Future Challenges for Health Care Management

FUTURE CHALLENGES FOR HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT
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Societal services provided by the health care sector encompass wellness programs that
include preventive and curative treatment, medical and emergency services, rehabilitation, and
activity coordination in the field of public health and nursing. Health care management defines
the managerial and leadership activity applied to make a country’s health care system successful.
Because health care directly relates to life, its management has been characterized by numerous
challenges and controversies in the past.
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The future presents even more challenges. Such
challenges relate to societal politics, changes in human life demography, increased societal
literacy, unachievable expectations, and the increasingly expensive cost of health care services.
Health care systems have remained targets political activity for decades. This will not
change in the near future. This is because many politicians know that they can secure electorate
and political goodwill when they are associated with success in health care. In cases where there
is a failure in the system, they could also obtain public trust by implicating various health care
managers even if those implicated were innocent. Further, policies related to health care usually
attract intense political debates and present platforms for individual politicians and political
parties to shine as long as they are seen to favor the opinions of the electorate.
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This includes
instances where the ideas they support or criticize should be considered in terms of health care
professionalism and not political perspectives. Some of such cases include reproductive health,
euthanasia, abortion, and arguments for or against genetic engineering.
Another future challenge in health care relates to changes in human life demography. Due
to improved technology and efficiency, humans live longer as most diseases are easily
controlled. Because of this, the overall population of the old is on the rise. This segment of the
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. Walshe, Kieran. Healthcare Management (Maidenhead, Berkshire, England: McGraw
Hill/Open University Press, 2011), 2.
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. Ibid., 3.
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population largely relies on health care services for sustenance and survival.
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At the same time, it
is at these ages that chronic and complex health conditions arise. Notably, chronic diseases are
increasingly becoming more diverse and difficult to treat. On the overall, the demographic shift
in the society presents diverse challenges to the future management of health care.
A larger part of the population is progressively getting involved in health care practices
and policies more actively. This is because of increased literacy and dynamism. It is easy to note
that today’s population would like to have health care sectors consult and inform them about
health care policies and decisions.
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Predictably, the future populations will expect and demand
more from health care. Additionally, the populations are likely to be very articulate in demanding
more expensive and modern therapeutic measures.
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This will undoubtedly present a challenge to
health care management.
Finally, a challenge that relates to all other challenges for health care management is that
associated with the cost of obtaining quality health care. In the face of global economic
recession, funding health care remains a significant challenge to many governments and
organizations. Despite the fact that many governments increase their health care budget annually,
the cost of health care seems to be unendingly escalating. An addition to this is the fact that some
technological means of intervention require additional expenditure. For health care management,
the future presents the challenge of having to choose what to finance with the limited resources
and what to forgo. In sum, future challenges for health care management relate to politics,
demography, societal expectations, and the unendingly rising cost of health care.
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. Victor, Christina. Ageing, Health and Care (Bristol, UK: Policy Press, 2010), 8.
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. Duncan, Ian G. Managing and Evaluating Healthcare Intervention Programs (Winsted, CT:
ACTEX Publications, 2008), 232.
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. Ibid., 12.
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Bibliography
Duncan, Ian G. Managing and Evaluating Healthcare Intervention Programs. Winsted, CT:
ACTEX Publications, 2008.
Victor, Christina. Ageing, Health and Care. Bristol, UK: Policy Press, 2010.
Walshe, Kieran. Healthcare Management. Maidenhead, Berkshire, England: McGraw Hill/Open
University Press, 2011.

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