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THE METHODS OF EXTERNAL ENVIRONMENTAL ANALYSIS IN HEALTH INSTI-TUTIONS

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  • 1. Azerbaijan State University of Economics, Department of Business

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It is a fundamental necessity for health institutions to conduct an environmental analysis in order to protect themselves from threats arising from their competitors and to take advantage of prospective opportunities.

Choosing and implementing an environmental analysis technique appropriate to their  organizational structure can enable health institutions to fittingly and sustainability position them for the future.  Such an analysis technique can also create certain advantages for these health institutions for utilizing opportunities to full extent.

In this study, environmental analysis techniques are explained and discussed with examples from the health sector. Through observed examples from the health sector, we show that some health institutions choose to use a single environmental analysis technique, while others employ several analysis techniques together. It is believed that the explanations and discussions based on factual examples will help health institutions and health managers determine appropriate set of environmental analysis techniques, in in return can be used in developing evidence based and implementable strategies.

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