The Myths of Health Care
Towards New Models of Leadership and Management in the Healthcare Sector
Editors: Adinolfi, Paola, Borgonovi, Elio (Eds.)
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- Supports further developments in the field of health leadership, discussing the myths of healthcare management
- Broadens the understanding of the leadership concept in the healthcare service system, pointing out its complex, dynamic, and context-specific nature
- Highlights contributions from internationally renowned experts in the field of health leadership
- Covers many different applications of leadership in the healthcare sector
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- About this book
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This provocative appraisal unpacks commonly held beliefs about healthcare management and replaces them with practical strategies and realistic policy goals. Using Henry Mintzberg’s “Myths of Healthcare” as a springboard, it reveals management practices that undermine care delivery, explores their cultural and corporate origins, and details how they may be reversed through changes in management strategy, organization, scale, and style. Tackling conventional wisdom about decision-making, cost-effectiveness, service quality, and equity, contributors fine-tune concepts of mission and vision by promoting collaboration, engagement, and common sense. The book’s multidisciplinary panel of experts analyzes the most popular healthcare management “myths,” among them:
· The healthcare system is failing.
· The healthcare system can be fixed through social engineering. · Healthcare institutions can be fixed by bringing in the heroic leader.
· The healthcare system can be fixed by treating it more as a business.· Healthcare is rightly left to the private sector, for the sake of efficiency.
The Myths of Health Care speaks to a large, diverse audience: scholars of all levels interested in the research in health policy and management, graduate and under-graduate students attending courses in leadership and management of public sector organization, and practitioners in the field of health care.
- About the authors
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Paola Adinolfi, PhD, head of the Department of Management and Information Technology and full professor of Organizational Studies at the University of Salerno, Fisciano (SA), Italy.
Elio Borgonovi, full professor of Economics and Management of Public Sector Organizations at University Luigi Bocconi in Milan, Italy.
- Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Managing the Myths of Health Care
Pages 3-11
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The Historical Evolution of Health Concepts and Approaches: The Challenge of Complexity
Pages 13-24
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A Plural Analysis of Health Myths: Overview of the Volume
Pages 25-39
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Myth #1: The Healthcare System Is Failing
Pages 43-66
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Myth #2: The Healthcare System Can Be Fixed by Clever Social Engineering
Pages 67-86
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- The Myths of Health Care
- Book Subtitle
- Towards New Models of Leadership and Management in the Healthcare Sector
- Editors
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- Paola Adinolfi
- Elio Borgonovi
- Copyright
- 2018
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright Holder
- Springer International Publishing AG
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-319-53600-2
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-53600-2
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-53599-9
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-85193-8
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XXIV, 272
- Number of Illustrations
- 2 b/w illustrations
- Topics
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