An Epidemiological Perspective for Health Care Management

Syed Amin Tabish
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Syed Amin Tabish: Sher-i-Kashmir Inst. of Medical Sciences

Chapter Chapter 3 in Health Care Management: Principles and Practice, 2024, pp 65-75 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Health care services can be made to be responsive to the prevailing population conditions, such as fertility, diseases, and deaths from certain conditions, and increases in the minority and elderly subgroups. The epidemiological perspective in healthcare management focuses on understanding the distribution and determinants of health and diseases within populations. It involves using data and statistical methods to identify health trends, assess risk factors, and evaluate the effectiveness of health interventions. This perspective is essential for making informed decisions to improve public health, allocate resources effectively, and implement preventive measures. Management decisions are increasingly dependent upon having a working knowledge of genetic epidemiology. General and useful knowledge, including the potential contribution of the Human Genome Project is essential. Although directed at populations, epidemiology also includes the spectrum from molecules to people. Managerial epidemiology uses the principles and tools of epidemiology to help managers make better-informed decisions in each of these functional domains; that is, managerial epidemiology is the application of the principles and tools of epidemiology to the decision-making process. It is the application of epidemiologic methods to management problems. Health services research is important both for medical management and for health policy. Epidemiology plays a crucial role in healthcare management: Problem identification and prioritization, cause-and-effect relationships, intervention development and implementation, surveillance and monitoring, quality evaluation—epidemiology assesses healthcare outcomes, contributing to quality improvement and policy formulation. Epidemiology provides a scientific foundation for healthcare management, emphasizing population health and evidence-based decision-making.

Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1007/978-981-97-3879-3_3

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