Recent policy developments in public health care systems lead to a greater diversity in health care. Decentralization, either geographically or at an institutional level, is the key force, because it encourages innovation and local initiatives in health care provision. The devolution of responsibilities allows for a sort of 'deconstruction' of the status quo by changing both organizational form...

1 Coordinator, Vaccines Assessment and Monitoring, Department of Vaccines & Biologicals, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland. Correspondence should be sent to this author (e-mail: [email protected]). 2 Immunization Advisor, World Health Organization, Kampala, Uganda. 3 Global Alert and Response, Department of Communicable Disease Surveillance and Response, World Health Organization...

introduction: management development assessment helps managers to systematically assess the current management capabilities of their organization and take critical steps to strengthen the management skills and sustainability of their organizations. this study aimed to identify and compare the health system management development assessment models in selected international organizations and coun...

Security incidents can have negative impacts on healthcare organizations, and the security of medical records has become a primary concern of the public. However, previous studies showed that organizations had not effectively learned lessons from security incidents. Incident learning as an essential activity in the "follow-up" phase of security incident response lifecycle has long been addresse...

BACKGROUND Shifts in the environment can compel health care organizations to change their strategies. However strategic change frequently fails because individuals do not adopt the behaviors necessary to successfully implement the new strategy. PURPOSE This study explores how three variables-agreement with new strategy, leaders' actions, and groups' general orientation toward change-can influ...

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The evolving domain of international health law encompasses increasingly diverse and complex concerns. Commentators agree that health development in the twenty-first century is likely to expand the use of conventional international law to create a framework for coordination and cooperation among states in an increasingly interdependent world. This article examines the forces and factors behind ...