Author/Authors :
KALKAN, Mirza Gazi Üniversitesi - Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü (SBE) - Hastane İşletmeciliği BilimDalı, Turkey , SÖKMEN, Alptekin Gazi Üniversitesi - İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi - İşletme Bölümü, Turkey , BIYIK, Yunus Gazi Üniversitesi - İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi - İşletme Bölümü, Turkey
Title Of Article :
OUTSOURCING IN HEALTH SERVICES: PRACTICE OF ANKARA PUBLIC HEALTH DIRECTORATE
Abstract :
Through outsourcing, companies focus on their core competences by assigning their non-core activities to specialized firms. Outsourcing non-core activities by both public and private organizations has become one of the fundamental rules of modern business administration. Health organization has also started to benefit from outsourcing. Health organizations focus on treatment and diagnostics as their core competences while outsourcing their non-core activities such as catering, cleaning, safety, purchasing. As a health organization, Ankara Public Health Directorate benefits from outsourcing as well. It outsources its non-core activities as cleaning, safety and catering together with its some core activities such as laboratory services. Therefore, Ankara Public Health Directorate gets significant cost advantage.
NaturalLanguageKeyword :
Health Services , Outsourcing , Ankara Public Health Directorate
JournalTitle :
Journal Of Economics and Administrative Sciences
