02464nam a22003137a 4500 PH-MaWHO 20260209111035.0 260209b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 924154283 WPRO Library eng SYI AZ 2000 Shepard, Donald S. 650636 Analysis of hospital costs : a manual for managers Geneva : World Health Organization, 2000. 92 pages Consideration of cost takes an increasing amount of the attention of managers in health facilities and at district, regional and national levels of the health service. This concern applies in both the public and private (including both for-profit and not-for-profit) sectors. In 1994, in collaboration with UNICEF and the Aga Khan Foundation, WHO published Cost analysis in primary health care¹ to strengthen the management of primary health care programmes. Hospitals absorb the bulk of health spending in most countries, however, and the evidence suggests that there is considerable scope for improving the management of these resources. That is why this manual was prepared. A draft was completed in early 1997 and its usefulness to managers was tested through workshops in Bangladesh and Zimbabwe that year, and in Egypt in 1999. The present publication incorporates feedback from the workshop participants. This manual is intended to help managers at various levels of the health system understand how cost analysis can assist decision-making, as well as to help them define and institutionalize relevant costing systems. The manual gives methodological guidance and it is expected that each country can and should develop its own costing strategy and specific methodologies on the basis of managerial needs and the availability of relevant information. It is hoped that the manual will facilitate national processes for developing hospital costing strategies and methods. HRF Economics, Hospital 142377 Financial management, Hospital 161140 Costs and cost analysis 119360 Administrative personnel 55197 Manuals 646680 Hodgkin, Dominic 675924 Anthony, Yvonne E. 675925 World Health Organization 641634 https://iris.who.int/handle/10665/42197 MONO 2017 retain Mark 01-05-2018 14:44:17 nml 4776 4776 0 0 nml 0 0 WHO WPRO WPRO 2ndFlrLib 2000-02-24 0 SYI.AZ 2000 WPR001567 2024-01-24 00:00:00 2021-05-23 MONO