The Myths of Health Care

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxvi

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2. Managing in Health Care: Cues and Reflections

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Managing the Myths of Health Care

      • Henry Mintzberg

      Pages 3-11

   3. The Historical Evolution of Health Concepts and Approaches: The Challenge of Complexity

      • Paola Adinolfi, Elio Borgonovi

      Pages 13-24

   4. A Plural Analysis of Health Myths: Overview of the Volume

      • Paola Adinolfi, Elio Borgonovi

      Pages 25-39

3. Going Through Health Myths

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 41-41

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   2. Myth #1: The Healthcare System Is Failing

      • Umberto Veronesi, Maurizio Mauri, Mario Del Vecchio, Patrizio Armeni, Vincenza Esposito, Mario Pezzillo Iacono et al.

      Pages 43-66

   3. Myth #2: The Healthcare System Can Be Fixed by Clever Social Engineering

      • Emanuele Lettieri, Cristina Masella, Corrado Cuccurullo, Fernando Giancotti

      Pages 67-86

   4. Myth #3: Healthcare Institutions as Well as the Overall System Can Be Fixed by Bringing in the Great Leader

      • Anna Maria Livia Colao, Pasquale Antonio Riccio, Antonio Botti, Aurelio Tommasetti, Massimo Sargiacomo, Antonio D’Andreamatteo et al.

      Pages 87-102

   5. Myth #4: The Healthcare System Can Be Fixed by Treating It More as a Business

      • Federico Lega, Emanuele Vendramini, Giuseppe Festa, Enrico Coscioni

      Pages 103-121

   6. Myth #5: Health Care Is Rightly Left to the Private Sector, for the Sake of Efficiency

      • Oriana Ciani, Aleksandra Torbica, Francesca Lecci, Marco Morelli, Michael Drummond, Rosanna Tarricone et al.

      Pages 123-154

   7. Myth #6: Health Care Is Rightly Controlled by the Public Sector, for the Sake of Equality

      • Andrea Silenzi, Alessio Santoro, Walter Ricciardi, Anna Prenestini, Stefano Calciolari, Silvio Garattini et al.

      Pages 155-176

   8. Myth #7: The Myth of Measurement

      • Matteo Motterlini, Carlo Canepa, Sabina Nuti, Marina Davoli, Chiara Marinacci, Renato Botti et al.

      Pages 177-210

   9. Myth #8: The Myth of Scale

      • Rocco Palumbo, Gabriella Piscopo, Maria Grazia Sampietro, Marcello Martinez, Luigi Moschera, Gianluigi Mangia et al.

      Pages 211-229

   10. Health Myths and Service-Dominant Logic

       • Evert Gummesson, Gerardine Doyle, Alessandra Storlazzi, Carmela Annarumma, Giuseppe Favretto, Aurelio Tommasetti et al.

       Pages 231-251

4. Lessons Learnt

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 253-253

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   2. Looking Through the Lens of the Complexity Paradigm

      • Paola Adinolfi, Elio Borgonovi

      Pages 255-264

5. Erratum to: Myth #3: Healthcare Institutions as Well as the Overall System Can Be Fixed by Bringing in the Great Leader

   • Anna Maria Livia Colao, Pasquale Antonio Riccio, Antonio Botti, Aurelio Tommasetti, Massimo Sargiacomo, Antonio D’Andreamatteo et al.

   Pages E1-E1

6. Erratum to: The Myths of Health Care

   • Paola Adinolfi, Elio Borgonovi

   Pages E3-E3

7. Back Matter

   Pages 265-272

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This provocative appraisal unpacks commonly held beliefs about healthcare management and replaces them with practical strategies and realistic policy goals. Using Henry Mintzberg’s “Myths of Healthcare” as a springboard, it reveals management practices that undermine care delivery, explores their cultural and corporate origins, and details how they may be reversed through changes in management strategy, organization, scale, and style. Tackling conventional wisdom about decision-making, cost-effectiveness, service quality, and equity, contributors fine-tune concepts of mission and vision by promoting collaboration, engagement, and common sense. The book’s multidisciplinary panel of experts analyzes the most popular healthcare management “myths,” among them:

·         The healthcare system is failing.

·         The healthcare system can be fixed through social engineering. ·         Healthcare institutions can be fixed by bringing in the heroic leader.

·         The healthcare system can be fixed by treating it more as a business.

·         Healthcare is rightly left to the private sector, for the sake of efficiency.

The Myths of Health Care speaks to a large, diverse audience: scholars of all levels interested in the research in health policy and management, graduate and under-graduate students attending courses in leadership and management of public sector organization, and practitioners in the field of health care.

• health care leadership
• healthcare leadership
• health care organizations
• healthcare organizations
• Henry Mintzberg's myths of healthcare management
• myths of health care management
• myths of healthcare management
• health care expenditures
• healthcare expenditures
• innovative models of health care
• appropriateness, effectiveness, and efficiency of care
• national health systems
• Evert Gummesson
• healthcare provision
• healthcare services
• healthcare delivery
• health care provision
• health care services
• health care delivery

• Centro Interdip.di Ricerca, Universita di Salerno Centro Interdip.di Ricerca, Fisciano, Italy

  Paola Adinolfi

• Dept of Policy Analysis & Public Mgmt, University Luigi Bocconi Dept of Policy Analysis & Public Mgmt, Milano, Italy

  Elio Borgonovi

Paola Adinolfi, PhD, head of the Department of Management and Information Technology and full professor of Organizational Studies at the University of Salerno, Fisciano (SA), Italy.


Elio Borgonovi, full professor of Economics and Management of Public Sector Organizations at University Luigi Bocconi in Milan, Italy.

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