A DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH TO UNDERSTANDING ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN HEALTH CARE.

Health care is quite different from other industries because of its organizational structure, service delivery, and financing of health services. Balancing costs, quality, and access presents unique challenges for each stakeholder group committed to promoting the health and healing of its citizens. Using the diagnostic approach to health care entrepreneurship, we created a framework from research in the field to understand the predisposing, enabling, and reinforcing factors most relevant to successful entrepreneurship. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]