Search for dissertations about: "hospital budget"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 8 swedish dissertations containing the words hospital budget.
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1. Competing logics in hospital mergers : the case of the Karolinska University Hospital
Abstract : Introduction: Today there is no doubt that mergers have permeated all sectors of society, including health care. Starting in the US, extensive waves of hospital mergers occurred at a record pace in the 1980’s typically justified by promising dramatic financial and operational improvements. READ MORE
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2. Lean, agile, and lean and agile hospital management : responses to introducing choice and competition in public health care
Abstract : Introduction: The marketization of public health care, with its focus on choice and competition, challenges hospital managers to take a market-oriented perspective and position. A combination of lean and agile management strategies has been suggested as a way to achieve efficiency and control costs (lean) and to respond flexibly (agile). READ MORE
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3. Health care budgeting : goals, structure, attitudes
Abstract : What purpose do budgetary tools, such as zero-base budgeting, break-down budgeting, net budget, program budget, and multi-year budget serve? Are they methods whereby planners and administrators intend to take the initiative and increase their power at the expense of the political decision-makers? Or, inversely, are they avenues to increased political influence? This dissertation analyses, characteristic by characteristic, different budgetary aspects in health care budgeting and their action alternatives. These aspects are related to three goals; priority setting, influence on action, and administrative contol. READ MORE
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4. Task-shifting of major surgery to midlevel providers of health care in Mozambique and Tanzania : a solution to the crisis in human resources to enhance maternal and neonatal survival
Abstract : Background: Task-shifting, using non-physician clinicians (NPCs) to perform major surgery in obstetric emergencies is common, though still controversial, in Africa to overcome the crisis of human resources for health. Aim: To describe the extent to which NPCs in Mozambique and Tanzania contribute to surgical skills to enhance maternal survival. READ MORE
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5. Rotavirus in pediatric gastroenteritis in Nicaraguan children
Abstract : Rotavirus, the most common diarrheic pathogen in children worldwide, causes approximately one third of diarrhea-associated hospitalizations and 800,000 deaths per year. To prevent the enormous health burden of rotavirus-associated disease is a global public health goal developed as well as implementation of safe and effective vaccines to be used in developing countries. READ MORE
