Constructing reform in the Ethiopian healthcare system: unintended consequences for hospitals and patients

Thesis

In the last decade, the reach of New Public Management (NPM) has stretched well beyond its Western origins as modernising African governments and their global health partners have sought to import new approaches. Public health systems in Africa are entirely different to those of the West however, and this sort of application introduces a number of contextually-specific questions that are not considered by the majority of the NPM literature. The few studies that do investigate NPM in Africa...

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Authors: McKnight, J; Jacob McKnight

• Publication date: 2013
• Type of award: DPhil
• Level of award: Doctoral
• Awarding institution: Oxford University, UK
• Language: English
• Keywords: Marketing; Developing Countries; Consumption; New Public Management; Public Health
• Subjects: Marketing; Anthropology of policy; Organisational behaviour; Public Health