public) business sector (comprising inter alia industry, banking and finance, and ...
Boorsma, Peter B., Crijns, Ron J.H.A.
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Health sector

Surveillance was instrumental in managing the COVID-19 pandemic. Various methods helped track cases, variants, and disease severity. In addition, the data aided authorities in identifying waves, gauging control measures, and estimating transmission rates.
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Health-sector disparities in Peru

1993
Abstract This chapter summarizes some of the major findings of a comprehensive study, the Health Sector Analysis of Peru (HSAP), carried out in 1985−6 by a team of Peruvian and international researchers (HSAP 1986). The HSAP was designed to test the premiss − shared by Peruvian health-sector authorities and foreign aid officials ...
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STRENGTHENING HEALTH PROMOTION IN THE COMMUNITY HEALTH SECTOR

Community Health Studies, 1986
AbstractCommunity health practitioners and administrators are exhorted to pursue community‐wide effort to reduce risks to health, as a priority. The development of more effective, community‐based health promotion initiatives requires a consideration of the range of different levels at which health promotion can be approached, and the judicious ...
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