Public Health Publication : World Health Organization ; (Php) Public Health Publication, Volume 50 - (Chapter 1 - Chapter 3): Hospital Legislation and Hospital Systems

By R. F. Bridgman, Dr.

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Title:	Public Health Publication : World Health Organization ; (Php) Public Health Publication, Volume 50 - (Chapter 1 - Chapter 3): Hospital Legislation and Hospital Systems
Author:	R. F. Bridgman, Dr.
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Language:	English
Subject:	Health., Public health, Wellness programs
Collections:	Medical Library Collection, World Health Collection
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Publisher:	World Health Organization


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Table of Contents
CONTENTS Page Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 CHAPTER 1 . AN APPROACH TO THE PROBLEM . . . . . . . . . 15 CHAPTER 2 . THE DIVERSITY OF HOSPITAL LAWS AhT ADMINISTRATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Hospital legislation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Legal provisions as an integral part of the legislation . . . . . . . . 33 Hospital regulations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Provisions. other than regulations. governing hospitals . . . . . . . 34 Administration and management of hospitals . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Employment conditions of hospital staff . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Hospital hance systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Coordination of the hospital system with other public health institutions . 47 Hospital construction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 The planning of the hospital system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 CHAPTER 3 . THE MAJOR SYSTEMS OF HOSPITAL ORGANIZATION . . 54 Countries where Roman law has been applied . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Developing countries formerly under French administration . . . . . 59 The older members of the British Commonwealth . . . . . . . . . 60 Developing countries formerly under British administration . . . . . . 63 The Federal Republic of Germany. the Yetherlands. and the Swiss Confederation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Countries where Islamic law has been applied . . . . . . . . . . . 65 The United States of America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Scandinavian countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Socialist countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 Unclassified countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 Territories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 CHAPTER 4 . HOSPIT.1L SYSTEIIS I 3 SELECTED COUNTP.IES . . . . 74 Localized hospital sterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 Peru . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 Israel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 United States of America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 PartialIy centralized hospital systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 Philippines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95