This paper reports the results of a study of 40 (20 paired general and functional level managers) in 20 health care organizations. The managers were personally interviewed and were asked to supply additional self-coded data from calendar entries, telephone logs, and in/out baskets. The results of this study indicated that health care managers, like their business counterparts, spend most of the...

factors affecting on job motivation from the managers point of view in teaching hospitals affiliated to urmia university of medical sciences in 2009 hamouzadeh p*1, sadeghifar j2, moradkhani b3 received: 25 april, 2010 accepted: 27 july, 2010 abstract background & aims: the fact that managers are planners of health care system plays an important role in the development of health care and treatm...

background in early 1990s, tanzania like other african countries, adopted health sector reform (hsr). the most strongly held centralisation system that informed the nature of services provision including health was, thus, disintegrated giving rise to decentralisation system. it was within the realm of hsr process, user fees were introduced in the health sector. along with user fees, various typ...

BACKGROUND In light of an increasing global focus on health system strengthening and integration of vertical programmes within health systems, methods and tools are required to examine whether general health service managers exercise administrative authority over vertical programmes. OBJECTIVE To measure the extent to which general health service (horizontal) managers, exercise authority over...

BACKGROUND Proposals to establish an occupational health service for primary care should be informed by knowledge of the health needs of general practice employees. AIM To determine the prevalence and occupational correlates of stress, anxiety, and depression among practice managers in two contrasting health authorities in England. METHOD A postal questionnaire, soliciting information about...

BACKGROUND Ineffective district health management potentially impacts on health system performance and service delivery. However, little is known about district health managing practices and time allocation in resource-constrained health systems. Therefore, a time use study was conducted in order to understand current time use practices of district health managers in Ghana. METHODS All 21 dis...