| dc.description.abstract | Health systems in Canada, as in many other
countries, have been crisis oriented. Expenditure upon all
areas of the disease curing professions has risen at an
accelerating rate in the past decade. The post-war
introduction and development of national health insurance
has led to massive construction and operating costs of
health services institutions, with complex technology and
expensive employment of specialists in all areas of medicine
and allied health services. A substantial burden has been
placed upon the taxpayer. His Support of institutional
health care remains strong, but governments and their
planners are attempting to control the growth pattern by
altering the emphasis from hospital care to health
maintenance systems. This is causing chamges, not least in
demands upon present and future managers, and the object of
this thesis is to examine these changes, with direct
reference to educational implications.
It is held by this researcher that administrators
have needs for education which are presently not being
satisfied. An investigation of present programs has been
undertaken and evaluations made of the extent to which
their graduates will be able to meet managerial demands
made upon them. Account has been taken of publications by
experts in this area, and the writer has discussed education for health services administration with experts
in several countries. Concerns such as health management
as a profession; the level of education needed* and the
conflict between generic and specialist programs have been
carefully examineds all these have been studied in the
context of future requirements.
Recent developments in Canadian universities have
been investigated. In 1979 significant changes are taking
place* affecting several higher degree programs* and caused
by the introduction of three baccalaureate degrees. This
writer criticizes them in terms of their ability to satisfy
unmet needs* and presents his own national program. It is
intended to meet and satisfy both ongoing and anticipated
future requirements* with the objective that Canadian
health administrators shall be better equipped to undertake
future complex tasks. | |
