Ch. 1. What is 'health policy' and why do we need it? -- Ch. 2. Power and policy-making -- Ch. 3. Models of the policy process -- Ch. 4. Policy implementation -- Ch. 5. Policy evaluation -- Ch. 6. Health care planning -- Ch. 7. Different approaches to health care planning -- Ch. 8. Information needs for health care planning - I -- Ch. 9. Information for health care planning - II -- Ch. 10. Health care planning: current and future issues
Summary
Examines key concepts and models of health policy and planning in such a way that they can be applied to any national context. The final result will stimulate discussion amongst students of health care management in a context free from ethnocentric limitations
Notes
Includes index
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 133-137) and index