Background Pakistan embarked on a process of designing an essential package of health
services (EPHS) as a pathway towards universal health coverage (UHC). The EPHS design …

Neoteric studies have called attention to the prominence of management in healthcare
sectors. Positive relationship have been noticed between performance management, clinical …

Based on inductive qualitative multiple case studies of MNE subsidiaries in a sub-Saharan
African market, this study investigates how multiple political networking capabilities are …

Government information activities are often thought to be motivated by a classic calculus of
blame minimization and credit maximization. However, the precise interactions of “blame” …

While the idea that policy-makers are motivated by the desire to earn “credit” for their work
has a long history, policy studies since Weaver (J Public Policy 6 (4): 371–398, 1986) have …

Stakeholders play an important role in health priority setting, and their roles have been
discussed in the literature, mainly in relationship to their power. An emerging body of …

Purpose Current conditions have intensified the need for health systems to engage in the
difficult task of priority setting. As the search for a “magic bullet” is replaced by an …

Classical dilemmas of how to distribute limited resources have been rekindled by the rise of
advanced, high‐cost therapies. Building on a case study of a novel gene therapy in …

This article develops an analysis of population-level priority setting informed by Bevir's
decentred theory of governance and drawing on a qualitative study of priority setting for …

Disinvestment in health services is seen as challenging by decision-makers as the public
usually reacts strongly to rationing and retrenchments. Drawing on the literature on welfare …