Italy's national health service is statutorily required to guarantee the uniform provision of
comprehensive care throughout the country. However, this is complicated by the fact that …

This article surveys historical writing on the British National Health Service since its
inception in 1948. Its main focus is on policy-making and organisation and its principal …

This study presents a broad overview of health-system reforms in OECD countries over the
past several decades. Reforms are assessed according to their impact on the following …

Organizations are being urged to experiment with new structures and processes. A'process
perspective'on organizing is emerging as a major challenge to'functional'principles of …

This paper examines the commercialization of an alternative youth subculture. Sociologists
have typically focused on the ways that authorities have attempted to repress and censor …

The main goal of this paper is to review the strategies developed across European health
care systems during the 1990s to improve coordination among health care providers. A …

1 Introduction about improvements in some or all of the specialist and referred health
services used by their patients. Primary care-led commissioning was also seen as a way of …

Background This paper reviews evidence on equity as a policy goal of resource allocation in
the English NHS, focussing on the role of clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) as …

The French health care system embraced New Public Management (NPM) selectively, and
crafted their own version of NPM using Diagnostic-Related-Group accounting to re …

Whoever wins the next election, years of famine are upon us. Budgetary belts are tightening
in anticipation. All the more disquiet therefore attaches to a report from consultants Caspe …