Indigenous Peoples’ Health Care: New approaches to contracting and accountability at the public administration frontier

Public Management Review

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1091-1112

  Dwyer, Judith ^a   Boulton, Amohia ^b   Lavoie, Josée G ^c   Tenbensel, Tim ^d   Cumming, Jacqueline ^e  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Whakauae Research for Maori Health and Development   (New Zealand)

^c CHS Section of First Nations   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^e VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

accountability; contracting; indigenous primary health care; public management; Third sector organizations

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920142444     PISSN: 14719037     EISSN: 14719045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14719037.2013.868507     Document Type: Article

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