Perspectives of knowledge management in urban health [electronic resource] / edited by Michael Christopher Gibbons, Rajeev K. Bali, Nilmini Wickramasinghe.

The book offers a global framework for organizational competence leading to improved care quality and outcomes for traditionally underserved clients in diverse, challenging settings. It includes case studies from Washington, D.C., South Africa and Australia.

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Online Access: Full Text (via Springer)
Other Authors: Gibbons, Michael Christopher, Bali, Rajeev K., 1972-, Wickramasinghe, Nilmini
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York ; London : Springer, 2010.
Series:Healthcare delivery in the information age.
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Table of Contents:
  • Knowledge management for the urban health context
  • Healthcare knowledge management: incorporating the tools technologies strategies and process of KM to effect superior healthcare delivery
  • Knowledge management in the urban health context: moving towards tacit-to-tacit knowledge transfer
  • A childhood/adolescent knowledge management system for urban area health programs in the District of Columbia
  • Urban health in developing countries
  • A pervasive wireless knowledge management solution to address urban health inequalities with indigenous Australians
  • The development of a framework to evaluate the management of HIV/AIDS programmes in rural and urban South Africa
  • The potential of serious games for improving health and reducing urban health inequalities
  • A scalable and viable strategy for managing organization: typology of intervening into complex healthcare environment for enhancing its continual development
  • Amplifying resonance in organizational learning process: knowledge sharing for overcoming cognitive barriers and for assuring positive action
  • Developing new urban health metrics to reduce the know-do gap in public health
  • Recommendations on evaluation and development of useful metrics for urban health
  • Making sense of urban health knowledge.