Management of health facilities: Overall management
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District Health Facilities: Guidelines for Development and Operations
WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific, 1998
guidelines for the planning and design of district hospitals, including extensive information on the selection and maintenance of medical and laboratory equipment.
(pdf 478kb - Go to bottom of page 4 and click on the link to table of contents - then click on the underlined chapter headings.
The total document is 349 pages, but you can open one chapter at a time) -
Health Facility Committees: The Governance Issue
pdf, 60kb
Community Health Department, 2004, Aga Khan Health Service, Kenya
Health facility committees and governance; strengthening health systems: genuine community representation, management capacity, managing revenues, information and quality of services; lessons learnt
(8 pages, pdf 60kb) -
Preparing Nurses for Facility Management
pdf, 442kb
Community Health Department, 2004, Aga Khan Health Service, Kenya
Changing role of the dispensary nurse; role of community committee; management functions; training; lessons learned
(8 pages, pdf 432kb) -
District Health Facilities: Guidelines for Development and Operations
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 the underlined headings) -
On Being in Charge : A Guide to Management in Primary Health Care
Rosemary McMahon, Elizabeth Barton, and Maurice Piot, 1992
Concepts, definitions, principles and main functions of management, health team, leading the health team, organizing, controlling and assessing work
(472 pages, pdf 52kb)
(On page 3 of the above link, you can click on the blue headings to see the chapter details) -
Clinical Engineering Facility Management Guide: Facility Management
doc, 84kb
Capt. John Clark, The Air Force Medical Logistics Operations Centre
People, place, purpose; common functions of facility management
(5 pages, Word doc 55kb)