Download or read book Privatization of Facility Management in Public Hospitals written by Hong Poh Fan and published by Partridge Publishing Singapore. This book was released on 2016-06-15 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Malaysian economy has gone from the doldrums to being a juggernaut, which has posed many challenges to the health care industryespecially hospitals. Public hospitals in Malaysia have faced an uphill task in upgrading health care services to levels compatible with international standards. In this book, Hong Poh Fan, a senior adviser on facility management for a hospital developer, explores the transition that public hospitals have undertaken with the support of the private sector. The author zeroes in on critical issues, including: successes and challenges of privatization implementation; hospital experiences in a Southeast Asian context and how those experiences can be applied elsewhere; and ways that private development of hospitals has changed over time as well as the rationale of privatization. When people think of what the hospital industry needs, they often focus on having enough doctors and nurses, but when facilities management is lacking, services can be compromised no matter how employees are working at a facility. Join the author as he shares lessons learned over a fifteen-year period of hospital privatization in this detailed examination of how to improve health care.
Download or read book Privatization of Facility Management in Public Hospitals written by Fan Hong Poh and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-18 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is about the Hospital Support Service (HSS) which was privatised to three (3) concessionaire companies for the period 1996 to 2011 in Malaysia. The book discusses the essence of the agreement which includes the rationale and objectives of the project, the contract arrangement and the scope of the concession, . Essentially, at the beginning Malaysia's modern facility management industry did not exist in both public and private sectors and it was the Ministry of Health of Malaysia (MOH) which initiate implementation of proper facility maintenance and management into the country. The book examines the pros and cons of the implementation of HSS in the health care facilities like hospitals and institutions and issues discussed in the conclusion. It is the opinion of the author, being part of the monitoring consultant, that lessons and experience of the project can be learnt and replicated in other health care organisation in other countries being developed or developing.
Download or read book Measurement of Facilities Management Performance in Ghana s Public Hospitals written by Daniel Amos and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-11-23 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the concept of healthcare facilities management performance measurement (HCFMPM) using Ghana as a case study. It set forth in-depth theoretical and empirical underpinnings of performance measurement concepts for hospital facilities services, with the view to demonstrate critical performance dimensions to improve FM contributions and added value to healthcare delivery. The research approach adopted is mixed method encompassing qualitative interviews in case study setting and a questionnaire survey of sampled hospitals in Ghana. The book presents a number of useful tables, graphs as well as a pedagogic illustration of statistical analysis which are useful in understanding the concepts under reference. It develops a structural equation model for performance measurement of FM services. The book is of relevance to healthcare managers, facilities management practitioners and academics towards measuring and improving FM performance in hospitals. Although the data used in the analysis is based on the case study country Ghana, the result is by extension useful to several developing countries faced with the challenge to improve FM services delivery in public hospitals as well as other facilities management sectors.
Download or read book Privatization and Public Hospitals written by Charles Brecher and published by Twentieth Century Foundation. This book was released on 1995 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this provocative volume, the authors review the recent trend in U.S. municipal hospital systems to privatize anything that can be sold or handed off to profit-seeking businesses. Specifically, they examine how the HHC has played a crucial role in New York City as a government-funded entity for the past quarter of a century.
Download or read book Public Hospitals Under Private Management written by William Shonick and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Alternatives to Privatization written by David A. McDonald and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-04-23 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a vast literature for and against privatizing public services. Those who are against privatization are often confronted with the objection that they present no alternative. This book takes up that challenge by establishing theoretical models for what does (and does not) constitute an alternative to privatization, and what might make them ‘successful’, backed up by a comprehensive set of empirical data on public services initiatives in over 40 countries. This is the first such global survey of its kind, providing a rigorous and robust platform for evaluating different alternatives and allowing for comparisons across regions and sectors. The book helps to conceptualize and evaluate what has become an important and widespread movement for better public services in the global South. The contributors explore historical, existing and proposed non-commercialized alternatives for primary health, water/sanitation and electricity. The objectives of the research have been to develop conceptual and methodological frameworks for identifying and analyzing alternatives to privatization, and testing these models against actually existing alternatives on the ground in Asia, Africa and Latin America. Information of this type is urgently required for practitioners and analysts, both of whom are seeking reliable knowledge on what kind of public models work, how transferable they are from one place to another and what their main strengths and weaknesses are.
Download or read book Corrections and the Private Sector written by Joan Mullen and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Neoliberal Governance and International Medical Travel in Malaysia written by Meghann Ormond and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: International medical travel (IMT), people crossing national borders in the pursuit of healthcare, has become a growing phenomenon. With many of the countries currently being promoted as IMT destinations located in the ‘developing’ world, IMT poses a significant challenge to popular assumptions about who provides and receives care since it inverses and diversifies presumed directionalities of care. This book analyses the development of international medical travel in Malaysia, by looking at the benefits and challenges of providing health care to non-Malaysians. It challenges embedded assumptions about the sources, directions and political value of care. The author situates the Malaysian case study material at the fruitful cross-section of a range of literatures on transnational mobility, hospitality, therapeutic landscapes and medical diplomacy to examine their roles in the construction of national identity. The book thus contributes to wider debates that have emerged around the changing character of global health governance, and is of use to students and scholars of Southeast Asian Studies as well as Politics and Health and Social Care.
Download or read book Black Enterprise written by and published by . This book was released on 1986-02 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BLACK ENTERPRISE is the ultimate source for wealth creation for African American professionals, entrepreneurs and corporate executives. Every month, BLACK ENTERPRISE delivers timely, useful information on careers, small business and personal finance.
Download or read book Human Rights Public Values and Leadership in Healthcare Policy written by Eneanya, Augustine Nduka and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2018-11-23 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The legitimacy of any national health system depends on how it serves the interest of the poorest and most vulnerable people. As such, a commitment to equity should be at the heart of human rights discussions regarding universal health coverage. Human Rights, Public Values, and Leadership in Healthcare Policy is an essential reference source on the importance of access to timely, quality, and affordable healthcare, and how overt or implicit discrimination in the delivery of health services violates fundamental human rights and can have serious health consequences. This publication covers current health-policy debates and reforms that focus on extending universal health coverage, decreasing the growth of costs through improved efficiency, and expanding prevention and wellness of programs. While highlighting topics such as authority hierarchy, HIV/AIDS experiences, and veterans’ mental health, this publication is ideally designed for health practitioners/professionals, scholars, researchers, institutions, students, consultants, and policymakers.
Download or read book Trends in EU Health Care Systems written by Winfried de Gooijer and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-03-20 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The nations of the EU have long led the world in universal health coverage. Recent economic developments have created problems ranging from inequities of care to growing numbers of uninsured — a progression analyzed by Win de Gooijer in Trends in EU Health Care Systems. His ideas may be startling, and the book is bound to be controversial. This is critical reading for health care managers and policymakers, politicians and insurors - anyone looking to Europe to understand this far-reaching evolution.
Download or read book HAZARDOUS WASTE MANAGEMENT written by Domenico Grasso and published by EOLSS Publications. This book was released on 2009-08-11 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hazardous Waste Management theme is a component of Encyclopedia of Environmental and Ecological Sciences, Engineering and Technology Resources in the global Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS), which is an integrated compendium of twenty one Encyclopedias. Hazardous waste definitions differ from one country to another. A generic definition might center on wastes or combinations of wastes that pose a substantial present or potential hazard to humans or the environment, in part because they are not readily degradable, persistent in the environment and are deleterious to human health or natural resources. Most hazardous wastes are produced in the manufacturing of products for domestic consumption or further industrial application. The Theme on Hazardous Waste Management with contributions from distinguished experts in the field, discusses ecological risk, hazardous waste issues and management. This volume is aimed at the following five major target audiences: University and College students Educators, Professional practitioners, Research personnel and Policy analysts, managers, and decision makers and NGOs.
Download or read book The Critique of Commodification written by Christoph Hermann and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-07-05 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years activists around the globe have challenged the commodification of water, education, health care, and other essential goods, while academics have warned from unintended effects when everything can be bought and sold. But what is commodification? And what is the problem with commodification? In The Critique of Commodification, Christoph Hermann argues that commodification entails production for profit rather than social needs, and that production for profit has a number of harmful effects, including the exclusion of those who cannot pay, the marginalization of those whose collective purchasing power is not large enough, and the focus on highly profitable forms of production over more socially beneficial and ecologically sustainable alternatives. Drawing upon and extending the work of Marx, Polyani, and Luxemburg, Hermann goes beyond the standard moral critiques of markets and adopts a materialist approach to emphasize the dispossession of public resources and to highlight how goods and services are altered when sold on markets for profit. Tracing the intellectual history of the term commodification, this book not only criticizes commodification, but also proposes a new model for production that focuses on needs rather than profits.
Download or read book Health Care in Malaysia written by Heng Leng Chee and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-03-06 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The health care system in Malaysia has undergone a fundamental transformation over the last two decades. This book examines this transformation and explores the pressing issues it faces today. It includes coverage of: the evolution of the system since independence, from the colonial legacy of national provision bequeathed from the British to the impact of the global ideological shift against statism in the 1980s considers the responses of the Malaysian state and government policy issues such as equity of provision, women's access to health care, HIV-AIDS health care, care for the elderly. The book offers a detailed examination of the changing face of health care in Malaysia, and its impact on Malaysian citizens, users and society.
Download or read book Management Control in Hospitals written by Roman A. Lewandowski and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2023-08-24 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For years, problems related to health-care efficiency have been at the top of the priorities of many hospitals systems and governments. The growing cost of health care, and particularly hospitals, is a significant factor in the increasing pressure for improvement of hospitals’ efficiency while maintaining a high quality of services. Hospitals are recognized as organizations in which waste, unnecessary administrative burdens, failures of care coordination, failures in execution of care processes, and even fraud and abuse are frequently identified as causes. Adoption of management control as a response to hospital problems is consistent with the conviction that control is a critical management function that has the greatest impact on organizational performance. Research proves that the lack of adequate control, adapted to modern organizational solutions, causes many harmful consequences, such as faulty services, dissatisfied patients and employees, inability to effectively compete on market, low flexibility and innovativeness, and, consequently, poor performance of the organization. This book comprehensively presents issues related to management control and develops a breakthrough theory about management control in hospitals. It is the result of many years of research and outlines the concept of control and related theories, which are discussed in detail, taking into account the unique characteristics of medical services, the health-care market, and hospitals as public organizations. Research has shown that the main elements of management control in hospitals are information systems, diagnostic control, interactive control, innovativeness, manager’s trust in physicians, and perceived uncertainty. And that proper relationships between these elements positively influence the hospital’s performance. This book describes how the success of the entire control process is based on the hospital’s top management and its interaction with clinical managers, department heads, and directors of other medical departments as well as clinicians. After reading this book, the implementation of the solutions suggested will help hospitals improve their performance, including the quality and effectiveness of the provided medical services and patient care.
Download or read book Innovations in Health Service Delivery written by Alexander S. Preker and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2003 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the largest expenditure category of the health systems in both industrialised and developing countries, hospital care provision has been the focus of reforms over recent decades. This publication reviews recent trends in hospital policy reforms and options around the world; and includes case studies which offer insights into lessons learned. Issues considered include: differences in income levels, cultural settings and market environments; organisational changes such as increased management autonomy and privatisation; the need for parallel reforms and effective evaluation mechanisms.
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