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E Borgenhammar

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PubMed1990

Quality of management in the health care system.

Quality of management is a necessary, yet not sufficient, prerequisite in quality of care. There are two main approaches to improved quality. One is the individualist approach, where the role of the manager is emphasized. The other is the contextual approach. Focus is on managerial prerequisites such as organizational structure, culture, participation in decision making, and use of management time. Individualist as well as contextualist approaches are presented. Each decade during the 20th century has had its own "pet theory" regarding what problems the manager should allocate time on. A study of 41 Nordic public health researchers illustrates that cost-benefit analysis is the best known of ten theories. Management ethics, with the manager as ideologist, is seen as particularly demanding on managerial creativity.

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PubMed1990

Management education at the Nordic School of Public Health.

This article introduces the Program of Health Services Management at the Nordic School of Public Health in Gothenburg, Sweden, after its reorganization in 1987. The school is a joint effort of the governments of Denmark, Finland, Norway, Iceland, and Sweden. As background, some research on the effects of management training for physicians and on the significance of leadership is presented. This article focuses on the relationship between administration, management, and leadership. The program aims at a holistic approach. The appendix presents the main purposes and content of the program.

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Planning for health: the significance of life style.

The health of a population is related to more than the volume and quality of health services available. Ischaemic heart diseases and cancers are the main causes of death for adults in most developed countries. Partly, these diseases are related to diet and other life style variables. The purpose of this article is to discuss some prevention possibilities related to health practices. Empirical data were collected by means of a questionnaire on health status and 'life style' among long-standing members of a Swedish popular movement for physical culture. The principal question was what could be learned for health planning and management. Genetic factors have lately come more in focus as an explanation of untimely death and disease while, for example, life style has been de-emphasized. There is a risk, thereby, that a purchaser-provider approach, where short-sighted returns are in focus, will give too low a priority to health promotion.

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