Concepts, methods, strategy
ISBN : 9782897990824
Year of publication : 2020
Nombre de pages : 456
Langue : Anglais#French</trp-gettext#!trpEnglish#
Planning is an important management function. Applied to the healthcare field, planning must take into account the ultimate objective of healthcare systems, which is to improve the health of populations. This is particularly true of public systems, which must be accountable for the return on investment in healthcare, as in other areas where the state has a responsibility to deliver results. The perspective adopted in this book is one of population health, in which the achievement of health objectives is the final outcome of the planning process. Health therefore remains the backdrop to this book, whether it's a question of planning prevention or health promotion actions, or the provision of diagnostic and treatment services. This analytical framework provides the thinking and methods that will enable healthcare professionals and managers to assume the role they need to play to fully meet their responsibility for improving the health of the population. This book is an excellent reference manual for managers responsible for planning in the health field, and a basic tool for students of health services administration and evaluation, as well as public health.
After graduating from the Université de Montréal's Faculty of Nursing in 1971, Carole Daveluy taught in the Department of Nursing Techniques at Cégep Édouard-Montpetit in Longueuil. She obtained her M.Sc. from the Université de Montréal's Department of Social and Preventive Medicine in 1978. She was then put in charge of the school health program at the Cité de la Santé's Community Health Department in Laval, where she became health program coordinator in 1980. From 1985 to 1989, she worked as a health planning advisor in the same department. Since 1989, she has been coordinator at Santé Québec, a health and social survey center.
After obtaining his medical degree from Université Laval in 1965, Raynald Pineault opted for health administration, a field in which he earned a master's degree from Université de Montréal in 1970. In 1974, he was awarded a Ph.D. in Medical Care Organization from the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor). Since 1974, he has been a professor in the Faculty of Medicine at the Université de Montréal, as well as being clinically attached to the Department of Community Health at the Cité de la Santé in Laval. In 1981, he was appointed Director of the Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, and in 1993 became Vice-Dean of Public Health at the Université de Montréal Faculty of Medicine.
