Types of changes and hospital planning strategies.
A major purpose of health planning agencies is to promote constructive changes among health institutions that are in the public interest. The approaches to promoting such changes in hospitals are examined in this article. The focus is on three types of change, the relationship of change to the environment, and three kinds of control mechanisms.
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