Management Problems in Health Care

The treatment and the solution of health economic problems by using management concepts is a permanent challenge; the question of control ling the costs or the efficiency of the supply of medical services is concerned. The articles in this book hope to make a concrete contri bution to this subject by reporting on the latest research the authors have made in this area. The medical services involved can either be part of the general provi sion of medical care and treatment to the population or can be provided by hospitals which are complex systems of public health care. The divi sion of the contents of this book reflects this distinction. The four articles in Part A are concerned with problems of general health care. Part B is dedicated to particular problems relating to hospital planning and contains five articles. In Part A the first article by Heidenberger deals with 'Optimal Resource Allocation in Horizontally and Vertically Disaggregated Health Programs' Using corresponding model formulations and linear programming the pro blem is solved of how a fixed budget should be distributed among the measures of a social health program so that the control of an illness is as effective as possible. In the case in question the illness to be controlled is high blood pressure. The possibilities for using this type of approach in health programs to combat other illnesses are ob vious.

Autorentext
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Günter Fandel ist Hochschullehrer an der FernUniversität in Hagen und Editor-in-Chief der Zeitschrift für Betriebswirtschaft.

Klappentext

The treatment and solution of health economic problems by the use of management concepts is a permanent challenge. It is a question of controlling the costs or the efficiency of the supply of medical services. The articles in this book provide a significant contribution to this subject by reporting on the latest research the authors have done in this area. The medical services involved can either be part of the general provision of medical care and treatment for the population or can be provided by hospitals which are complex systems of public health care. The book is divided into two sections, the contents of which reflect this distinction. The four articles in Part A are concerned with problems of general health care. Part B, containing five articles, is dedicated to particular problems relating to hospital planning.

Inhalt
A: Problems of General Provision with Medical Services.- 1. Optimal Resource Allocation in Horizontally and Vertically Disaggregated Health Programs.- 2. Micro-Economic Aspects of Magnetic Resonance Tomography.- 3. Regional Location and Capacity Planning for ESW Lithotripters and CT Scanners.- 4. Planning and Organization of Economic Units in the Field of Out-Patient Medical Care.- B: Problems in Hospital Planning.- 5. Outcome Based Hospital Financing and Decision Oriented Hospital Management.- 6. Special Problems of Resource Planning in Hospitals.- 7. Approaches to the Planning of the Optimal Supply of Beds in Hospitals.- 8. On Capacity Planning of Diagnosis Systems in Hospitals.- 9. Simulation Models for the Analysis of Hospitals with Regard to their Emergency Infrastructure.- List of Contributors.