Project Management in Health and Community Services: Getting Good Ideas to Work - Softcover

Dwyer, Judith; Liang, Zhanming; Thiessen, Valerie; Martini, Angelita

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Synopsis

This wholly revised edition of Project Management in Health and Community Services challenges the accepted wisdom of project management methods used in other fields. It presents tools and techniques to successfully implement good ideas in the health and community services context. The book offers practical problem-solving strategies and provides a comprehensive guide to managing projects. It uses case studies and examples from the field to illustrate topics such as the project life cycle, project planning, execution and evaluation, risk management, change and effective teams. This edition will feature a new chapter focusing on the importance of building evaluation into project design and implementation and how evaluation can impact on future project design and development.

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About the Author

Judith Dwyer is Director of Research in the Department of Health Care Management at the Flinders University School of Medicine, and a former CEO of Southern Health Care Network in Melbourne, and of Flinders Medical Centre in Adelaide. Zhanming Liang is Senior Lecturer and Course Co-ordinator at the Department of Public Health, La Trobe University. Valerie Thiessen is the Director of IT Projects and Business Applications at Northern Health in Melbourne.

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9780367719104: Project Management in Health and Community Services

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ISBN 10:  036771910X ISBN 13:  9780367719104
Publisher: Routledge, 2021
Hardcover