Preface or Foreword (TBD): Why a new edition now (last 2003)
Chapter 1: Introduction to Health Services Planning
· Update definition/conceptualization of “plan”, “planning”
· Insert the changing political environment for planning (along with changing perceptions of the role of planning)
· Update who needs planning and why they need it
Chapter 2: Overview of Health Planning
· Add national-level planning to community-wide and organization-wide planning
· Role of the Affordable Care Act and other legislative developments
· Update current status of health planning
· Update health planning in other countries
Chapter 3: The Social Context for Health Services Planning
· Update/expand the social and cultural context (as well as demographics)
· Insert section on the changing healthcare environment
· Update the transformation of the U.S. healthcare system
· Add box on immigration and health status
Chapter 4: The Health Systems Context for Health Services Planning
· Update/expand the social and cultural context (as well as demographics)
· Insert section on the changing healthcare environment
· Update the transformation of the U.S. healthcare system
· Add box on immigration and health status
New Chapter TBD: Insert chapter on the changing perception of health status, the emergence of the population health movement, and the shift in emphasis from the healthcare system to the community
Chapter 5: Health Services Demand and Utilization
· Insert section on the changing nature of health conditions
· Update factors influencing demand, estimating the demand for health services
· Add box on predictive analytics
Chapter 6: The Planning Process
· Revise in the light of developments in planning methodology
Chapter 7: The Community Assessment Process
· Add history of CHNAs
· Revise in the light of new perceptions of health status (from new chapter above)
· Describe the “new” CHNA approach
Chapter 8: The Planning Audit (consider combining parts of Chapters 6-7) · Update in the light of emphasis on the social determinants of health
Chapter 9: Strategic Planning (more distinctly separate from Chapters 6-7)
· Update to reflect contemporary thinking with regard to strategic planning
Chapter 10: Marketing Planning
· Incorporate the role of social media
Chapter 11: Business Planning
· Generally strengthen chapter
Chapter 12: Research Methods
· Update overall, strengthening qualitative research
· Insert new methodologies, including data modeling techniques
· Add research methods reflective of the population health emphasis on neglected metrics and non-health types of data
Chapter 13: Information Resources and Data Management
· Greatly expand sources of health data in the light of non-health types of data
· Expand to include non-health data
Chapter 14: The Future of Health Services Planning
· Update and expand
Appendices
· Review all appendices and update as appropriate
Throughout update references and additional resources
