Health Services Planning - Richard K. Thomas

Health Services Planning

-First edition by McGraw-Hill, 1998.
-Textbook for courses on health administration and planning





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-First edition by McGraw-Hill, 1998.
-Textbook for courses on health administration and planning





-Author is fairly well-known in the field.
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Forlag: Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Innbinding: Innbundet
Språk: Engelsk
Sider: 464
ISBN: 9781071610756
Utgave: 3. utg.
Format: 24 x 16 cm
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Preface or Foreword (TBD): Why a new edition now (last 2003)



Chapter 1: Introduction to Health Services Planning



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Chapter 2: Overview of Health Planning



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* Role of the Affordable Care Act and other legislative developments



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Chapter 3: The Social Context for Health Services Planning



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Chapter 4: The Health Systems Context for Health Services Planning

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New Chapter TBD: Insert chapter on the changing perception of health status, the emergence of the population health movement, and the shift in emphasis from the healthcare system to the community



Chapter 5: Health Services Demand and Utilization



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Chapter 6: The Planning Process



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Chapter 7: The Community Assessment Process



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Chapter 8: The Planning Audit (consider combining parts of Chapters 6-7)



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Chapter 9: Strategic Planning (more distinctly separate from Chapters 6-7)



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Chapter 10: Marketing Planning



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Chapter 11: Business Planning



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Chapter 12: Research Methods



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Chapter 13: Information Resources and Data Management



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Chapter 14: The Future of Health Services Planning



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Appendices



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Richard K. Thomas, PhD, is vice president of Health and Performance Resources in Memphis, Tennessee, USA, and author, speaker, and consultant. He has been involved in healthcare market research, planning, and business development with hospitals, clinics, health plans, and other healthcare organizations in both the public and private sectors for more than 40 years. Dr. Thomas holds master's degrees in sociology and geography from the University of Memphis and a PhD in medical sociology from Vanderbilt University in Nashville. He has held faculty appointments at several universities and medical schools and is currently a research affiliate with the Social Science Research Center at Mississippi State University and affiliate faculty with the University of Tennessee Health Science Center. Dr. Thomas is active in publishing and has authored or coauthored over 20 books on health-related topics, including works on health services planning, healthcare market research, and the demography of health and health care. He has authored dozens of articles on health care and given numerous presentations, seminars, and workshops on related subjects. He previously served as the editor of Marketing Health Services, the healthcare journal of the American Marketing Association.