Healthcare management / administration is a broad but very necessary field.  While Specialists in different disciplines of medicine are essential in providing adequate patient care, healthcare management and administration professionals are also crucial to the operation of the business side of healthcare.  Healthcare administration may continue to be the main hub in the working of every healthcare organization.  Every healthcare facility has an individual or team of individuals who manage delivery of healthcare.

Recent advances in medicine have helped us understand many disease processes hitherto considered mysterious or otherwise attributed to fate or divine retribution.  Added to this, industrialization, rapid urbanization, break-up of the old joint family system into nuclear families with fewer and precious children and several other causes have made life stressful and introduced a whole lot of “life style diseases”