Task Shifting – An Alternative Survival Strategy for Health-care Organizations
Architha Aithal1, and P. S. Aithal2
1Third year Pharma D., Srinivas College of Pharmacy, Valachil, Mangalore-574143, INDIA
2Srinivas Institute of Management Studies, Srinivas University, Mangalore – 575001, India
E-mail : psaithal@gmail.com
ABSTRACT
There are many types of strategies to be followed by managers and leaders depending on the type of problems, objectives, circumstances, privileges, preferences, advantages, constraints and opportunities. Alternative strategy and survival strategy are two important strategies which are to be used in the strategic management of organizations depending on the constraints in availability of required resources and the …show more content…
D., et al during 2012 [74]. They identified six effectiveness studies including a total of 19,767 patients. Non-inferior patient outcomes were achieved with task-shifting from doctors to nurses, or from healthcare professionals to mid-level workers or lay health workers. However, most of the identified studies were underpowered to detect any difference. Three studies were identified on the cost implications of task-shifting. Task-shifting resulted in substantial cost and physician time savings and concluded that task-shifting from doctors to nurses, or from healthcare professionals to lay health workers can potentially reduce costs of ART provision without compromising health outcomes for patients. Task-shifting is, therefore, a potentially effective and cost-effective approach to address the human resource limitations to ART rollout …show more content…
Task shifting requires careful attention and evaluation to organization, structure, and resourcing of health services. Crucially, it requires the integration of the concept and roles of new cadres, into the mainstream health system, and integrated strategic reconfiguration of healthcare teams, particularly at primary care and community levels. It is observed from section 3, the review of literature that in several countries, task shifting has been enthusiastically and voluntarily taken up by non-governmental organizations (NGOs) with strong community links at the local level, but with limited opportunity and the potential for scaling-up to the national level, as their presence is often
Architha Aithal1, and P. S. Aithal2
1Third year Pharma D., Srinivas College of Pharmacy, Valachil, Mangalore-574143, INDIA
2Srinivas Institute of Management Studies, Srinivas University, Mangalore – 575001, India
E-mail : psaithal@gmail.com
ABSTRACT
There are many types of strategies to be followed by managers and leaders depending on the type of problems, objectives, circumstances, privileges, preferences, advantages, constraints and opportunities. Alternative strategy and survival strategy are two important strategies which are to be used in the strategic management of organizations depending on the constraints in availability of required resources and the …show more content…
D., et al during 2012 [74]. They identified six effectiveness studies including a total of 19,767 patients. Non-inferior patient outcomes were achieved with task-shifting from doctors to nurses, or from healthcare professionals to mid-level workers or lay health workers. However, most of the identified studies were underpowered to detect any difference. Three studies were identified on the cost implications of task-shifting. Task-shifting resulted in substantial cost and physician time savings and concluded that task-shifting from doctors to nurses, or from healthcare professionals to lay health workers can potentially reduce costs of ART provision without compromising health outcomes for patients. Task-shifting is, therefore, a potentially effective and cost-effective approach to address the human resource limitations to ART rollout …show more content…
Task shifting requires careful attention and evaluation to organization, structure, and resourcing of health services. Crucially, it requires the integration of the concept and roles of new cadres, into the mainstream health system, and integrated strategic reconfiguration of healthcare teams, particularly at primary care and community levels. It is observed from section 3, the review of literature that in several countries, task shifting has been enthusiastically and voluntarily taken up by non-governmental organizations (NGOs) with strong community links at the local level, but with limited opportunity and the potential for scaling-up to the national level, as their presence is often