Mary ArnoldThe Administration of Health Systems
Comparative Perspectives
Preface
I. THE HEALTH SYSTEM
1. Health in Our Changing World -Mary F. Arnold
2. A Social Systems View of Health Action -Mary F. Arnold
II. THE ACTORS IN THE HEALTH SYSTEM
3. Effects of Professionalism on Health Systems -Mary F. Arnold
4. The Hospital Administrator's Emerging Professional Role -Rodney F. White
5. Occupational Group Striving in Public Health -Ray H. Elling
6. Organizational Control and the Public Health Nurse -Edna M. Grexton
7. The Professional Association and Collective Bargaining: The Case of the
American Nurses Association -Joseph A. Alutto
III. THE POLITICAL CONTEXT OF HEALTH ADMINISTRATION
8. Emerging Patterns of Federalism: The Case of Public Health -David G.
Smith
9. Health Organization: The Public Administrator's View -Morris Schaefer
10. Community Politics and Health Planning -Mary F. Arnold and Isabel M.
Welsh
11. Effects of Community P01ver on Hospital Organization-L. Vaughn
Blankenship and Ray H. Elling
IV. PLANNING AS A MEANS OF RATIONALIZING THE HEALTH SYSTEM
12. The Ecological Perspective -Edward S. Rogers
13. Philosophical Dilemmas in Health Planning -Mary F. Arnold
14. Why We Need to Plan -Richard M. Bailey
15. Tools for Planning -Mary F. Arnold
16. Evaluation: A Parallel Process to Planning -Mary F. Arnold
17. Agency Problems with Community Health Planning -Mary F. Arnold and
Douglas L. Hink
V. ORGANIZATIONAL PERSPECTIVES
18. The Life Cycle Dynamics of Health Service Organizations -David B.
Starkweather and Arnold I. Kisch
19. Organizational Decision-Making -L. Vaughn Blankenship
20. Economies of Scale in Outpatient Medical Practice -Richard M. Bailey
21. Estimating Costs of Laboratory Error to the Patient -Edward L.
Cavenaugh
22. Health Officer Decision-Making: A Case Study -Mary F. Arnold
23. Health Agency Decision-Making: An Operations Research Perspective
-David H. Stimson
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