Hospital and Health Management – Case studies

This book presents a variety of case studies to understand various issues in management of hospital and health. These case studies will be helpful in generating discussions from philosophical to logical, from ideal to practical, from just and fair to implementable and practical. Discussion may facilitate decision making around a wide range of topics patient counselling, handling of medical emergencies, medical negligence, integration of allopathy with others ‘AYUSH’ etc. Managing treatment of complex health conditions of patients of different ages and their physical, behavioural, social, financial, emotional, and psychological aspects have been the subject matter of case studies. The tangled trap of law and its complexities, chronic diseases, lifestyle diseases, family planning, health insurance, social responsibility, rural and urban healthcare, has been given due importance to widen the horizon of managers.