No single discipline can provide a full account of how and why health care is the way it is. This book provides you with a series of conceptual frameworks which help to unravel the apparent complexity that confronts the inexperienced observer. It demonstrates the need for contributions from medicine[...]

Offers an understanding of the concepts of management, managerial leadership and governance within health care systems. This book provides an introduction to, and conceptual framework for, the analysis of health systems management and goes on to examine fundamental management tasks, including managi[...]