ELT

Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University's objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide.

Price: $96.95

Format:
Paperback 288 pp.
numerous figures, boxes and tables, 169 mm x 245 mm

ISBN-10:
0195556143

ISBN-13:
9780195556148

Publication date:
February 2007

Imprint: OUP Australia and New Zealand

Share on Facebook

Add to Favourites Tell a Friend


Health Promotion and Health Services

Management for Change

Anne Johnson and Kevin Paton

Health Promotion and Health Services: Management for Change provides an innovative new framework for reorientating health services to become more health promoting.

Pressure on health services to become more responsive to the health needs of the broader population has led to greater demand for effective change management within the health sector. The authors integrate health promotion and change management theory into a framework designed to reorient health servcices to become more health promoting, and then link this knowledge to practical tools to effect change.

Readership : Undergraduate and postgraduate students of health promotion, public health and primary health care courses; Health care professionals.

Section One: Setting the Context for Reorienting Health Services to become more Health PromotingAnne Johnson:
1. The Argument for Reorienting Health Services
2. A Settings Approach to Health Services
3. Reorientation of Health Services to become more Health Promoting
Section Two: Frameworks for Organisational ChangeKevin Paton:
4. The Challenge of Changing Health Services: Transformational and Transactional Change
5. A Model for Effective Change Management: The Paton-Johnson Model of Change Management for Health Promoting Health Services
6. Organisation Development as an Approach to Change
7. Resistence and Commitment to Organisation Change
8. Leading and Managing Change
Section Three: Thinking Tools for the Change AgentKevin Paton and Anne Johnson:
Harvey Skinner: Tool 1 - Your Organisational Prototype
Anne Johnson: Tool 2 - Health Promoting Health Services - Organisational and Activities/Practice Assessment Tool
Tool 3 - Micro-Political Mapping
Tool 4 - Decision Analysis
Tool 5 - Project Planning
Tool 6 - Change Project Scoping
Tool 7 - Stakeholder Conflict Analysis
Tool 8 - Commitment Charting

There are no Instructor/Student Resources available at this time.

Anne Johnson is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Public Health Services at Flinders University. She teaches in the Master of Primary Health Care and the Doctorate of Public Health, and has worked as a Health Promotion Consultant at the Women's and Children's Hospital (Adelaide), and Flinders Medical Centre. Anne was awarded the '2005 Leadership Award for Health Promotion' by the Australian Health Promotion Association, SA branch. Kevin Paton is Principal Lecturer in Organisation Development at Sunderland Business School. He is Programme Leader for the Postgraduate Diploma in Organisation Development and Change in Health and Social Care, and has worked with the World Health Organisation's European Network of Health Promoting Hospitals to create an education programme on Organisation Development and Change.

There are no related titles available at this time.

Special Features

  • Provides a broad range of 'change agent' tools and techniques for implementing organisational change
  • Adopts a 'values based' approach
  • Draws on a range of Australian and European examples to illustrate how health promoting health services can be created and sustained