EAN: 9783319535999

THE MYTHS OF HEALTH CARE GEBUNDEN

This provocative appraisal unpacks commonly held beliefs about healthcare management and
replaces them with practical strategies and realistic policy goals. Using Henry Mintzberg¿s
¿Myths of Healthcare¿ as a springboard  it reveals management practices that undermine care
delivery  explores their cultural and corporate origins  and details how they may be reversed
through changes in management strategy  organization  scale  and style. Tackling conventional
wisdom about decision-making  cost-effectiveness  service quality  and equity  contributors
fine-tune concepts of mission and vision by promoting collaboration  engagement  and common
sense. The book¿s multidisciplinary panel of experts analyzes the most popular healthcare
management ¿myths ¿ among them: · The healthcare system is failing. · The healthcare system can
be fixed through social engineering. · Healthcare institutions can be fixed by bringing in the
heroic leader. · The healthcare system can be fixed by treating it more as a business. ·
Healthcare is rightly left to the private sector  for the sake of efficiency. The Myths of
Health Care speaks to a large  diverse audience: scholars of all levels interested in the
research in health policy and management  graduate and under-graduate students attending
courses in leadership and management of public sector organization  and practitioners in the
field of health care.

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