Framing the decision to contract out elderly care and primary health care services - Perspectives of local level politicians and civil servants in Finland

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Tynkkynen, Liina Kaisa ^a   Lehto, Juhani ^a   Miettinen, Sari ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONSUMER; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DECISION MAKING; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ECONOMICS; ELDERLY CARE; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; FINLAND; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE MANPOWER; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MANAGEMENT; METHODOLOGY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; POLITICS; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SOCIAL WORK; STANDARD; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

CONSUMER PARTICIPATION; CONTRACT SERVICES; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; DECISION MAKING; ECONOMIC COMPETITION; FINLAND; HEALTH MANPOWER; HEALTH SERVICES FOR THE AGED; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; LOCAL GOVERNMENT; POLICY MAKING; POLITICS; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PRIVATE SECTOR; PUBLIC SECTOR; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; SOCIAL WORK;

EID: 84864593119     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-12-201     Document Type: Article

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