Understanding health care systems for improved management. 0000

Health systems are extremely complex organizations that must respond to multiple needs. Providing coordinated and integrated delivery of services involves a great number of professionals, managers, organizations and support staff. The purpose of this book is to simplify this reality to make it more easily understandable and manageable. The various aspects of the systems and the many inter-related activities are explained here in an approach geared to selflearning. Each chapter opens with specific objectives and gives exercises at the end to verify knowledge acquisition.