Improving Health Services
Background, Method and Applications
By: Walter Holland
Hardcover | 31 October 2013
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Drawing on his extensive personal experience in the development of HSR, Walter Holland provides examples from the US and the UK to illustrate important lessons for the future improvement of health services. Taking a distinctive approach to describing the purposes and activities of HSR, the book focuses on the significance of close collaboration with those responsible for the delivery and decisions of health policy. The major message is the importance of heeding the findings of HSR so as to develop evidence-based health policy, and to understand and influence the actions of health professionals, managers and politicians. Holland strongly advocates greater use of HSR and emphasizes its ability to provide vital evidence on how to improve health services.
This highly informative and detailed book will strongly appeal to health service researchers, public health practitioners, clinicians, health-service managers, administrators and health policymakers.
Industry Reviews
'This is a thought-provoking, original and incredibly informative study of how health services research can improve both service practice and policy rather than yet another catalogue of disjointed case studies and initiatives. An absolutely essential read for experts and novices alike.' -- Elias Mossialos, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK
'No-one is better placed to tell the story of health services research over the past 50 years than Walter Holland, a major contributor and advocate. He reveals the cast of characters involved in the scientific struggles for acceptance and the political intrigue required. Unusually for someone who knows where the bodies are buried, he is prepared to share his insights and to exhort today's researchers never to forget that "HSR and its results are a highly emotive political subject".' -- Nick Black, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UK
'Reflecting on more than 50 years of personal experience at the interface of epidemiology and health services research, Professor Walter Holland has written a book full of candid and - often - critical observations. He always succeeds in seeing the wood through the trees, and this book convincingly demonstrates the value of research in improving health service practice and policy.' -- Johan Mackenbach, Erasmus MC, The Netherlands
ISBN: 9781783470181
ISBN-10: 1783470186
Published: 31st October 2013
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Number of Pages: 288
Audience: College, Tertiary and University
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Country of Publication: GB
Dimensions (cm): 23.4 x 15.6 x 1.91
Weight (kg): 0.57
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