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REVIEW OF LITERATURE
CHAPTER - 2
REVIEW OF LITERATURE
INTRODUCTION:
For the purpose of the proposed study, a thorough study of all possible
academic and non-academic work in the field has been done. The main aim
for reviewing of the earlier research work is not only to studying the historical
background of the present work but also to understand some more variables
which can be included in the study. It also helped the researcher to design
the present study in such a way so that recurrence of shortcomings and
pitfalls that may be observed in any earlier study might be rectified.
In view of above stated facts the researcher has categorized the present
review of literature in two categories:
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1. · Researches related to management of private sector health
organizations.
In this part, the researcher has tried to present the studies based on
management of private sector organizations in the field of health and family
welfare services. Some studies from such category are presented below;
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provides and to monitor contracts. Various examples are given to support
that government collaboration with private sector has been shown to work
or has the potential to work well. This paper suggest that government can
play better role in managing health care services through collaboration with
private health sector.
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Brijesh C.Purohit (2001/ 5) in their paper entitled "Private initiatives
and policy option; recent health system experience in India." Studied the
structural framework of Indian health system and find out why central
government is not able to provide aid to the states for public health and
disease control programme and how this impacting on the regulation of the
health services in the state. He noted some trends that are appearing in the
Indian health system. These trends includes increasing investment by non-
resident Indians (NRIs) in the hospital industry, leading to a spurt in
corporatization in the states of their origin domicile and an increasing
participation by multinational companies in diagnostics aiming to capture
the potential of Indian health insurance market. These private initiatives are
reflected in measuring comprising strategy to attract private sector
participation and management inputs into p1jmary health care centers (PHCs),
privatization or semi privatization of public health facilities such as non-
clinical services in public hospitals. Some new ways to finance health facilities
through non-budgetary measures and tax incentives by the state government
to encourage private sector investment in the health sector. This paper
examines the aspect of private initiatives and their implication for the Indian
health sector market.
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in developing a mechanism for suitable criteria for allocating resources. It
evaluates the efficiency of their operations and recovery of costs. Here an
attempt has been made to observe the relationship of cost and hospital service
indicator by using statistical tools.
a historical and global perspective. It tracks the growth of the private sector
in India and examines the role of professionals, certain classes and
international capital, which have shaped the contents of privatization. The
author demonstrates, through an in depth study of background of medical
entrepreneurs, that there have been a movement of capital away from
agriculture and business in to the medical sector. Dr. Baru shows how the
growth of the private sector has had a negative impact on the public sector.
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arrangements, appear to hold the greatest promise for archiving quality and
efficiency goals.
Sheela Prasad (1997/9) in her paper entitled "A study of public and
corporate hospital" reveals the functiOning of both private and public health
care system in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh. She examines the performance
of each sector through perception of users. The basic objectives of this paper
are to test the hypothesis that growth of corporate sector in urban health
care widens in equalities in the quality of health care. The paper preliminary
investigates the dynamic of urban health care. It also observed that healthcare
is becoming capital intensive and this is truer of corporate healthcare. The
paper states that the public hospital is now identified as largely for the poor
while the corporate hospitals are for the rich.
In this part of the study, the researcher has presented the brief summary
related to the work done earlier in the field of public sector health
organization;
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like India. Application of genetic knowledge for genetic/ marriage counseling,
community health, prevention and control of genetic diseases, and promotion
of health strategies of the amelioration of suffering of the people. This paper
can be suggested with the result that there is lack of training in undergraduate
as well as postgraduate level in medical education for medical genetics and
public health administration.
Swapan Kanti Chaudhri (2006/ 14) in his paper "health sector in West
Bengal" highlighted on the status and government policies in the health
sector in West Bengal. According to this article, the health sector financing
in west Bengal reflects in adequate budget sends on health and family welfare
services on the one hand and number of structural inefficiencies on the other.
The overall findings of this paper suggested that the government would require
to committing a significant level of additional resources on a sustainable
basis and look for sizable funding support from donor partners to build
financial capability and ensure sustainability to increase health spends.
Gurjeet Kaur and Neena Gupta (2006/ 15) in their paper entitled
liE-Health: A new perspective on global health" highlighted the rising
profile of e-health on the international policy agenda and the emerging Indian
programme for information technology and related development in the
national health services. Health is a process of providing health care via
electronic means, in particular over the internet. The term E-Health has been
used to describe the variety of activities related to the electronic exchange of
health related data, in the form of voice or video.
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Alvaro Alonso and Ruairi Brugha (2006P6) in their article "Rehabilating
the health system after conflict in East Timor: a shift from NGO to government
leadership" discussed that the efforts to rehabilitates health system after
period of prolonged conflict have often been characterized by poor
coordination of external actors, multilateral agencies, donor and non
governmental organizations (NGOs). This paper describes the process of
analyzing the roles of different stakeholders in the establishment government
led districts health system in East Timor, between 1999 and 2002, and after
decades of chronic conflict and Indonesian occupation. During the emergency
phase, from September 1999; when violence erupted to march 2000, NGOs
played a major role in the provision of relief to the population, coordinated
by United Nations agencies. An interim health authority, led by local Timorese,
was established in March and the major donor began to shift funding from
NGOs to the newly established Ministry of health. The ultimate result of this
paper suggests that health service utilization continued to grow during and
after implementation.
Thomas R.Oliver (2005/ 17) in his review article entitled "The politics
of public health policy" focused on the role of politics in the health affair of
any countries. He wrote that politics in the health affair could be used in
both ways for its betterment and for worse also. It considers how bounded
rationality, fragmented political institutions resistance from concentrated
interest and fiscal constraints usually lead political representatives to adapt
incremental policy changes rather than comprehensive reforms even when
they faced some serious public health problem. It reviews the challenges
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confronting officials and agencies that are responsible for implementing and
administrating health policies. According to this article 'public health
professionals who understand the political dimensions of health policy can
do better in diagnosing policies and programme in the health sector. The aim
of this article is to articulate a role for political analysis of public health
servIces
John Frank, Vera Etches, Doug Manual and others (2005/ 18) in their
review article entitled "Measuring population health" reviewed the historical
development of population health indicator and their uses and importance
in measuring the population health of a country. They said that regular
national health interview surveys and applications of administrative data
contributed information on morbidity, health services use and some social
determinant of health. More recently, traditional health data databases and
data sets on "non health" sector determinant have been linked. In this article,
the conceptual framework for using indicators to report on all the domains
of population health has been suggested. Future ethical development of
indicators will incorporate principles of justice, transparency and
effectiveness.
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which disadvantaged social groups-such as the poor, racial/ ethnic minorities,
women or other group who have persistently experienced social disadvantage
or discrimination-systematically experience worse health or grater health
risks than more advantaged social groups, ("social advantage" refers to one's
relative position in a social hierarchy determined by wealth,power,and
prestige.) Health disparities include differences between the most advantaged
group in a given category-e.g., the wealthiest, the most powerful racial!
ethical group-and all others, not only between the best-and worse- off groups.
Pursuing health equity means pursuing the elimination of such health
disparities / inequalities.
Manoj Shanna and Gayatri Bhatia (2005/ 20) in their article entitled ·
"The voluntary community health movement in India: a strengths,
weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT) analysis" focusing on the
development of voluntary organization in the field of community health.
The purpose of this article is to historically trace the voluntary movement in
community health in India, analyses the status and predict the future trends
of voluntary efforts by using the tool of SWOT analysis.
Sonya Grier and Carol A. Bryant (2004i 21 ) in their paper entitled "Social
marketing in public health", provided some ideas related to social marketing
in public health, the use of marketing to design and implement the programme
to promote the behavioral changes that is useful for the society. In their
paper they written that many professional related to public health have an
incomplete understanding of the social marketing field, which help them to
advance current knowledge, practical definition with several case studies
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that how to apply social marketing applications in public health. The overall
study of this paper focusing on how social marketing may be used to plan
public health interventions.
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factors are Disparities in life expectancy, disease, access to health care and
protection from financial risks. The old approach to national health policies
and programmes was not finding appropriate, so there is a need to change
in the national health policies to be more diverse and accommodating to
specific state and districts. More "splitting" of India's health policy at the
state level would better addressed their health problems and would open the
ways to innovation and local accountability. Better "Lumping" of policy issues
at the central level s also needed but not as was in the past. This paper
suggested that at present the central government needs to focus on
overcoming the large inequalities in health outcomes in India and also develop
a systematic management to tackle growing challenges in the health sector.
Robert Beaglehole and Mario R Dal Poz (2003/25) in their paper entitled
"Public health work force: challenges and policy issues" reviews the challenges
facing the public health workforce in developing countries and the main
policy issues that must be addressed in order to strengthen the public health
workforce. The key question was- should government invest more in building
and supporting the public health work force and infrastructure to ensure the
more effective functioning of health system? The paper concerned about the
nature of the public health workforce; including its size, composition, skills,
training needs, current function and "performance; the appropriate role of the
work force and how the workforce can be strengthened to support new
approaches to priority health problem.
Jill Schofield (2001)(26) in his research article entitled "The old ways
are the best?" The durability and usefulness of bureaucracy in public sector
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management" conducted the research in the British National health services
to find out why the old ways are the best. The finding of this research
suggested that the bureaucracy is both useful and durable because it means
that government can rely upon the obedience of beaurocrats. It is a function
of bureaucratic vocation and protects the professional reputation and a form
of instrumental motivation.
This paper suggest creative ways of using leTs to improve the health
conditions of local people with highlighting the substantial cost involved in
providing wider access and the problem of resource allocation in poor
countries where basic infrastructure for health and education is still lacking.
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Marilyn Wise and Louise Signal (2oool 28) in their paper entitled
"Health promotion development in Australia and New Zealand" describes
and analyses the development of health promotion in above two countries.
They said that there is a notable improvement in the health of these two
country's population over the last decade but still there are some areas i.e.
(workforce development and research and evaluation) are still weak. This
paper suggest that by the help of collaboration with the public in the health
sector and other can give strength to develop health promotion activity in
both nations.
aim of NPSM and their role in policymaking process and makes implementers
to be more formal of choices about what aught to be done to improve health
outcomes.
David Peters (199Sl30) in his review article entitled "The sector wide
approach in health; what is it? Where is it leading? Describes early experience
with sector wide approach (SWAp), which is an emerging trend of
development practice in low-income countries. In this, the researcher also
described the term "SWAp" means and why it is now being perused. The
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term "SWAp" is characterized as a sustained government led partnership
with donor agencies and other groups. The approach has changed the dynamic
between government and donor agencies, requiring systematic changes in
policymaking and management in both government and donor agencies. With
the SWAp, ongoing joint assessment and negotiations around sectoral plans
and review of performance replaces the old way of preparing and supervising
project. The paper suggested the past, present and future approach of SWAp
with some of the key challenges of SWAp approach in future and their
importance in management of health services.
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of each sector through perception of users. The basic objectives of this paper
are to test the hypothesis that growth of corporate sector in urban health
care widens in equalities in the quality of health care. The paper preliminary
investigates the dynamic of urban health care. It also observed that healthcare
is becoming capital intensive and this is truer of corporate healthcare. The
paper states that the public hospital is now identified as largely for the poor
while the corporate hospitals are for the rich.
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was to examine the dynamic of policy at the time of major change and their
impact on the current policy directions. In this paper, there is a demonstration
of the range and nature of issues concerned to decision makers in the ministry
of health, ministry of state / local government and national development
planning commission. The major issues were restructuring the health
department, resource allocation under decentralization and health planning
responsibilities at different levels. The major emphasis of this paper was on
the process of organizational changes in the health sector resulting from
decentralization policies.
Ashok Kumar (1991) (35) in his research article entitled "Delivery and
management of basic services to the urban poor: the role of the urban basic
services in Delhi" stimulates a discussion about the provision and
management of basic services to the urban poor in the · context of the
metropolitan cities of India. The research suggested that government should
enhance the level of basic services and their management through
implementing various policies.
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2.3: CONCLUSION
It is clear from the above discussion that the researcher has included
thirty six studies related to health management in hospitals and other
organizations belonging to both sectors i.e. (1) Private sector and (2) Public
sector. However few studies are common to health management of both the
sectors. In various studies the parameters like financial health, policy
challenges, private health provisions, reproductive health services, behavior
of various organizations in health market, hospital management training,
medical genetic in public health, re-habilation of health system, e-health,
public health policy, community health movement, health disparity and health
equity, primary health sector in India, public health work force, information
and technology management of health, new trends in public sector health
management, health promotion and development, etc. are included for the
purpose. However the researcher noted that there is lack of studies on various
management related aspects like social costing, effect of various health
schemes on individual, measurement of efficiency of health man power,
motivational aspects related to health work force, etc. these all gaps can be
treated as sources for further researches in the health services management
area.
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