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G O Eni

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PubMed1992

Biomedical and health services research in Canada: a review.

Using published evidence of research grants, the historical development of funding sources for biomedical and health services research in Canada is discussed. The imbalance between health services research, which includes health services administration and biomedical research, is examined. It is argued that the current funding arrangement should be restructured to accommodate field-based, application research through an independent agency. Needs-focused and integrated research activities that are policy relevant and which involve practitioners are required if current limitations in the system are to be addressed. Thus, health administration as a discipline will receive the necessary technological assistance needed to improve management practices.

Canada↗
PubMed1989

Issues for consideration in the establishment of a program management structure.

In a product management structure, the management of separate products is moved down in the organization to achieve greater participatory management as well as greater effectiveness in the identification of factors most relevant to the survival of the product. For the business industry, managing products as separate entities enables more effective competition in the marketplace. This approach has been used in U.S. hospitals in managing programs and services. Described here are the initial attempts at program management undertaken at the Health Sciences Centre in Winnipeg, a highly specialized, provincial 1,100-bed teaching and referral hospital. Some issues important in developing and implementing the program management approach are discussed.

Decision Making, Organizational↗
PubMed1989

The concept of critical success factors (CSFs) as a planning tool for healthcare managers.

A well-used concept in business, the Critical Success Factor (CSF) is just beginning to be applied to healthcare organizations. This article discusses the utility of the CSF approach to the management of health services, explains how senior healthcare executives can use it to consider, define and direct the planning needs of healthcare organizations, and demonstrates how it can be applied in hospital management. Managers can use the CSF planning approach to achieve the organization's goals in accordance with its mission, be competitive, and evaluate and restructure existing programs to satisfy needs to meet specific objectives.

Canada↗
PubMed1989

Going north on a north-bound trail: a model for achieving health management goals and objectives.

A basic managerial problem in decision making is to synthesise and priorise information relating to the achievement of organisational goals and objectives. This paper discusses the role of critical success factors in health services planning as a means for sorting out and specifying relevant information necessary for achieving organisational goals and managerial objectives. The proposed approach enhances existing planning procedures for health care organisations. Within a conceptual framework of the health care system, managerial insights are provided for the realisation of organisational goals via measurable managerial objectives using critical success factors as pointers to success. More importantly, this paper introduces a planning model which incorporates the CSF concept for developing new health care programmes and for evaluating or restructuring existing programmes.

Health Facility Planning↗
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Community pharmacists' participation in health education and disease prevention activities.

Community pharmacists are faced with many opportunities to participate in health education and disease prevention activities. This study sought to determine the extent to which community pharmacists in British Columbia participate in such activities. A mail questionnaire was distributed to a systematic, stratified sample of 625 community pharmacists in B.C. (response rate = 83.6%). A five-point Likert-type scale was used to examine the frequencies of pharmacist involvement in 33 different health education/disease prevention activities. Results of the study indicate that pharmacists most frequently participate in health education/disease-preventing activities directly related to the dispensing or selling of medications. Activities exhibiting the lowest participation among pharmacists included speaking to community groups on health-related matters, participating in disease screening programs, querying clients on their level of occupational stress, counselling clients on AIDS prevention, and querying clients on their smoking status.

British Columbia↗