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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.

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Author:   Paola Adinolfi ,  Elio Borgonovi
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Springer International Publishing AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2018
Weight:   0.623kg
ISBN:  

9783319535999

ISBN 10:   3319535994
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   06 November 2017
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

INTRODUCTIONIntroductory Notes Paola Adinolfi (University of Salerno) and Elio Borgonovi (Bocconi University – Milan) MANAGING IN HEALTH CARE: CUES AND REFLECTIONSManaging the Myths of Health Care Henry Mintzberg (McGill University - Montreal) REVISITING HEALTH MYTHSHenry Mintzberg’s Myths From an Evolutionary Perspective Paola Adinolfi (University of Salerno) and Elio Borgonovi (Bocconi University – Milan) Myth #1 “The healthcare system is failing”Umberto Veronesi (European Institute of Oncology) Mario Del Vecchio (University of Florence) Myth #2 “The healthcare system can be fixed by clever social engineering”Evert Gummesson (Stockholm University School of Business) Cristina Masella (Politecnico di Milano)Eugenio Anessi Pessina (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore - Rome) Myth #3 “Healthcare institutions as well as the overall system can be fixed by bringing in the great leader”Annamaria Colao and Pasquale Antonio Riccio (University of Naples – Federico II)Massimo Sargiacomo (University of Chieti-Pescara) Myth #4 “The healthcare system can be fixed by treating it more as a business”Geert Bouckaert  (KU Leuven) Maurizio Mauri (CERBA Foundation) Federico Lega (Bocconi University – Milan) Myth #5 “Health care is rightly left to the private sector, for the sake of efficiency” Mike Drummond (University of York)Rosanna Tarricone (Bocconi University – Milan) Myth #6 “Health care is rightly controlled by the public sector, for the sake of equality”Riccardo Mercurio and Stefano Consiglio (University of Naples – Federico II)Silvio Garattini (Institute of Pharmacological Research “Mario Negri” – Milan)Aurelio Tommasetti and Antonio Botti (University of Salerno) Myth #7 “The Myth of Measurement” Luca Anselmi and Simone Lazzini (University of Pisa)Matteo Mario Pietro Motterlini (San Raffaele - Milan) & Edoardo Boncinelli (University of Pisa)Sabina Nuti (Sant’Anna University - Pisa) Myth #8 “The Myth of Scale”Marcello Martinez and Luigi Moschera (Second University of Naples - SUN)Daniela Scaramuccia (Value Partners Management Consulting SpA)Rocco Palumbo and Gabriella Piscopo (University of Salerno) Reflections on Healthcare SystemsEvert Gummesson (Stockholm University School of Business) Revisiting Evert Gummesson’s “Reflections on Healthcare Systems”Gerardine Doyle (University College Dublin), Alessandra Storlazzi and Carmela Annarumma (University of Salerno)Giuseppe Favretto (University of Verona), Aurelio Tommasetti and Massimiliano Vesci (University of Salerno) CONCLUSIONHealth Myths and the Italian National Health Service (NHS) Paola Adinolfi (University of Salerno) and Elio Borgonovi (Bocconi University – Milan)

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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.

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