Posted: February 20th, 2015

Strategic Leadership

Paper, Order, or Assignment Requirements

Assignment
Drawing on all the issues covered in Weeks 1–7 of the module, consider a health service or a health organisation.
1. What are the main components of the wider system within which this service or organisation operates?
2. Identify the key organisational and service relationships within that system, the nature and extent of their interdependency.
3. The influence they have on the achievement of your chosen service or organisation.
The following instructions must be strictly adhered to:
The three questions must be treated independently.
• Use Harvard format for all In-text citations and references.
• All sources must be scholarly and fully referenced (indicate the URL of sources where available).
• I request for plagiarism report.
• Use only real life examples where applicable.
• The instructions for this assignment must be strictly adhered to.

Assignment

Drawing on all the issues covered in Weeks 1–7 of the module, consider a health service or a health organisation.

1. What are the main components of the wider system within which this service or organisation operates?
2. Identify the key organisational and service relationships within that system, the nature and extent of their interdependency.
3. The influence they have on the achievement of your chosen service or organisation.

The following instructions must be strictly adhered to:

• Use Harvard format for all In-text citations and references.
• All sources must be scholarly and fully referenced (indicate the URL of sources where available).
• I request for plagiarism report.
• Use only real life examples where applicable.
• The instructions for this assignment must be strictly adhered to.

Required Resources from Week 1-7

• Merson, M.H., Black, R.E., & Mills, A.J. (eds.) (2006) ‘Chapter 1: The design of health systems’. In: International public health: diseases, programs, systems and policies. University of Liverpool/Laureate Education, Inc., custom ed. Sudbury, MA: Jones & Bartlett Learning, pp. 1–14.
• Hunter, D.J. (ed.). (2007) ‘Chapter 1: The policy context and growing importance of health’. In: Managing for health. Oxford: Routledge, pp. 8–27. Available from:
  http://www.tandfebooks.com.ezproxy.liv.ac.uk/isbn/9780203014349 (Accessed: 21 March 2014).
• Merson, M.H., Black, R.E., & Mills, A.J. (eds.) (2006) ‘Chapter 2: Management and planning for public health’. In: International public health: diseases, programs, systems and policies. University of Liverpool/Laureate Education, Inc., custom ed. Sudbury, MA: Jones & Bartlett Learning, pp. 41–60.
• Hunter, D.J. (ed.) (2007)  ‘Chapter 3: Exploring managing for health’. In: Managing for health. Oxford: Routledge, pp. 54–79. Available from:
  http://www.tandfebooks.com.ezproxy.liv.ac.uk/isbn/9780203014349 (Accessed: 21 March 2014).
• Hunter, D.J. (ed.) (2007) ‘Chapter 6: Research-informed public health’. In: Managing for health. Oxford: Routledge, pp. 129–147. Available from:
  http://www.tandfebooks.com.ezproxy.liv.ac.uk/isbn/9780203014349 (Accessed: 21 March 2014).
• World Health Organization (2000) ‘Chapter 2: How well do health systems perform?’ In: WHO report 2000: health systems: improving performance. Geneva: WHO, pp. 23–46 (pp. 37–61 in eBook). Available from:
  http://site.ebrary.com.ezproxy.liv.ac.uk/lib/liverpool/docDetail.action?docID=5006803 (Accessed: 18 May 2010).
• Navarro, V. (2000) ‘Assessment of the World Health Report 2000’, Lancet, 356 (9241), pp. 1598–1601 [Online]. Available from:
  http://dx.doi.org.ezproxy.liv.ac.uk/10.1016/S0140-6736(00)03139-1 (Accessed: 18 May 2010).
• Murray, C. & Frenk, J. (2001) ‘World Health Report 2000: a step towards evidence-based health policy’, Lancet, 357 (9269), pp. 1698–1700 [Online]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org.ezproxy.liv.ac.uk/10.1016/S0140-6736(00)04826-1 (Accessed: 18 May 2010).

• Navarro, V. (2001) ‘World Health Report 2000: responses to Murray and Frenk’, Lancet, 357 (9269), pp. 1701–1702 [Online]. Available from:
  http://dx.doi.org.ezproxy.liv.ac.uk/10.1016/S0140-6736(00)04827-3 (Accessed: 1 May 2010)

• World Health Organization (2000) ‘Chapter 5: Who pays for health systems?’. In: WHO report 2000 health systems: improving performance, pp. 95–117 (pp. 107–127 in e-book). Available from: http://site.ebrary.com.ezproxy.liv.ac.uk/lib/liverpool/docDetail.action?docID=5006803 (Accessed: 18 May 2010)

• Robinson, S. (2011) ‘Chapter 3: Financing healthcare: funding systems and healthcare costs’. In: Walshe, K. & Smith, J. ( second edition), Healthcare management. Maidenhead: Open University, pp. 37–65. Available from: http://library.liv.ac.uk.ezproxy.liv.ac.uk/record=b2627661 (Accessed: 2 January 2014).

• Tofts, A. &  Walshe, K. (2011) ‘Chapter 22: Managing resources’. In: Walshe, K. & Smith, J. (second edition), Healthcare management. Maidenhead: Open University Press, pp. 452–470. Available from: http://library.liv.ac.uk.ezproxy.liv.ac.uk/record=b2627661 (Accessed: 2 January 2014).

• Murray, C. & Frenk, J. (2000) ‘A framework for assessing the performance of health systems’, Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 78 (6), pp. 717–731. Available from: http://www.who.int/bulletin/archives/78(6)717.pdf (Accessed: 18 May 2010).
• Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
  http://www.oecd.org/pages/0,3417,en_36734052_36734103_1_1_1_1_1,00.html
• Feuer, R. & Chaharbaghi, K. (1995) ‘Strategy development: past, present and future’, Management Decision, 33 (6), pp. 11–21 [Online]. Available from:
  http://dx.doi.org.ezproxy.liv.ac.uk/10.1108/00251749510087614 (Accessed: 18 May 2010).
• Cacace, M. & Nolte, E. (2011) ‘Chapter 8: Healthcare services: strategy, direction and delivery’. In: Walshe, K. & Smith, J. (second edition), Healthcare management. Maidenhead: Open University Press, pp. 145–169. Available from:  http://library.liv.ac.uk.ezproxy.liv.ac.uk/record=b2627661 (Accessed: 2 January 2014).
• Hunter, D.J. (ed.) (2007) ‘Chapter 7: Developing management leadership for health’. In: Managing for health. Oxford: Routledge, pp. 148–173. Available from:
  http://www.tandfebooks.com.ezproxy.liv.ac.uk/isbn/9780203014349 (Accessed: 21 March 2014).