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Micro data assessment of Russian drug benefit monetization
Galina BesstremyannayaThe drug benefit reform implemented in Russia in 2005 allowed benefit groups to choose between the fixed monetary compensation or the in‐kind benefits. This paper seeks to study…
Health care reform planners and wicked problems: Is the wickedness of the problems taken seriously or is it even noticed at all?
Harri RaisioThe purpose of this paper is to examine the planning of the National Health reform – especially the “guarantee for care” reform within it – from the perspective of the concept of…
Risky behaviour and patient safety: a critical culturist perspective
Philip Linsley, Russell MannionThis paper aims to utilise cultural theory of risk to provide a broad analytic framework for examining how risk is constructed within the dominant discourses around patient safety…
Organizational consciousness
Richard C. Pees, Glenda Hostetter Shoop, James T. ZiegenfussThe purpose of this paper is to develop a conceptual understanding of organizational consciousness that expands the discussion of organizational analysis, and use a case study to…
Authentic leadership: a new theory for nursing or back to basics?
Carol Wong, Greta CummingsAuthentic leadership is an emerging theoretical model purported to focus on the root component of effective leadership. The purpose of this paper is to describe the relevance of…
Green care governance: between market, policy and intersecting social worlds
Jostein Vik, Maja FarstadGreen care – the utilisation of farms as the basis for health services – is seen as a promising addition to other health services, and it is seen as a viable diversification…
Matching surgical operating capacity to demand using estimates of operating times
Sarah Westbury, Meghana Pandit, Jaideep J. PanditThis paper sets out to investigate whether demand for gynaecological theatre time could be described in terms of the time required to undertake elective operations booked for…
