Libros sobre POLITICA SANITARIA

Hospitals are large and complex organizations, yet they function largely without sophistication and technology inherent in other large businesses. In a time when well over half of all hospitals report negative operating margins, driving down costs by achieving operational excellence is one of the most important yet overlooked areas. Healthcare operations management is the emerging discipline that integrates quantitative and qualitative aspects of management to determine the most efficient and optimal methods of supporting patient care delivery. Operations management helps hospitals and health systems understand and improve labor productivity, reduce waiting lines, shorten cycle times, and generally improve the patientrsquo;s overall experience-all of which helps to improve the organizationrsquo;s financial health. This text provides a well-rounded, comprehensive treaty on all aspects of operations management specific to the healthcare industry.nbsp; It covers everything from hospital finances to project management, patient flows, performance management, process improvement, and supply chain management.nbsp; It is written to balance theoretical and practical perspectives, by an author who has served both in senior-level management positions in large health systems, as well as extensive university research on the topic. This is an ideal text for university courses in healthcare management at all levels. It is also an excellent professional reference for healthcare administrators, clinical support managers, and supply chain professionals.

This book provides readers with an excellent summary in an easy-to-read style of this burgeoning field of research. In this volume Bennett, Gilson and Mills have gathered together essays written by academics and experts in the fields of health policy and economic development, each underscoring the need for political commitment to meet the needs of the poor and the development of strategies to build this commitment, covering:evidence regarding the links between health, economic development and household poverty evidence on the extent to which health care systems address the needs of the poor and the near poorinnovative measures to make health care interventions widely available to the poor. Current and topical, this book is of great relevance to policy makers and practitioners in the field of international health and development and researchersengaged with global health and poverty as well as being ideal reading for students of international health and development.

'Infectious Diseases in Context' is a comprehensive guide to the increasingly important topic of emerging and infectious diseases and covers the history, politics, and ethical debate related to infectious diseases. The set includes articles on how such diseases impact trade and commerce, travel and the future of industrialized and impoverished nations. The new book is cross-curricular in nature and supports curriculums in health, biology, advanced biology, and genetics, as well as history, government, and the social sciences. It brings together original essays written by leading experts in the field, primary source documents, and sidebars on the cultural, economic, and political issues surrounding the topic.

An authoritative and comprehensive guide to the major issues, challenges, methods, and approaches of global public health. This encyclopedia will cover all dimensions of the field, from details of specific diseases to the organization of social insurance agencies. A significant percentage of the articles will cover public health aspects of diseases and conditions. Other articles will survey aging, diet, injuries, ethical and legal subjects in public health, measurement and modeling, consumerism, anthropology and sociology, economics, the history of public health, and global issues.

Esta obra coral, traducida y publicada por la Junta de Andalucía, recoge diversas experiencias relacionadas con la Evaluación del Impacto en Salud (EIS) y algunas reflexiones sobre su pertinencia y viabilidad. La obra original está editada por el European Observatory of Health Systems and Policies y contiene el análisis de varios de sus expertos, resultado de un proyecto de investigación financiado con fondos de la UE. Esta obra es una buena introducción a la EIS, territorio conceptual que, con toda seguridad, va a salir de los reducidos cenáculos saludistas para cobrar notoriedad en discursos de política sanitaria más amplios. Basado en el estudio de 17 casos, en este libro puede entenderse el carácter transversal de la EIS (una pretendida seña de indentidad de la salud pública que nunca logró cuajar con fuerza), ya que su campo de acción abarca desde el transporte a la planificación urbana o al desarrollo local de los núcleos agrícolas. Con arraigo heterogéneo en las diferentes administraciones de los estados miembros de la UE, algunas experiencias relacionadas con la EIS han demostrado su eficacia para mejorar los estándares de salud de determinadas poblaciones. Otras, no han servido demasiado. En principio la EIS, aplicada a España (la obra recoge un caso español, el de la experiencia de una empresa para lograr un ambiente laboral sin tabaco) y, desde luego, aplicada a Andalucía, es todavía un melón por calar; aunque, podría decirse, tiene buena pinta. Sobre todo como vía alternativa a otras iniciativas, conocidas y fracasadas, para el anclaje efectivo de la participación ciudadana en las políticas de salud: en manos de los planificadores que manejen el lenguaje de la EIS quedará la decisión asumir, o no, esa apertura de puertas del sistema sanitario a los profanos.

Introducción a la contabilidad y gestión de costes. Mercadotecnia de la salud: marketing sanitario. Los teleasistentes sanitarios. Gestión de recursos humanos en sanidad. Servicios diagnósticos. Gestión del entorno. Calidad. Innovación, Desarrollo e Investigación (I+D+I).

Compendio divulgativo de conceptos esenciales relacionados con el cáncer. Obra patrocinada por el laboratorio Sanofi Aventis.

Análisis dirigido al público general sobre la historia, química, farmacología y usos terapéuticos de la heroína.