Integrating Organizational Development Skills with Community Organization Practice: The Key to Successful National Health Care Programs

The article describes the developmental stages of a health care project from the inception as a demonstration project until its establishment as a large scale national program. The skills and competencies required of a project administrator during the demonstration stage are more related to the prac...

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Published in:International quarterly of community health education 1989-04, Vol.10 (1), p.39-51
Main Authors: Gunatilake, Sarath, Forouzesh, Mohammed R.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Bureaucracy
Communities
Community organizations
Community work
Curricula
Developmental stages
Health care
Health education
Health services
National programmes
Organization development
Organizational aspects
Skills
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Summary:The article describes the developmental stages of a health care project from the inception as a demonstration project until its establishment as a large scale national program. The skills and competencies required of a project administrator during the demonstration stage are more related to the practice of community organization. However, in expanding a demonstration project to a large scale national program, these administrators are confronted with a multitude of bureaucratic and organizational constraints. The skills and competencies required of a program manager at this stage are best grouped under the field of organizational development. The failure of many large programs can be traced to the lack of organizational development skills among those involved in managing them. The implications for organizational development training within the curriculum of instruction in health education are also discussed.
ISSN:0272-684X
2752-535X
1541-3519
2752-5368
DOI:10.2190/8628-PJLR-KQJJ-TKTF