Foundations of Health Care Management: Principles and Methods is designed to be a concise, reader-friendly, introductory text covering the most important issues in health care management, such as ethics, cost management, strategic planning and marketing, information technology, and human resources. The book offers important insights into the area of management of health care organizations and health care workers.the authors provide comprehensive coverage of the major issues that will be faced as managers of scarce resources during the revolution in health services delivery over the next five to 10 years. Among these revolutionary forces are health reform, comparative effectiveness research, increases in the use of information and patient care technology, labor shortages, and continuing evolution in the role of patients as consumers, The book serves an important dual purposefor faculty and students by providing both insights into the health care field as well as foundational content on essential management and leadership.