Main description:

-First edition by McGraw-Hill, 1998.
-Textbook for courses on health administration and planning

-Author is fairly well-known in the field.

Contents:

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

* Generally strengthen chapter

Chapter 12: Research Methods

* Update overall, strengthening qualitative research

* Insert new methodologies, including data modeling techniques

* Add research methods reflective of the population health emphasis on neglected metrics and non-health types of data

Chapter 13: Information Resources and Data Management

* Greatly expand sources of health data in the light of non-health types of data

* Expand to include non-health data

Chapter 14: The Future of Health Services Planning

* Update and expand

Appendices

* Review all appendices and update as appropriate

Throughout update references and additional resources