SETTING: Kerala State, India, implemented decentralising reforms of healthcare institutions
25 years ago through transfer of administrative control and a sizeable share of the financial …

Among the key questions raised in this chapter regarding decentralization are: what powers
are decentralized and to whom are these powers decentralized? Following on from these …

In this article, we investigate developments in Danish health care policy. After a short
presentation of its historical roots, we focus on the decades after the administrative reform of …

In this paper we present alternatives for describing and explaining the developments of
Nordic health care in general and hospitals in particular. The backdrop is the Norwegian …

The political pressure to change how hospital governance is currently organized comes from
a mix of sources, including increasing costs, technological advances, changing patterns of …

Governance of public hospitals in Europe is changing. Individual hospitals have been given
varying degrees of semi-autonomy within the public sector and empowered to make key …

Purpose Neo-liberal “reform” has in many countries shifted services across the boundary
between the public and private sector. This policy re-opens the question of what structural …

There have been few studies of spatialized discourse within contemporary healthcare policy‐
making. This paper addresses this omission, focusing on the governmental presentation of …

Providing a well-integrated, cost-effective, quality health care system that meets the needs of
the population is challenging for governments worldwide. In Australia, this challenge is …

Studies of policy‐making and management in health and related fields have generally been
confined to England even when professing to embrace Britain or the United Kingdom. The …