Recent Advances in Health Care and Medical Services
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Health Care Sciences & Services".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2023) | Viewed by 213
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Dear Colleagues,
Healthcare became a core policy for the WHO with the Declaration of Alma-Ata on primary healthcare in 1978, and the subsequent development of the Global Strategy for Health for All by the year 2000. It is also considered the strategy to achieve health for all and to ensure the universality, quality, equity, efficiency, and sustainability of essential services. This Special Issue is focused on papers related to the strategic directions, including harmonizing health development with overall development, which will require a proactive leadership role of the Ministries of Health in order to steer the provision and financing of healthcare and the national health system as a whole. Other important topics are strategic planning, career development, strengthening the managerial and technical skills of health personnel, and developing incentives for health personnel. Enhancing the efficiency of national health services should be a major focus, whether at a central level or operational level. The papers can also examine the real issues confronting health services management, providing independent views and cutting-edge evidence-based research to guide policy-making and management decision-making.
The expected authors are academics and practitioners from public, private and military health facilities that deal with developing, implementing, and analyzing health management issues, reforms, and innovations.
The Special Issue is seeking:
- Original primary research using qualitative or quantitative methods.
- Theoretical or methodological development papers that present developments in theories, concepts, or models of health services management research, or developments in research methods applied to health services.
- Evidence syntheses that present the results of secondary research, e.g., reviews of existing research evidence conducted rigorously using recognized and accepted methods for review including (but not limited to) Cochrane systematic reviews, and realist or metanarrative reviews.
- Theory-to-practice papers that present the results of the implementation of theoretical advances in managerial practices. These can report case studies, incidents, histories, interviews, or other forms of research that help to investigate health management practices of organizations and systems, and their impacts and lessons.
- Perspectives papers that aim to highlight, frame, and discuss emerging health management issues on the agenda of organizations and systems.
- D. breakthroughs that show rigorous and innovative methodological approaches and new research questions of interest for the academic and practitioners’ community.
Prof. Dr. Guglielmo Manenti
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- healthcare
- medical services
- patients
- sustainability
- management
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