Overview
- Nontechnical, accessible treatment of knowledge management and healthcare delivery written for healthcare professionals and administrators rather than IT professionals
- First book to apply knowledge management concepts to urban health problems
- Generalizes lessons learned from the urban health context to public health and healthcare delivery at large, both at the national and international level
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Healthcare Delivery in the Information Age (Healthcare Delivery Inform. Age, volume 1)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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KM and Urban Health
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Incorporating KM Principles into Urban Health Contexts
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Measures and Metrics for KM and Urban Health
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About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
M. Chris Gibbons is Associate Director of the Johns Hopkins Urban Health Institute, Director of the Center for Community HEALTH and Assistant Professor of Public Health and Medicine at Johns Hopkins University. He is currently President of the International Society for Urban Health.
Rajeev K. Bali is a Reader in Healthcare Knowledge Management at Coventry University (UK). He is a Visiting Professor in Knowledge and Healthcare Management at the Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago, USA).
Nilmini Wickramasingh is the professor of Business IT & Logistics at RMIT University, Australia. In addition, Dr Wickramasinghe is the editor-in-chief of two scholarly journals: International Journal of Networking and Virtual Organisations and International Journal of Biomedical Engineering and Technology.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Perspectives of Knowledge Management in Urban Health
Editors: Michael Christopher Gibbons, Rajeev Bali, Nilmini Wickramasinghe
Series Title: Healthcare Delivery in the Information Age
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-5644-6
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag New York 2010
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-5643-9Published: 08 September 2010
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4614-2658-5Published: 06 November 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4419-5644-6Published: 19 August 2010
Series ISSN: 2191-5946
Series E-ISSN: 2191-5954
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXII, 220
Topics: Health Administration, Health Informatics, Biomedicine general, Medicine/Public Health, general