OOMPH Library Resources: PHW 223 Strategic Management and the Organization of Health Services: Home

"The Community Tool Box is a free, online resource for those working to build healthier communities and bring about social change.": This section includes information on Developing a Strategic Plan; Developing an Organizational Structure for the Initiative; Developing Vision and Mission Statements; and more.

Article from the TCC group about strategic planning, emphasizing the importance of a sound SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats) analysis, the participation of board, staff and other stakeholders, and connecting strategic to operational plans.

This resource is most appropriate for incorporating international evidence at the national or subnational level. The workbook prompts users with key questions and evidence for consideration when transferring findings to the national (or subnational) level. The broad health policy and health systems questions can be posed across different health system arrangements and sociocultural and political systems. Throughout the workbook, evidence prompts are labelled according to the level of evidence to ensure that the best available and most appropriate global and local evidence are included in the policy decision-making process. The workbook provides a suite of tools (i.e., worksheets) to accompany each step in the process.

Continuously updated repository of syntheses of research evidence about governance, financial and delivery arrangements within health systems, and about implementation strategies that can support change in health systems. Health Systems Evidence also contains economic evaluations in these same domains, descriptions of health system reforms (with links to syntheses and economic evaluations when possible), and descriptions of health systems.

CHCF is dedicated to advancing meaningful, measurable improvements in the way the health care delivery system provides care to the people of California, particularly those with low incomes and those whose needs are not well served by the status quo. Publications, statistics, & more are available.

The Commonwealth Fund is a private foundation that aims to promote a high performing health care system that achieves better access, improved quality, and greater efficiency, particularly for society's most vulnerable. The Fund carries out this mandate by supporting independent research on health care issues and making grants to improve health care practice and policy. An international program in health policy is designed to stimulate innovative policies and practices in the United States and other industrialized countries. Data, publications, surveys are available on their site.

A non-profit organization focused on national health issues, as well as the U.S. role in global health policy. KFF develops and runs policy analysis, journalism and communications programs, sometimes in partnership with major news organizations. We serve as a non-partisan source of facts, analysis and journalism for policymakers, the media, the health policy community and the public.