This book on Health Care Management and Administration has been designed to inject administrative skills, capability and capacity among health personnel which can be used by health personnel in providing decent health care as it has been realized that the state of hopelessness and frustration among people is not because of the lack of professional knowledge or competence, but due to poor administration of health services. Part I from Chapters 1 to 8 deal with general management like policy-making, planning, chief executive, decision-making, organizing, supervision, communication, co-ordination and control, and headquarter-field relationship. Part II from Chapters 9-15 concentrate on the management of health manpower-significance of human resources, health manpower planning, personnel training and induction, performance appraisal, career development and career planning, professional standards, planning nursing education and ward administration. Part III from Chapters 16-19 examine materials management, drugs management, equipment management, records management. Part IV from Chapters 20-21 deal with financial management for health, performance budgeting and zero-base budgeting to inject financial discipline. Part V from Chapters 22-28 deals with innovations in health management of inter-personnel relations and transactional analysis, motivation and morale, time management, Human Resource Development, Project management, HRD and modernizing health administration. All the chapters are supplemented by charts, tables and case studies.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR S.L. Goel
Dr. S.L. Goel, Emeritus Fellow UGC at Panjab University, and an eminent social scientist has been teaching Public Administration and Political Science for over thses decades. He has been a member of University Grants Commission, Govt. of India, New Delhi, Distance Education Council and a member of All India Board of Management under All India Council for Technical Education, Ministry of HRD, New Delhi. His field of specialisation is Public Administration and Management. He has been advisor to Himachal Pradesh and Haryana Health Departments under their USAID Programme. He has written a number of books on Management and Public Administration, foreign students for Doctoral research as well as conducted a large number of training programmes for senior administrators. He has been an elected member of the Senate of P.U., Chandigarh form 1984-88. He is widely traveled in India and Abroad. He was Chairman for UGC IXth Plan Allocation for the Universities in Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh and Co-Chairman for Maharashtra. North-East Universities as well as with some Central Universities. He was Convenor UGC Tth Plan Committee for Jama Milia University, New Delhi, Chitarkoot University, Chitarkoot, Rajasthan University, Jaipur and all Colleges of Delhi University. He was a member of Xth Plan Committee at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, and Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi in 2003. As a member of UGC, he was associated with a number of Programmes like Academic Staff associated with a number of Programmes like Academic Staff Colleges, Special Assistance Programme, Autonomous Colleges, where he contributed substantially. He has also published more than thirty books on other areas. He has been a Visiting Professor and a consultanat at Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok. He visited USSR under Indo-cultural Exchange Programme. He has also served as Professor of Public Administration at Haryana Institute of Public Administration, Chandigarh and in the capacity directed a number of Executive Development Rogrammes meant for Senior Civil Servants. He visited D.R. of Korea, Japan, Hongkong to study the system of Education. He was in Hungary, Switzerland, France, Italy and U.K. to study the health care system in these countries during the summer of 1999.
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