Managing Health Services Organizations and Systems | 
| Authors: Beaufort B., Jr., Ph.d. Longest, Kurt Darr Publisher: Health Professions Pr Category: Book
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Media: Hardcover Edition: 5 Number Of Items: 1 Pages: 664 Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.6 Dimensions (in): 10.3 x 7.2 x 1.5
ISBN: 1932529357 Dewey Decimal Number: 362.1068 EAN: 9781932529357 ASIN: 1932529357
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Product Description From the recognized experts in health administration comes a newly revised edition of the authoritative text for health services managers! Articulate and highly readable, the fifth edition of Managing Health Services Organizations and Systems examines virtually every aspect of health services management.
While still providing comprehensive coverage of the conceptual frameworks for managing the organization and delivery of health services, the fifth edition has been streamlined for a more focused and integrated presentation of material. Increased emphasis on public health and delivery of public health services is incorporated throughout the text, and expanded content on strategic planning and marketing is offered in separate chapters. A host of other improvements include
* 56 case studies, many new or revised
* extensively updated chapter on healthcare technology
* more figures and tables
* new discussion questions among scores suggested throughout the text
* completely revised instructor s manual with additional cases not included in the text
* comprehensive index
With these extensive revisions, you can be confident that Managing Health Services Organizations and Systems, Fifth Edition, will provide your students with the comprehensive information you have come to expect on health services management. Future health care services managers will benefit from information on managerial problem solving, resource allocation and utilization, effective communication, organizational culture, continuous quality improvement, human resources, facilitation of change, and ethical and legal responsibilities.
Teach your students how to tackle the challenging issues facing today s health services managers with the text trusted by more than 250 colleges and universities across the country. Order this new and improved edition of the best health services management text on the market today!
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not for layman July 25, 2008 There are certain books used in graduate Health Care Admin classes. This is one of them. This book is not easy to digest and it was not meant to be. It approaches wide range of topics regarding health care management in US, but not in great details. For greater details one needs subject specif books. Overall I would say this is a good graduate-level intro to health care management book. I have the 4th ed, which was published in 2004. I found myself constantly going back to it. It's missing a star because it does not have a table or a key section for abbreviated terms; the authors assume that we know or love spending time looking up for hundreds of terms they probably defined in previous chapters. Also I would have liked to see brief contents and a detailed contents in the beginning. 4th ed. has only detailed contents. So, for example, if you are looking for a chapter on HR, if you had brief content, you'll see that chapter starts from page 531, but in detailed content you have to flip through 7 content pages to find it.
The book is a little hard to read October 1, 2007 My professor warned us in advance that it will be a hard read.. IT IS but I have to read it for Health Care Management.
Enjoying this book so far!! September 28, 2007 This is the required book for my Health Service Administration course. It is well written and has excellent case studies with each unit.
I hate this book!! February 26, 2004 4 out of 9 found this review helpful
I absolutely without a doubt hate this book. It is a required book for a course that I am taking. It uses way to many initials instead of writing the complete name of each organization, so unless you have one heck of a memory you arn't sure which organization that those initials stand for. It is a very hard book to sit down and read because it is way to boring, the authors go on and on about about the topics instead of presenting the topics in a clear straight forward way. The questions at the end of each chapter are mostly based on your opinion, so you are never quite sure if your answer is correct or not. I can't wait till this class is over so that I never have to read this book again!!!
U wanna know why this is an excellent book October 30, 2000 3 out of 22 found this review helpful
I rate this book as an excellent book because it has covered a wide variety of things you would like to learn in health services.
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