Back to basics: Does decentralization improve health system performance? Evidence from Ceará in north-east Brazil

Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Volumn 82, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 822-827

  Atkinson, Sarah ^a,b   Haran, Dave ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b Curso de Especialização em Assistência Farmacêutica   (Brazil)

^c LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Brazil; Community health services organization and administration; Delivery of health care organization and administration; Efficiency, Organizational; Informal sector; Politics; Quality indicators, Health care; Regression analysis

Indexed keywords

DECENTRALIZATION; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH SERVICES;

ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; ORGANIZATION; PERFORMANCE; POLITICS;

BRAZIL; COMMUNITY HEALTH PLANNING; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; HEALTH CARE REFORM; HUMANS; LOCAL GOVERNMENT; MODELS, ORGANIZATIONAL; POLITICS; PUBLIC HEALTH ADMINISTRATION; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; QUESTIONNAIRES; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

BRAZIL; CEARA; SOUTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 9644254291     PISSN: 00429686     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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