Strategic Management and Economics in Health Care

This book offers significant managerial and economic knowledge on hospitals, and will serve as a valuable tool for explaining complicated managerial and economical problems, and for facilitating decision-making processes. It bridges management and economic sciences - two complementary sciences that feed the process of making rational decisions. With particular reference to the education, the main aim of this book is to provide students of relevant schools and departments with the knowledge (managerial and economic) that will enable them to deal both efficiently and effectively with the real problems arising in a health care organization such as a hospital. In particular, by equipping students with appropriate managerial and economic knowledge, the aim is to give them a clear understanding of HOW to deal with the diverse and complex problems of hospitals while at the same time helping them to develop strategic approaches that will make hospitals more efficient and sustainable.

• Includes approaches to strategic planning in the health care sector.
• Offers a definition of Total Quality Management (TQM) and how to implement it in health care unites.
• Focuses on the distinction between for-profit and not-for-profit hospitals and public hospitals.

Autorentext
Dr Michael Chletsos is a Professor of Economic Analysis in the Department of Economics, University of Piraeus, Piraeus-Athens, Greece and Director of the Master/s Program Economics of Education. He taught at the University of Crete, University of Thessaly and University of Ioannina. He teaches more than 25 years at the Greek Open University at the Master's Program in Health Economics and now he teaches at the Master's Program of Management Aging and Chronic Diseases. He has been Head of the Department at the University of Ioannina from 2004 - 2008 and since then he has been the Vice - Head of the Department until 2017. He was also a member of the Deanship of the Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences of the University of Ioannina. He was the Director of the Master's Program of the Department of Economics of the University of Ioannina from 2003 - 2009 and from 2011 to 2019. He was also the Director of the Laboratory of Applied Economic and Social Policy at the University of Ioannina. He served as Director of the Directorate of Research at the Employment Observatory Research and Informatics SA, Senior Researcher at the National Labour Institute and Researcher at the Centre of Planning and Economic Research. His research interests are focused on labour economics, public economics, economics of social protection, health economics and economics of Poverty and income inequalities. He currently works on the cost of disability, on the integration of vulnerable persons into the labour market and on health inequalities. He participated in many international and national projects in the above fields and he collaborated with the World Health Organization and he is national expert at Cedefop in the context of the project Skills forecasting. He participated in many international conferences and he published books and papers in academic journals in the field of labour economics, public economics, economics of social protection, health economics and economics of Poverty and income inequalities.

Dr Anna Saiti, is a Professor of Management and Economics of Education, in the Department of Home Economics & Ecology, Harokopio University, Athens, Greece. She received her Bachelor Decree in Organization and Business Administration from the University of Piraeus, Athens, Greece, her M.A. in Banking and Finance from the University of North Wales, Bangor, U.K., and her PhD in Administration and Economics of Education from the University of Hull, Hull, U.K. Her research interests focus on the management and economics of education and health as well as the labor market. She has participated in several international conferences and she was involved in an applied international research project associated with School leadership and equity. She is an active member in International Scientific Organizations. Currently she is involved and the scientific head in a project on health economics. She is the author of six books (in Greek) and two books in English published by Springer publication. She has written several articles regarding management and economics of education and health care published by international scientific journals. She has been a reviewer for several international scientific journals and she has also been a reviewer for book proposals. Moreover, her papers and books have been cited by many Greek and foreign researchers. As a PhD supervisor, she granted four PhD for the thesis (2012, 2016, 2018). She is currently a supervisor of two PhD Theses.

Inhalt
Chapter 1. Basic dimensions of strategic management.- Chapter 2. Environment and health care units.- Chapter 3. Process of strategic management.- Chapter 4. Strategic Planning in the health care sector.- Chapter 5. Strategic Changes in the Health Care Sector.- Chapter 6. Total Quality Management and Health Care Sector.- Chapter 7. For-profit versus not-for profit hospitals and public hospitals.- Chapter 8. The Economics of Hospitals.- Chapter 9. Hospitals as suppliers of healthcare services.- Chapter 10. Financing hospitals.- Chapter 11. Hospital efficiency and performance.