Management of health facilities: Hospitals
The role of hospitals
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The Role of the District Hospital in the DHS
Kwik-Skwiz #9, 1998 Health Systems Trust
10 features of a good district hospital, district-wide support function of the hospital, relationship between the hospital and district management
(4 pages, pdf 483kb) -
Configuring the Hospital in the 21st Century
Nigel Edwards, Sylvia Wyatt, Martin McKee, 2004, European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies
Examines the questions that policy-makers need to be asking about the hospital's role in the health care system, e.g.: Which health care services should the hospital provide? Is the hospital a useful unit for planning?
(9 pages, pdf 437kb) -
The role of the hospital in a changing environment
Martin McKee & Judith Healy, Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2000, 78 (6)
Summarizes the evidence underlying three reform strategies: (i) behavioural interventions such as quality assurance programmes; (ii) changing organizational culture; and (iii) the use of financial incentives.
(8 pages, pdf 211kb) -
Report On Reducing The Impact Of Disasters On Health Facilities
WHO Regional Office for the Americas, 2004
Dealing with the loss of health assets in the wake of disasters; incorporating disaster mitigation measures for the sustainability of capital health investments: new hospitals designed, built and maintained to continue to function immediately after a disaster
(7 pages, pdf 126kb) -
The Role of the Hospital in the District: Delivering or Supporting Primary Health Care?
W. Van Lerberghe & Y. Lafort, 1991 WHO
Working with health centres, district health system, management models
(36 pages, pdf 1.1MB) -
District Health Facilities: Guidelines for Development and Operations
WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific, 1998
Planning, facility design, equipment, drugs, different levels of facilities/services evaluation
(349 pages, pdf 478kb)
(Go to the bottom of page 4 and click on Table of Contents. Then click on underlined headings) -
Management of District Hospitals - Exploring Success
ID Couper, JFM Hugo, 2005, Remote and Rural Health, 5:433.
Teams working together for a purpose; open communication and sharing information is the way things happen; management structures and processes to support teamwork and service delivery; being answerable to the community
(19 pages, pdf 441kb)