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Administration; Health Services Management; Hospital or other healthcare organization-specific administration and management; Health planning and evaluation; Health policy and other related activities"
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refers to me; if so, I'd appreciate if you would refrain from personal attacks in the future. The reason I proposed a merge is because, if you look at the articles as they exist today, they are almost exactly the same. For example, the lead from Health administration says "The discipline is known by
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What a nuisance with all the merger proposals. The real mess with health systems is the dominance of the understanding that administration is equal to management. It is not and wll never be. The fact is that all administration appears as a burden and all management should enhance services. A better
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In short, both due to the existing content of the articles which overlaps a fair amount, and many of the sources cited, there does not seem to be a clear enough distinction between health administration and health management, so I think these articles should be merged. If we merge the articles, we
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many names, including health management, healthcare management, health systems management, health care systems management, and medical and health services management." The last paragraph of both articles is almost EXACTLY the same. If you look at the
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could add a section that notes that there is confusion, and there is perhaps some minority view that is trying to make a distinction between the fields, but it would need to be backed up by references. --
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segregation of contents for two topics as existing would be appreciated, but please do not merge to save titles. Merging is no approach to improve quality and to enhance transparency.
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