The paper discusses the responses to the COVID-19 crisis in the acute phase of the first
wave of the pandemic (February-May 2020) by different Italian regions in Italy, which has a …

Background Decentralised governance of health care has been widely adopted globally
over the past three decades. But despite being implemented as a management strategy …

Background: Patient satisfaction is an essential parameter in the assessment of quality of
care and healthcare facility performance. Objective: To investigate patients' satisfaction with …

Abstract The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia espoused “Vision 2030” as a strategy for economic
development and national growth. The vision demonstrated the Kingdom's objectives to …

A broad-ranging introduction to the provision, funding and governance of health care across
a variety of systems. This revised fifth edition incorporates additional material on low/middle …

This article compares the functioning of the intergovernmental systems in Italy and Spain
facing the COVID-19 crisis. Combining the public administration literature on policy learning …

The Italian National Health Service began experimenting with a significant regionalisation
process during the 1990s. The purpose of this article is to assess the effects that this …

A major shift appears to be underway in Europe in the relationship between national,
regional, and local control over health sector decision-making. Since World War II, a central …

In many European countries, since the World War II, there has been a trend towards
decentralization of health policy to lower levels of governments, while more recently there …

Objectives The aim of this article was to provide a description of the Hungarian care
managing organization (CMO) pilot program and its environment, incentive structure, and …