Synopsis This book on Health Care Management and Administration has been designed to inject administrative skills, capability and capacity among health personnel which can be used by health personnel in providing decent health care as it has been realized that the state of hopelessness and frustration among people is not because of the lack of professional knowledge or competence, but due to poor administration of health services. Part I from Chapters 1 to 8 deal with general management like policy-making, planning, chief executive, decision-making, organizing, supervision, communication, co-ordination and control, and headquarter-field relationship. Part II from Chapters 9-15 concentrate on the management of health manpower-significance of human resources, health manpower planning, personnel training and induction, performance appraisal, career development and career planning, professional standards, planning nursing education and ward administration. Part III from Chapters 16-19 examine materials management, drugs management, equipment management, records management. Part IV from Chapters 20-21 deal with financial management for health, performance budgeting and zero-base budgeting to inject financial discipline. Part V from Chapters 22-28 deals with innovations in health management of inter-personnel relations and transactional analysis, motivation and morale, time management, Human Resource Development, Project management, HRD and modernizing health administration. All the chapters are supplemented by charts, tables and case studies.