Going down to the local: Incorporating social organisation and political culture into assessments of decentralised health care

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 619-636

  Atkinson, Sarah ^a   Medeiros, Regianne Leila Rolim ^a,b   Oliveira, Paulo Henrique Lima ^a   De Almeida, Ricardo Dias ^a  

^a Oxford R ^*  (United Kingdom)

^b Curso de Especialização em Assistência Farmacêutica   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Brazil; Decentralisation; Health reforms; Political culture; Social organisation

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; DECENTRALIZATION; HEALTH CARE; ORGANIZATIONAL FRAMEWORK;

BRAZIL; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; REVIEW; SOCIAL STRUCTURE;

BRAZIL;

EID: 0034664189     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-9536(00)00005-8     Document Type: Article

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