Health Planning for Effective Management.

Intro -- Contents -- Contributors -- I: The Integration of Planning with Action -- 1 The Process, Structure, and Functions of Planning -- Planning Scope and Structure -- Planning as an Educational Process -- Stages of the Planning Process -- 2 Management Analysis -- Recent Directions in Health Planning -- Specific Management Issues -- 3 Health Systems Research in Relation to Planning -- Scope and Features of Research -- Illustrative Research Issues -- Approaches and Methodology -- Institutionalization of Research -- 4 Health Services Program Evaluation -- Scope and Purpose of Evaluation -- Main Features of Management Decision Making -- Capturing the Dynamics of Evaluation -- Evaluation Measures -- Evaluation Principles and Practice -- II: The Planning Process: Concepts, Methods, and Strategies -- 5 An Overview of the Planning Process -- Conceptualization of the Health Services System -- The Essence of Planning -- The Information Base -- 6 Political Aspects of Planning -- The Political Perspective -- Consequent Difficulties in Planning -- Implications of Political Issues for Planning -- Summary -- 7 Economic Aspects of Health Planning -- General Economic Concerns -- Microeconomic Considerations -- Macroeconomic Considerations -- Health Care Financing -- Some Concluding Observations -- 8 The Demographic Base for Health Planning -- General Demographic Considerations -- Sources of Demographic Data -- Errors in Demographic Data -- Specific Demographic Data Needed for Health Planning -- 9 Epidemiologic Base for Health Planning -- Scope of Concern -- Epidemiologic Measures -- Indicators -- Obtaining the Information -- Concluding Observations -- 10 Health Personnel Planning -- Supply Analysis -- Demand Analysis -- Productivity -- Will Supply Match Demand? Recommendations to Effect a Balance -- 11 Planning Health Facilities -- Scope and Importance.

Needs Assessment -- Cost Analysis and Accounting -- Focus on Implementation -- Summary -- 12 Financial Analysis -- Scope and Purposes -- Organizational Implications -- Organizational Arrangements -- Financing Mechanisms -- Timing of Program Expenditures -- Budget Preparation and Analysis -- 13 Community Involvement -- Historical Background -- Justifications for New Concepts of Community Involvement -- The Major Components of Community Involvement -- Practical Process of Implementation -- 14 Organizational Structure and Process -- Structural Considerations -- Communications Networks -- The Decision Process -- Summary -- III: Toward Plan Implementation: Analytic Techniques and Tactical Considerations -- 15 Tools for Improving the Process of Planning -- Procedures for Obtaining Group Consensus -- Logical Framework for Planning and Evaluation -- Scheduling: Network Analysis -- 16 Sample Surveys -- The Standard Error as a Measure of Imprecision -- Methods and Timing of Data Collection -- Considerations of Sample Size -- Surveys for Comparative Analysis -- 17 Population Estimates and Projections -- Preparing Forecasts -- Changing Population Characteristics -- Aggregated Effects of Changing Population Characteristics -- 18 Measurement of Health Needs and Services Utilization -- Considerations and Constraints in Measurement -- Economic Cost of Illness -- Decisions on Screening -- Analysis of Services Utilization -- Provider-Initiated Services -- 19 Personnel Analysis -- Macroanalysis -- Microanalysis -- Macro- and Microanalysis in Perspective -- 20 Cost-Benefit and Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Health Programs -- General Features of the Analysis -- Special Considerations -- Methodologic Issues -- Cost-Benefit Analysis of Family Planning Programs: A Case Study -- Cost-Effectiveness Analysis -- Summary -- 21 Synthesis of Health Needs and Resources.

Translating Facts into Priorities -- Compatibility Among Priorities and Objectives -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.

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