Resources of Health Care System and Hospital Administration : Human, Finance and Material
Contents: Preface. I. Human: 1. Human resource for health and medical services delivery system. 2. Nursing services and health. 3. Health manpower planning. 4. Personnel training, executive development and induction. 5. Performance appraisal. 6. Career development and career planning. 7. Professional standards. II. Finance: 8. Health financing in India through government allocations. 9. Financing of health services: social insurance. 10. Health financing in India through private insurance. 11. Employees\' state insurance corporation. 12. Performance and zero-base budgeting including human resource accounting and audit. III. Material: 13. Materials management: techniques of purchasing and classification. 14. Drugs management. 15. Managing equipment. 16. Records management in a hospital. Bibliography. Index.
"Health administration faces a great challenge and has an important role to play in improving the health status of the population. It must be a positive force providing good health services to all without discrimination.
A sound health manpower policy is the main requirement for the development of any functionally effective health care system. Most of the countries in the developing world have never formulated or implemented such a policy.
We must find the method to achieve greater productivity, efficiency and cost-effectiveness in health manpower utilization.
The critical decisions in health manpower planning concern the kinds of personnel required, the type and adequacy of education and training and financial resources necessary to produce them, their relationship to each other in the health team, and where and how they would practice.
A sound state of finance is of paramount importance to the political health of a nation. The soundness of public finance depends both upon the right policy and good organisation, but a great deal upon the latter. There is a need to step up the health allocations to the minimum of 10 per cent of the total budget. Secondly, there is mal-distribution of health resources. Most of the health budgets (about 80 per cent) are being spent only on a few people (20 per cent). This deprives the people living in rural areas and urban slums." (jacket)
