STEWARDSHIP: A Conceptual Imperative For Managerial Effectiveness In The Nigerian Health System

Unacceptable health status indicators such as high infant and maternal mortality rates and low life expectancy have continued unabated inspite of government efforts to change it. This paper espouses the concept of stewardship as a selfless, ethical, cost effective and outcome oriented approach to go...

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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Association of Resident Doctors (ARD), University College Hospital, Ibadan 2007
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4110990/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25161436
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description Unacceptable health status indicators such as high infant and maternal mortality rates and low life expectancy have continued unabated inspite of government efforts to change it. This paper espouses the concept of stewardship as a selfless, ethical, cost effective and outcome oriented approach to governance. It is believed that through stewardship approach governments would improve the health status of their populations considerably. The paper implores not only government and health care managers but the Nigerian society also to imbibe the concept of stewardship to make the development of a result-oriented health system easy.
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spelling pubmed-41109902014-08-26 STEWARDSHIP: A Conceptual Imperative For Managerial Effectiveness In The Nigerian Health System Ann Ib Postgrad Med Special Article Unacceptable health status indicators such as high infant and maternal mortality rates and low life expectancy have continued unabated inspite of government efforts to change it. This paper espouses the concept of stewardship as a selfless, ethical, cost effective and outcome oriented approach to governance. It is believed that through stewardship approach governments would improve the health status of their populations considerably. The paper implores not only government and health care managers but the Nigerian society also to imbibe the concept of stewardship to make the development of a result-oriented health system easy. Association of Resident Doctors (ARD), University College Hospital, Ibadan 2007-12 /pmc/articles/PMC4110990/ /pubmed/25161436 Text en © Association of Resident Doctors, UCH, Ibadan http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an open access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0) which permits unrestricted, non-commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is properly cited.
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STEWARDSHIP: A Conceptual Imperative For Managerial Effectiveness In The Nigerian Health System
title STEWARDSHIP: A Conceptual Imperative For Managerial Effectiveness In The Nigerian Health System
title_full STEWARDSHIP: A Conceptual Imperative For Managerial Effectiveness In The Nigerian Health System
title_fullStr STEWARDSHIP: A Conceptual Imperative For Managerial Effectiveness In The Nigerian Health System
title_full_unstemmed STEWARDSHIP: A Conceptual Imperative For Managerial Effectiveness In The Nigerian Health System
title_short STEWARDSHIP: A Conceptual Imperative For Managerial Effectiveness In The Nigerian Health System
title_sort stewardship: a conceptual imperative for managerial effectiveness in the nigerian health system
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4110990/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25161436

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