Strategic Issues and Challenges in Health Management
- K V Ramani - Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, India
- Dileep V Mavalankar - Indian Institute of Public Health, Gandhinagar, India
- Dipti Govil - Indian Institute of Managemant, Ahmedabad
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.
The title is sure to be an invitation for public health scholars and health management professionals. The issues on which the volume is foregrounded include complexities and uniqueness of India’s healthcare system fast-evolving technology and mechanism of health financing in a globalizing world…. The editors have done well to show the ‘directions for the future’.
This book touches upon a series of topics for better understanding of how health sector in India should be managed…. [The book ] gives a good perspective by bringing together a range of diverse management issues and highlights some deficiency that needs to be addressed…. This book aims to be of interest to professionals, students and scholars of health economics and those working in the area of health and strategic management… In the background of scarce literature on management of the health sector in India, this book provides an introduction to some topics of relevance to the health sector management.
The book discusses some extremely important and useful dimensions of health care and health management system and can be useful for the students of health economics, health policy planners and other health professionals.