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Health sector is most complex, dynamic, multidimensional, and sensitive sector which is directly related to human health and development. There is no perfect health system and health service delivery model in the world. Ever emerging new knowledge and technologies in health care and changing health and disease patterns have made it more challenging. What is perfect today may get obsolete sooner or later. The world has been witnessing dramatic changes due to demographic and epidemiological transitions, political, social, and economic environment, technolog-ical advances, new emerging health financing mechanisms, and innovations in health sector. While the challenges of infectious communicable diseases, poor maternal and child health, and poor water and sanitation continue to persist, emergence of non-communicable diseases—diabetes, hypertension, ischemic heart diseases, cancers, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, mental illness—has posed a serious challenge for the health systems. These diseases require long-term care and higher health expen-diture. Emerging new infections and reemergence old diseases have threatened the humanity. The recent COVID-19 pandemic has raised serious concerns for the health systems all over the world. Even the developed countries, having strong infrastruc-ture, efficient delivery systems, large budget allocations for health, etc., had struggled and found themselves deficient in coping with the situation.

The concept of health management evolved from the slow pace of improvement in health situation despite huge investment in human resources, health infrastruc-ture, financing health, availability of drugs and medicines, and advances diagnostic and therapeutic technology. It was perhaps due to clandestine lack of management competencies and skills among the health professionals in strategy development and management of health organizations and health systems. Management competencies are not the part of medical curriculum. Hence the creation of a new discipline of health management was crucial to train human resources to manage hospitals and health-care organizations effectively and efficiently. The discipline of health management combined the theories and practices in public health and management.