The aim of this paper is to assess the extent to which different levels of decentralisation across regions of the European Union (EU) affected citizens’ perceptions about European integration over the period 1973–2002.
Vassilis Tselios +2 more
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Comparing disparities in geographic proximity to exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation before and after decentralisation of services: a repeated cross-sectional study using individual-level register data [PDF]
Background Despite well-known benefits, cardiac rehabilitation (CR) programs suffer from non-participation, and travel distance is repeatedly reported as a participation barrier. Based on individual-level data, the objective of this study was to evaluate
Kristine Bihrmann +4 more
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The effects of decentralisation on patient and service outcomes: a case of the 2018 decentralisation of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in Zambia [PDF]
Introduction The Zambian government decentralised tuberculosis control programs by transferring responsibility for the care and treatment of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) patients from a two-national hospital model to provincial hospitals and
Tulani Francis L. Matenga +15 more
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Decentralisation: a multidisciplinary perspective
Decentralisation as a concept is attracting a lot of interest, not least with the rise of decentralised and distributed techno-social systems like Bitcoin, and distributed ledgers more generally.
Balázs Bodó +2 more
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Does decentralisation lead to higher citizens' satisfaction with the public services that local governments provide? Despite arguments that decentralisation improves public service delivery, studies have not successfully verified the effects of ...
Geiguen Shin, Byong‐Kuen Jhee
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This paper uses the SBM-GML model to measure and evaluate green total factor productivity based on the panel data of 30 provinces and cities in China from 2012 to 2018. It examines the impact of different dimensions of financial decentralisation on green
Xuegang Zhan +7 more
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Is a Decentralised Health Policy Associated With Better Self-rated Health and Health Services Evaluation? A Comparative Study of European Countries [PDF]
Background While decentralisation has come to be a major policy strategy in many healthcare systems, there is still insufficient evidence about its impact. Most studies have been of developing countries, and they have provided mixed results.
Pål E. Martinussen, Håvard T. Rydland
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Fiscal Decentralisation and Inequality in Indonesia [PDF]
The study examined the effect of fiscal decentralisation on both vertical and horizontal inequality in 32 provinces of Indonesia in the period from 2005 to 2014 using several fixed effects (FE) estimations. Moreover, we assessed the mediating role of
Kumba Digdowiseiso +2 more
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Decentralisation, Decision Space and Directions for Future Research; Comment on “Decentralisation of Health Services in Fiji: A Decision Space Analysis” [PDF]
Decentralisation continues to re-appear in health system reform across the world. Evaluation of these reforms reveals how research on decentralisation continues to evolve.
Maryam Zahmatkesh, Mark Exworthy
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Against the background of globalisation and state rescaling, promoting decentralisation and enhancing local governance capacity have become prioritised objectives of transnational city-to-city partnerships mainly between developed and developing ...
Jili Xu, Huaikuan Liu, Gengzhi Huang
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