This volume in the series focuses on improving the organizations involved in the healthcare business. Business and management researchers specializing inhealthcare look at culture, change, leadershi
The primary goal of the guideline is to improve the quality of care and the outcome in people with type 2 diabetes in low-resource settings. The guideline provides a basis for development of simple al
The aim of this document is to help countries develop competency-based educational programs in adolescent health and developmentin both pre-service and in-service education. In addition, it provides
In this Element, we examine how organizational researchers have published articles contributing to organization theory in high quality organizational journals, and we examine how healthcare researchers have drawn on organization theory inhealthcare management journals. We have two main aims in writing this Element. The first is to motivate scholars working in the field of general organizational and management studies to increasingly use healthcare settings as an empirical context for their work in theory development. Our second aim is to encourage healthcare researchers to increase their use of organizational theory to advance knowledge about the provision of healthcare services. Our investigations revealed a growing number of organizational studies situated inhealthcare. We also found a disappointing level of connection between research published inorganization journals and research published inhealthcare journals. We provide explanations for this division, and encourage more cros
A detailed practical guide to the development of high-quality national health laboratory services in South-East Asian countries. In view of the frequent absence of laboratory-based information at the
Despite long experience in fighting childhood illness and mortality, healthcare providers in LAMI countries face new challenges in promoting child development. There is, nevertheless, a wealth of inf
Our current healthcare system’s broken. The Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) predicts healthcare costs could increase from 6% to 14% of GDP by 2060. The cause of this inc
