Research Catalog

Title

Managerial epidemiology for health care organizations / Peter J. Fos and David J. Fine with contributions by Brian W. Amy, Miguel A. Zúniga.

Author

Fos, Peter J.

Publication

San Francisco, CA : Jossey-Bass, [2005], ©2005.

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Additional Authors

• Fine, David J.
• Fos, Peter J.

Description

xxiv, 321 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Summary

"Managerial Epidemiology for Health Care Organizations provides readers with a thorough and comprehensive understanding of the application of epidemiological principles to the delivery of health care services and management of health care organizations. As health administration becomes evidence - and population - based, it becomes critical to understand the impact of disease on populations of people in a service area. This book also addresses the need of health organizations' to demonstrate emergency preparedness and respond to bioterrorism threats. A follow-up to the standard text in the field, this book introduces core epidemiology principles and clearly illustrates their essential applications in planning, evaluating, and managing health care for populations. This book demonstrates how health care executives can incorporate the practice of epidemiology into their various management functions and has current examples, concepts, and case studies that reinforce the theories, methods, and applications of managerial epidemiology." "Written for faculty, students, researchers, and professionals in health care administration and public health practice, this practical resource also includes study questions."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• Epidemiology
• Health services administration
• Epidemiologic Methods
• Health Services Administration
• Health Care Surveys
• Health Planning > methods
• Quality of Health Care

Note

• Rev. ed. of: Designing health care for populations / Peter J. Fos, David J. Fine. 1st ed. c2000.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. Epidemiology in health care administration -- 2. Description of health -- 3. Measurement of health -- 4. Designs for studying the health and health needs of populations -- 5. Standardizing population health information -- 6. Medical management in population health care -- 7. Planning health care for populations -- 8. Population health outcomes and quality of care -- 9. Marketing health care for populations -- 10. Economic analysis of health care for populations -- 11. Expanding emergency health care services -- 12. Quality of hospital care -- 13. Pediatric inpatient services -- 14. Community relations in a hospital service area.

ISBN

0787978914 (alk. paper)

LCCN

• 2005003186
• 9780787978914

OCLC

• ocm57579299
• SCSB-5190403

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries