The Myths of Health Care

Part I. Managing in Health Care: Cues and Reflections

1. Managing the Myths of Health Care
Henry Mintzberg

2. The Historical Evolution of Health Concepts and Approaches: The Challenge of Complexity
Paola Adinolfi, Elio Borgonovi

3. A Plural Analysis of Health Myths: Overview of the Volume
Paola Adinolfi, Elio Borgonovi

Part II. Going Through Health Myths

4. Myth #1: The Healthcare System Is Failing
Umberto Veronesi, Maurizio Mauri, Mario Vecchio, Patrizio Armeni, Vincenza Esposito, Mario Pezzillo Iacono, Lorenzo Mercurio, Joseph Polimeni

5. Myth #2: The Healthcare System Can Be Fixed by Clever Social Engineering
Emanuele Lettieri, Cristina Masella, Corrado Cuccurullo, Fernando Giancotti

6. 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

7. Myth #4: The Healthcare System Can Be Fixed by Treating It More as a Business
Federico Lega, Emanuele Vendramini, Giuseppe Festa, Enrico Coscioni

8. 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, Maurizio Cicco, Salvatore Russo, Luca Bene

9. 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, Vittorio Bertelè, Riccardo Mercurio, Stefano Consiglio, Mariavittoria Cicellin

10. Myth #7: The Myth of Measurement
Matteo Motterlini, Carlo Canepa, Sabina Nuti, Marina Davoli, Chiara Marinacci, Renato Botti, Giuseppe Iuliano, Gaetano Matonti, Paolo Tartaglia Polcini, Ettore Cinque, Francesco Bevere, Paola Adinolfi

11. Myth #8: The Myth of Scale
Rocco Palumbo, Gabriella Piscopo, Maria Grazia Sampietro, Marcello Martinez, Louis Moschera, Gianluigi Mangia, Daniela Scaramuccia, Alberto Calvo

12. Health Myths and Service-Dominant Logic
Evert Gummesson, Gerardine Doyle, Alessandra Storlazzi, Carmela Annarumma, Giuseppe Favretto, Aurelio Tommasetti, Massimiliano Vesci

Part III. Lessons Learnt

13. Looking Through the Lens of the Complexity Paradigm
Paola Adinolfi, Elio Borgonovi

Keywords: Business and Management, Health Care Management, Health Administration, Health Economics