Healthcare Systems and Services

The Healthcare program focuses on public health, health systems management, and patient care delivery. It blends theory and practice to prepare students for leadership roles in healthcare services.

27 books
Introduction to Healthcare Quality Management, Fourth Edition

Introduction to Healthcare Quality Management, Fourth Edition

Patrice L. Spath, Kenneth A. DeVane

Gateway to Healthcare Management, 2022-10-08

Healthcare quality can be a daunting subject, with its maze of regulatory requirements and plethora of approaches. Introduction to Healthcare Quality Management makes the topic approachable. It explai...

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Human Resources in Healthcare

Human Resources in Healthcare

Bruce Fried, Myron D. Fottler, James A. Johnson

, 2005

Human Resources in Healthcare: Managing for Success, Second Edition presents the techniques and practices behind effectively managing people?the healthcare industry?s most important asset. It provides...

456 pages View Details
Organizing for Quality

Organizing for Quality

Paul Bate, Peter Mendel, Glenn Robert

CRC Press, 2007-11-30

This challenging and highly practical book draws on the findings from an international study designed to help practitioners and researchers understand the factors and processes that enable healthcare ...

288 pages View Details
High Reliability Organizations

High Reliability Organizations

, 2020-12

Handbook of Healthcare Operations Management

Handbook of Healthcare Operations Management

Brian T. Denton

Springer Science & Business Media, 2013-02-28

From the Preface: Collectively, the chapters in this book address application domains including inpatient and outpatient services, public health networks, supply chain management, and resource constra...

542 pages View Details
Financial Management of Health Care Organizations

Financial Management of Health Care Organizations

William N. Zelman, Michael J. McCue, Noah D. Glick

John Wiley & Sons, 2009-09-15

Thoroughly revised, this third edition of Financial Management of Health Care Organizations of­fers an introduction to the most-used tools and techniques of health care financial management. Comprehe...

643 pages View Details
Essentials of Strategic Planning in Healthcare, Third Edition

Essentials of Strategic Planning in Healthcare, Third Edition

Jeffrey P. Harrison

, 2020-10-30

"This book fully explains strategic plan development and implementation in a healthcare organization-from conducting an environmental assessment to communicating the plan to stakeholders-as well as th...

320 pages View Details
Environmental Health - Theory and Practice

Environmental Health - Theory and Practice

Ramesha Chandrappa, Diganta Bhusan Das

Springer Nature, 2020-12-28

This two-volume work discusses environmental health, the branch of public health concerned with all aspects of the natural and built environment affecting human health, and addresses key issues at the...

334 pages View Details
Biofilms in Infection Prevention and Control

Biofilms in Infection Prevention and Control

Steven L. Percival, David Williams, Tracey Cooper, Jacqueline Randle

Academic Press, 2014-01-30

Biofilms in Infection and Disease Control: A Healthcare Handbook outlines the scientific evidence and rationale for the prevention of infection, the role biofilms play in infection control, and the is...

394 pages View Details
Ayliffe's Control of Healthcare-Associated Infection

Ayliffe's Control of Healthcare-Associated Infection

Adam Fraise, Christina Bradley

CRC Press, 2009-05-29

The fifth edition of this classic text is the definitive, clinically orientated guide to a critical area within healthcare practice, full of sound, practical advice for all those involved in the contr...

503 pages View Details
Digital Health

Digital Health

Homero Rivas, Thomas Boillat

Springer Nature, 2023-02-13

This extensively updated second edition describes the increasing use of digital health technologies. It reflects and describes the scenario that healthcare consumers and providers have realized the po...

216 pages View Details
Understanding Patient Safety, Third Edition

Understanding Patient Safety, Third Edition

Robert Wachter, Kiran Gupta

McGraw Hill Professional, 2017-12-01

Now revised and updated—the landmark patient safety primer written by the world’s leading authorities Medical errors are the unfortunate byproduct of an increasingly complex healthcare system. Now...

529 pages View Details