Strategic Management and Economics in Health Care, 1st ed. 2019

Chapter 1. Basic dimensions of strategic management.- Chapter 2. Environment and health care units.- Chapter 3. Process of strategic management.- Chapter 4. Strategic Planning in the health care sector.- Chapter 5. Strategic Changes in the Health Care Sector.- Chapter 6. Total Quality Management and Health Care Sector.- Chapter 7. For-profit versus not-for profit hospitals and public hospitals.- Chapter 8. The Economics of Hospitals.- Chapter 9. Hospitals as suppliers of healthcare services.- Chapter 10. Financing hospitals.- Chapter 11. Hospital efficiency and performance.

Dr Michael Chletsos is a Professor of Economic Analysis in the Department of Economics, University of Piraeus, Piraeus-Athens, Greece and Director of the Master/s Program “Economics of Education”. He taught at the University of Crete, University of Thessaly and University of Ioannina. He teaches more than 25 years at the Greek Open University at the Master's Program in Health Economics and now he teaches at the Master's Program of Management Aging and Chronic Diseases. He has been Head of the Department at the University of Ioannina from 2004 - 2008 and since then he has been the Vice - Head of the Department until 2017. He was also a member of the Deanship of the Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences of the University of Ioannina. He was the Director of the Master's Program of the Department of Economics of the University of Ioannina from 2003 - 2009 and from 2011 to 2019. He was also the Director of the Laboratory of Applied Economic and Social Policy at the University of Ioannina.He served as Director of the Directorate of Research at the Employment Observatory Research and Informatics SA, Senior Researcher at the National Labour Institute and Researcher at the Centre of Planning and Economic Research.  His research interests are focused on labour economics, public economics, economics of social protection, health economics and economics of Poverty and income inequalities. He currently works on the cost of disability, on the integration of vulnerable persons into the labour market and on health inequalities. He participated in many international and national projects in the above fields and he collaborated with the World Health Organization and he is national expert at Cedefop in the context of the project “Skills forecasting”.  He participated in many international conferences and he published books and papers in academic journals in the field of labour economics, public economics, economics of social protection, health economics and economics of Po

Includes approaches to strategic planning in the health care sector Offers a definition of Total Quality Management (TQM) and how to implement it in health care unites Focuses on the distinction between for-profit and not-for-profit hospitals and public hospitals