Community Monitoring in Health Resources for the Practitioner |
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Gatekeeper
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A health professional, who may be a medical practitioner, nurse or other professional, who has the first encounter with an individual and controls the individual's entry into the health care system.
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Governance
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The exercise of political, economic and administrative authority in the management of an organization’s affairs at all levels.
The process of creating an organizational vision and mission - what it will be and what it will do - in addition to defining the goals and objectives that should be met to achieve the vision and mission; of articulating the organization, its owners and the policies that derive from these values - policies concerning the options that its members should have in order to achieve the desired outcomes; and adopting the management necessary for achieving those results and a performance evaluation of the managers and the organization as a whole. |