Hospitals in a Changing Europe (European Observatory on Health Care Systems Series)
معرفی کتاب «Hospitals in a Changing Europe (European Observatory on Health Care Systems Series)» نوشتهٔ European Observatory on Health Care Systems, European Observatory on Health Care Systems, Martin McKee, Judith Healy، منتشرشده توسط نشر Open University Press در سال 2002. این کتاب در 6 صفحه، فرمت pdf، زبان انگلیسی ارائه شده است.
What roles do hospitals play in the health care system and how are these roles changing? If hospitals are to optimize health gains and respond to public expectations, how should they be configured, managed, and sustained? What lessons emerge from experiences of changing hospital systems across Europe? Hospitals of the future will confront difficult challenges: new patterns of disease, rapidly evolving medical technologies, ageing populations, and continuing budget constraints. This book explores the competing pressures facing policymakers across Europe as they struggle to respond to these complex challenges. It argues that hospitals, as part of a larger health system, should focus on enhancing health outcomes while also responding to public expectations. Adopting a cross-national, cross-disciplinary perspective, the study assesses recent evidence on the factors driving hospital reform and the strategies used to improve organizational performance. It reviews the evidence from eastern as well as western Europe and combines academic research with real-world policy experience. It looks at the role of hospitals in enhancing health rather than simply processing patients. The book concludes that hospitals cannot be managed in isolation from society and the wider health system, and that policymakers have a responsibility to define the broader health care goals that hospitals should strive to meet. "Hospitals in a Changing Europe" synthesizes current evidence in a readable and accessible form for all practitioners, policy-makers, academics and graduate level students concerned with health reform. What roles do hospitals play in the health care system and how are these roles changing? If hospitals are to optimize health gains and respond to public expectations, how should they be configured, managed, and sustained? What lessons emerge from experiences of changing hospital systems across Europe?
Hospitals of the future will confront difficult challenges: new patterns of disease, rapidly evolving medical technologies, aging populations, and continuing budget constraints. This book explores the competing pressures facing policymakers across Europe as they struggle to respond to these complex challenges. It argues that hospitals, as part of a larger health system, should focus on enhancing health outcomes while also responding to public expectations. Adopting a cross-national, cross-disciplinary perspective, the study assesses recent evidence on the factors driving hospital reform and the strategies used to improve organizational performance. It reviews the evidence from eastern as well as western Europe and combines academic research with real-world policy experience. It looks at the role of hospitals in enhancing health rather than simply processing patients. The book concludes that hospitals cannot be managed in isolation from society and the wider health system, and that policymakers have a responsibility to define the broader health care goals that hospitals should strive to meet.
Hospitals in a Changing Europe synthesizes current evidence in a readable and accessible form for all practitioners, policy-makers, academics and graduate level students concerned with health reform.
Hospitals in a changing Europe......Page 2 Contents......Page 6 List of .gures, tables and boxes......Page 8 List of contributors......Page 12 Series editors’ introduction......Page 14 Foreword......Page 16 Acknowledgements......Page 18 part one The context of hospitals......Page 20 chapter one The signi.cance of hospitals: an introduction......Page 22 chapter two The evolution of hospital systems......Page 33 chapter three Pressures for change......Page 55 chapter four The role and function of hospitals......Page 78 part two External pressures upon hospitals......Page 100 chapter five The hospital and the external environment: experience in the United Kingdom......Page 102 chapter six Are bigger hospitals better?......Page 119 chapter seven Investing in hospitals......Page 138 chapter eight Hospital payment mechanisms: theory and practice in transition countries......Page 169 chapter nine Linking organizational structure to the external environment: experiences from hospital reform in transition economies......Page 196 part three Internal strategies for change......Page 222 chapter ten Improving performance within the hospital......Page 224 chapter eleven The changing hospital workforce in Europe......Page 245 chapter twelve Introducing new technologies......Page 259 chapter thirteen Optimizing clinical performance......Page 271 chapter fourteen Hospital organization and culture......Page 284 part four Conclusions......Page 298 chapter fifteen Future hospitals......Page 300 Index......Page 304 Hospitals of the future will confront difficult challenges: new patterns of disease, rapidly evolving medical technologies, ageing populations, and continuing budget constraints. This book explores the competing pressures facing policy-makers across Europe as they struggle to respond to these comlex challenges. It argues that hospitals, as part of a larger health system, should focus on enhancing health outcomes while also responding to public expectations. Adopting a cross-national, cross- disciplinary perspective, the study assesses recent evidence on the factors driving hospital reform and the strategies used to improve organizational performance. It reviews the evidence from eastern as well as western Europe and combines academic research with real-world policy experience. It looks at the role of hospitals in enhancing health rater than simply processing patients. The book concludes that hospitals cannot be managed in isolation from society and the wider health system, and that policy-makers have responsability to define the broader health care goals that hospitals should strive to meet. McKee and Healy (both of the European Observatory on Health Care Systems) present 15 chapters exploring the role of the hospital in health care systems in Western and Eastern Europe. Addressing policy makers and other academics, the contributors discuss the history and current situation of hospital systems, look at external pressures changing their interaction with larger health care spheres, and make suggestions for governments and hospital administrators for increasing the centrality of the hospital in the promotion of public health. Distributed by Taylor & Francis. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) Hospitals are an important component of the health care system and are central to the process of reform, and yet, as institutions, they have received remarkably little attention from policy-makers and researchers.
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Hospitals of the future will confront difficult challenges: new patterns of disease, rapidly evolving medical technologies, aging populations, and continuing budget constraints. This book explores the competing pressures facing policymakers across Europe as they struggle to respond to these complex challenges. It argues that hospitals, as part of a larger health system, should focus on enhancing health outcomes while also responding to public expectations. Adopting a cross-national, cross-disciplinary perspective, the study assesses recent evidence on the factors driving hospital reform and the strategies used to improve organizational performance. It reviews the evidence from eastern as well as western Europe and combines academic research with real-world policy experience. It looks at the role of hospitals in enhancing health rather than simply processing patients. The book concludes that hospitals cannot be managed in isolation from society and the wider health system, and that policymakers have a responsibility to define the broader health care goals that hospitals should strive to meet.
Hospitals in a Changing Europe synthesizes current evidence in a readable and accessible form for all practitioners, policy-makers, academics and graduate level students concerned with health reform.
Hospitals in a changing Europe......Page 2 Contents......Page 6 List of .gures, tables and boxes......Page 8 List of contributors......Page 12 Series editors’ introduction......Page 14 Foreword......Page 16 Acknowledgements......Page 18 part one The context of hospitals......Page 20 chapter one The signi.cance of hospitals: an introduction......Page 22 chapter two The evolution of hospital systems......Page 33 chapter three Pressures for change......Page 55 chapter four The role and function of hospitals......Page 78 part two External pressures upon hospitals......Page 100 chapter five The hospital and the external environment: experience in the United Kingdom......Page 102 chapter six Are bigger hospitals better?......Page 119 chapter seven Investing in hospitals......Page 138 chapter eight Hospital payment mechanisms: theory and practice in transition countries......Page 169 chapter nine Linking organizational structure to the external environment: experiences from hospital reform in transition economies......Page 196 part three Internal strategies for change......Page 222 chapter ten Improving performance within the hospital......Page 224 chapter eleven The changing hospital workforce in Europe......Page 245 chapter twelve Introducing new technologies......Page 259 chapter thirteen Optimizing clinical performance......Page 271 chapter fourteen Hospital organization and culture......Page 284 part four Conclusions......Page 298 chapter fifteen Future hospitals......Page 300 Index......Page 304 Hospitals of the future will confront difficult challenges: new patterns of disease, rapidly evolving medical technologies, ageing populations, and continuing budget constraints. This book explores the competing pressures facing policy-makers across Europe as they struggle to respond to these comlex challenges. It argues that hospitals, as part of a larger health system, should focus on enhancing health outcomes while also responding to public expectations. Adopting a cross-national, cross- disciplinary perspective, the study assesses recent evidence on the factors driving hospital reform and the strategies used to improve organizational performance. It reviews the evidence from eastern as well as western Europe and combines academic research with real-world policy experience. It looks at the role of hospitals in enhancing health rater than simply processing patients. The book concludes that hospitals cannot be managed in isolation from society and the wider health system, and that policy-makers have responsability to define the broader health care goals that hospitals should strive to meet. McKee and Healy (both of the European Observatory on Health Care Systems) present 15 chapters exploring the role of the hospital in health care systems in Western and Eastern Europe. Addressing policy makers and other academics, the contributors discuss the history and current situation of hospital systems, look at external pressures changing their interaction with larger health care spheres, and make suggestions for governments and hospital administrators for increasing the centrality of the hospital in the promotion of public health. Distributed by Taylor & Francis. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) Hospitals are an important component of the health care system and are central to the process of reform, and yet, as institutions, they have received remarkably little attention from policy-makers and researchers.