Mary ArnoldThe Administration of Health Systems
Comparative Perspectives
PrefaceI. THE HEALTH SYSTEM1. Health in Our Changing World
Mary F. Arnold2. A Social Systems View of Health Action
Mary F. ArnoldII. THE ACTORS IN THE HEALTH SYSTEM3. Effects of Professionalism on Health Systems
Mary F. Arnold4. The Hospital Administrator's Emerging Professional Role
Rodney F. White5. Occupational Group Striving in Public Health
Ray H. Elling6. Organizational Control and the Public Health Nurse
Edna M. Grexton7. The Professional Association and Collective Bargaining: The Case of the American Nurses Association
Joseph A. AluttoIII. THE POLITICAL CONTEXT OF HEALTH ADMINISTRATION8. Emerging Patterns of Federalism: The Case of Public Health
David G. Smith9. Health Organization: The Public Administrator's View
Morris Schaefer10. Community Politics and Health Planning
Mary F. Arnold and Isabel M. Welsh11. Effects of Community P01ver on Hospital Organization
L. Vaughn Blankenship and Ray H. EllingIV. PLANNING AS A MEANS OF RATIONALIZING THE HEALTH SYSTEM12. The Ecological Perspective
Edward S. Rogers13. Philosophical Dilemmas in Health Planning
Mary F. Arnold14. Why We Need to Plan
Richard M. Bailey15. Tools for Planning
Mary F. Arnold16. Evaluation: A Parallel Process to Planning
Mary F. Arnold17. Agency Problems with Community Health Planning
Mary F. Arnold and Douglas L. HinkV. ORGANIZATIONAL PERSPECTIVES18. The Life Cycle Dynamics of Health Service Organizations
David B. Starkweather and Arnold I. Kisch19. Organizational Decision
Making
L. Vaughn Blankenship20. Economies of Scale in Outpatient Medical Practice
Richard M. Bailey21. Estimating Costs of Laboratory Error to the Patient
Edward L. Cavenaugh22. Health Officer Decision
Making: A Case Study
Mary F. Arnold23. Health Agency Decision
Making: An Operations Research Perspective
David H. StimsonIndex
