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Mitigating Health Disparities Through Empathetic Policymaking During Times of Crisis

Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The COVID‐19 pandemic greatly exacerbated the existing disparities and inequities in health and healthcare among historically marginalized populations. Today, these impacts still echo. These persistent structured inequities erode the public's trust in government, lead to failure in public policies, and result in worse health consequences ...
Yali Pang, Brittany Keegan, Robyn D. McDougle   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Market structure and hospital efficiency: Evaluating potential effects of deregulation in a national health service [PDF]

In this article we examine the potential effect of market structure on hospital technical efficiency as a measure of performance controlled by ownership and regulation.
Jaume Puig, Eulàlia Dalmau
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When Politics Shapes Administration: Bureaucratic Autonomy, Policy Role Separation, and Organizational Capacity in an Institutionally Weak Public Administration

Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the impact of administrative autonomy and the separation of roles in public policy on organizational capacity within hybrid public administration systems, particularly in Colombia. It explores the dynamics between elected officials and civil servants, focusing on how the division of responsibilities and the autonomy granted
Camilo Ignacio González, Pablo Sanabria‐Pulido   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Assessing Hospital Efficiency: Non-parametric Evidence for Portugal [PDF]

We compute DEA efficiency scores and Malmquist indexes for a panel data set comprising 68 Portuguese public hospitals belonging to the National Health System (NHS) in the period 2000-2005, when several units started being run in an entrepreneurial ...
António Afonso, Sónia Fernandes
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The Politics of Policy Robustness: A Central Paradox and Computational Review of Adaptive Policymaking

Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Policy robustness, that is, the capacity of policies to sustain performance across diverse and uncertain futures, is increasingly considered a core objective of public policymaking. Although adaptive policymaking is widely promoted as an approach to achieving policy robustness, it suffers from a central paradox highlighted by theories of the ...
Ola G. El‐Taliawi, Nihit Goyal
wiley   +1 more source

Correction: The cost of community outreach HIV interventions: a case study in Thailand. [PDF]

BMC Public Health
Soe KM, Hauck K, Jiamton S, Kongsin S.
europepmc   +1 more source

Estimation and Identification of Merger Effects: An Application to Hospital Mergers [PDF]

Advances in structural demand estimation have substantially improved economists' ability to forecast the impact of mergers. However, these models rely on extensive assumptions about consumer choice and firm objectives, and ultimately observational ...
Leemore S. Dafny
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Conceptualizing the Street‐Level Bureaucrat Construct

Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Differences among street‐level bureaucrats—across professions, institutional settings, regions, and countries—are largely overlooked in research. We propose conceptualizing the street‐level bureaucrat construct as a general variable that varies across institutional settings, professions, cultures, times, and locations. We analyze variations in
Faisal S. Cheema, Euipyo Lee, Rajneesh Gupta, James L. Perry   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Transformative Pathways for Strengthening Climate‐Resilient Health Systems Among Indigenous Communities: Advancing Equity and Sustainability in Global Health

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Most climate‐resilience health interventions are designed at the global level, with minimal attention to Indigenous communities' needs. The lack of consideration can lead to unintended harm and exacerbate health risks. This study aims to identify the capacities of Indigenous communities that can serve as transformative pathways in safely ...
Chrishma D. Perera, Eranga K. Galappaththi, Carol Zavaleta‐Cortijo, Timothy D. Baird, Korine N. Kolivras, James D. Ford, Michelle Dickson, Kerrie Pickering, Guangqing Chi, Joana Bezerra, Dhanya Vijayan, Victoria Chicamana‐Zapata, Cecil Togarepi, Kheminda G. Thilakarathne, Martha M. Hangula, Francis A. Akugre, Richard Nuwagira, Jonathan Nkalubo   +17 more
wiley   +1 more source

Procurement in German office based ambulatory physician practices: system specific challenges and evidence based management strategies. [PDF]

Health Econ Rev
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europepmc   +1 more source