Hospital Management and Public Health Role of National Hospitals after Transformation into Independent Administrative Agencies.

ABSTRACT: The development of medical care, technological advances, and the ageing of society have led to rising medical costs. As a result, there is a demand to improve the efficiency of healthcare delivery systems, including public healthcare institutions, in order to ensure the sustainability of healthcare functions. In 2004, as part of national civil service reform in Japan, national hospitals were merged in order to form the National Hospital Organization (NHO). The NHO used new public management methods and was required to be self-financing and to maintain critical functions under a five-year management plan. The objective of this study was to examine whether the NHO was able to maintain its key function in the national infrastructure in terms of management. An analysis of the business conditio

SUBMITTER: Nakagawa Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9602203 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature