The challenge of health sector reform: what must governments do?

From:
Department for International Development
Published
4 December 2006
Document Type:
Book
Theme:
Health
Authors:
Mills, A., Bennett, S., Hongoro, C., Russell, S., Attanayake, N., Muraleedharan, V., Smithson, P.

Abstract

New thinking about the management of public health services has stimulated a widespread movement for health sector reform across the world. This book examines the feasibility and desirability of common reforms in low income countries, based on in-depth case studies in Ghana, Zimbabwe, Sri Lanka, India and Thailand, and asks whether governments possess or can develop the capacities needed for these new and often complex roles. The book challenges conventional reform wisdom, and argues that reform approaches are needed that are more sensitive to the institutional characteristics of individual countries.

Citation

Oxford: Macmillan Press, pp 264

The challenge of health sector reform: what must governments do?

Published 4 December 2006
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