Preface I. THE HEALTH SYSTEM 1. Health in Our Changing World -Mary F. Arnold 2. A Social Systems View of Health Action -Mary F. Arnold II. THE ACTORS IN THE HEALTH SYSTEM 3. Effects of Professionalism on Health Systems -Mary F.

Arnold 4. The Hospital Administrator's Emerging Professional Role -Rodney F. White 5. Occupational Group Striving in Public Health -Ray H. Elling 6. Organizational Control and the Public Health Nurse -Edna M. Grexton 7. The Professional Association and Collective Bargaining: The Case of the American Nurses Association -Joseph A.

Alutto III. THE POLITICAL CONTEXT OF HEALTH ADMINISTRATION 8. Emerging Patterns of Federalism: The Case of Public Health -David G. Smith 9. Health Organization: The Public Administrator's View -Morris Schaefer 10. Community Politics and Health Planning -Mary F. Arnold and Isabel M. Welsh 11.

Effects of Community P01ver on Hospital Organization-L. Vaughn Blankenship and Ray H. Elling IV. PLANNING AS A MEANS OF RATIONALIZING THE HEALTH SYSTEM 12. The Ecological Perspective -Edward S. Rogers 13. Philosophical Dilemmas in Health Planning -Mary F. Arnold 14.

Why We Need to Plan -Richard M. Bailey 15. Tools for Planning -Mary F. Arnold 16. Evaluation: A Parallel Process to Planning -Mary F. Arnold 17. Agency Problems with Community Health Planning -Mary F. Arnold and Douglas L.

Hink V. ORGANIZATIONAL PERSPECTIVES 18. The Life Cycle Dynamics of Health Service Organizations -David B. Starkweather and Arnold I. Kisch 19. Organizational Decision-Making -L. Vaughn Blankenship 20. Economies of Scale in Outpatient Medical Practice -Richard M.

Bailey 21. Estimating Costs of Laboratory Error to the Patient -Edward L. Cavenaugh 22. Health Officer Decision-Making: A Case Study -Mary F. Arnold 23. Health Agency Decision-Making: An Operations Research Perspective -David H. Stimson Index.