Health planning – a global perspective

• Autor(a) principal: Crisp, Nigel
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://anaisihmt.com/index.php/ihmt/article/view/4

The term health planning can cover a wide range of different activities from long term strategic planning for a whole system to the short term development of a service and from human resource and financial planning to planning interventions to meet population needs. Moreover, as two examples described here show, it can be undertaken in very different ways. All methodologies have weaknesses and, in reality, most changes and improvements in health come about through political action, the leadership of clinical and other entrepreneurs, learning by doing and the careful application of improvement science. Planning is, however, important and this paper concludes by considering how planning processes might engage entrepreneurial leaders, work with partners from other sectors and embrace the improvements generated by individuals and teams learning and innovating in real time.