This ambitious book attempts to get at the root of the problems in health care, with carefully considered analyses based on data from hospital administration and social science literature, the nonmedical press, unpublished sources, and interviews with leaders of national organizations and medical policy makers. The emphasis in on four areas the author identifies as the principal stumbling blocks in the current system: an inability to deliver comprehensive care; inefficiency in cost control; nonresponsive to needs of professionals and clients; psychological insensitivity to patient needs. Additionally, strategies adapted from international politics may be an effective method of addressing the widespread problem of interorganizational relations in the medical arena.

The book presents a series of epistemological, conceptual and methodological explorations appropriate to the development of critical organizational analysis.

This ambitious book attempts to get at the root of the problems in health care, with carefully considered analyses based on data from hospital administration and social science literature, the nonmedical press, unpublished sources, and interviews with leaders of national organizations and medical policy makers. The emphasis in on four areas the author identifies as the principal stumbling blocks in the current system: an inability to deliver comprehensive care; inefficiency in cost control; nonresponsive to needs of professionals and clients; psychological insensitivity to patient needs. Additionally, strategies adapted from international politics may be an effective method of addressing the widespread problem of interorganizational relations in the medical arena.

Current significant studies of hospital management and planning. Although journal articles and other published literature are included, unpublished studies, such as those with limited or regional distribution, are also described. Focuses on the hospital and its environment, with emphasis on information gathered through structured surveys and studies. Classified arrangement. Author, source, subject, and microfilm indexes.

Moving beyond existing models from economics and political science, this book shows how crises in capitalism and democracy can be solved with Systemic coordinated inter-organizational networks. It offers a new model of societal coordination that builds cooperation and trust while solving today’s modern and complex practical problems: Systemic coordinated inter-organizational networks (SCIONs). It details how SCIONs can quickly catalyze organizational change among interorganizational network members while providing a general framework for characterizing individual and organizational change. The chapters apply these theoretical ideas in an epic case study of the rebuilding of the health care system in rural Nicaragua after a major natural disaster (Hurricane Mitch). They provide lessons for public health program managers while contributing to the literatures on modes of coordination and on social capital. The book is a vital text for upper-division courses on management, inter-organizational collaboration, crisis management and public health.