Decentralizing health services: More local accountability or just more central control?

Public Money and Management

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 221-228

  Peckham, Stephen ^a   Exworthy, Mark ^b   Greener, Ian ^c   Powell, Martin ^d  

^a OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^d University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 23444456606     PISSN: 09540962     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9302.2005.00477.x     Document Type: Review

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