Preface or Foreword (TBD): Why a new edition now (last 2003)
Chapter 1: Introduction to Health Services Planning
- Update definition/conceptualization of "plan", "planning"
- Insert the changing political environment for planning (along with changing perceptions of the role of planning)
- Update who needs planning and why they need it
Chapter 2: Overview of Health Planning
- Add national-level planning to community-wide and organization-wide planning - Role of the Affordable Care Act and other legislative developments
- Update current status of health planning - Update health planning in other countries
Chapter 3: The Social Context for Health Services Planning
- Update/expand the social and cultural context (as well as demographics)
- Insert section on the changing healthcare environment
- Update the transformation of the U.S. healthcare system
- Add box on immigration and health status
Chapter 4: The Health Systems Context for Health Services Planning
- Update/expand the social and cultural context (as well as demographics)
- Insert section on the changing healthcare environment
- Update the transformation of the U.S. healthcare system
- Add box on immigration and health status
New Chapter TBD: Insert chapter on the changing perception of health status, the emergence of the population health movement, and the shift in emphasis from the healthcare system to the community Chapter 5: Health Services Demand and Utilization
- Insert section on the changing nature of health conditions
- Update factors influencing demand, estimating the demand for health services
- Add box on predictive analytics
Chapter 6: The Planning Process
- Revise in the light of developments in planning methodology
Chapter 7: The Community Assessment Process
- Add history of CHNAs
- Revise in the light of new perceptions of health status (from new chapter above)
- Describe the "new" CHNA approach
Chapter 8: The Planning Audit (consider combining parts of Chapters 6-7) - Update in the light of emphasis on the social determinants of health
Chapter 9: Strategic Planning (more distinctly separate from Chapters 6-7)
- Update to reflect contemporary thinking with regard to strategic planning
Chapter 10: Marketing Planning
- Incorporate the role of social media
Chapter 11: Business Planning
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