World Health Organization : Technical Report Series, No. 395: Hospital Administration

By World Health Organization

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Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	World Health Organization : Technical Report Series, No. 395: Hospital Administration
Author:	World Health Organization
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Language:	English
Subject:	Health., Public health, Wellness programs
Collections:	Medical Library Collection, World Health Collection
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Publisher:	World Health Organization


Citation APA MLA Chicago Organization, W. H. (n.d.). World Health Organization : Technical Report Series, No. 395. Retrieved from http://gutenberg.us/

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Medical Reference Publication

Excerpt
INTRODUCTION In his opening remarks, Dr Karefa-Smart pointed out that pharmaceutical and technological advances in the past decade have resulted in many new diagnostic and therapeutic possibilities; at the same time, however, many new developing countries, with extremely limited facilities for medical care, have emerged. In the more developed countries the introduction of highly specialized services such as open heart surgery, electronic patient monitoring, peritoneal and renal dialysis, organ transplantation, and supervoltage radiotherapy has been progressing at a startling pace. Similary, laboratory equipment has been automated, electronic computers have been applied to the processing of records and to the diagnosis of illness, and systems analysis has been introduced as aa aid to planning, all at enormous cost in monej- and manpower. However, developing countries still face the problem of providing the most basic medical care for urgent cases, and the expenditure that would be necessary for the establishment of preventive services must be evaluated against this background under conditions of dire penury in money, physical facilities, and manpower.

Table of Contents
CONTENTS Page Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Main patterns of hospital administration and relationship to public administration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Definition of a hospital . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Ownership patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Legislation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Relationship to public administration . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Administrative levels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Regional hospital systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Availability of hospital services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Financing the service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Planning a hospital service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Preconditions for planning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Administrative organization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 The planning process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Allocation of responsibilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Co-ordination between hospitals owned by different agencies . . . 18 Planning a hospital . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 The planning process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 The site . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 The planning team . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Some principles of planning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Hospital management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Role of the individual hospital . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 The hospital board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 The hospital director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Miscellaneous areas of internal management . . . . . . . . . 24 Financial patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Training of hospital administrators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Recommendations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28