SYSTEMS ANALYSIS IN THE HEALTH FIELD

Author: Ivan Yanachkov at al.

The management process has cyclic character and is, relatively, cooped up. It begins with aiming a target and ends with accomplishment of the aims by attaining some results. On the basis of information from the results /which are the attained or unattained targets and aims, per se/ and consequently, new aims are targeted - this is the organization and administration of a recurring cycle. The subject of management /viz, health management body/ is responsible for systems of governing members and organs, making a series of operations and each displacing another in a row. This follow-up of operations, controlled by the subject, is associated with a high level of precision while each step is break-up in modules. This, so called "theory of queues" has relativity which means that each previous step is a premise for a sequel. The cycle end is limited by a parameter information, i.e. we say the "net is small".

The elements of systems analysis include four special features:

1. Presence of integrated loops which denote a sum greater than the structure components.

Example: sick individual

2. Content validity of the respective votive.

Example: health care system

3. Space dimension of the operations research.

Example: reform of health care system

4. Coordination with the environment with regard to confounding and interaction effects.

Example: medical decision making

In social economics aspect the systems are divided into autonomous and non-autonomous, etc. The fundamentals of the systems approach appear as an independent scientific concept during the 3^rd decade of the twentieth century. Builder of this theory is Ludwig von Bertalanffy /1901-1972/.

CONTENTS

Management process

I. Development of a management decision

II. Plan

III. Organization and administration

IV. Regulation and control

Systems character of health care

Health management body

I. Structures of effective management

II. Styles of commanding management

III. Methods of formal and informal communication

Socio-economics of systems analysis