Journal of Health Organization and Management: Volume 22 Issue 4

The end of the decentralised model of healthcare governance?: Comparing developments in the Scandinavian hospital sectors

Haldor Byrkjeflot, Simon Neby

This paper aims to discuss recent contributions to comparative healthcare systems research, which emphasise decentralisation as a major characteristic of Scandinavian hospital…

Institutions and non‐linear change in governance: Reforming the governance of medical performance in Europe

Viola Burau, Karsten Vrangbæk

The paper aims to account for the substance of non‐linear governance change by analysing the importance of sector‐specific institutions and the pathways of governing they create.

Deciding subsidy for pharmaceuticals based on ambiguous evidence

Ebba Sjögren

The purpose of the paper is to inquire into how decisions about public fiscal responsibility for pharmaceutical spending are made and justified when there is a lack of coherent…

Expansive or limitative strategy? A case study of organisational responses to new public health

Annegrete Juul Nielsen, Morten Knudsen, Katrine Finke

Since the emergence of new public health in the 1970s, health has not merely been considered the absence of disease, but physical, mental and social wellbeing. This article seeks…

Doctors as managers: moving towards general management?: The case of unitary management reform in Norwegian hospitals

Tone Opdahl Mo

The paper seeks to explore whether the development in department management in Norwegian hospitals after the unitary management reform in 2001 constitutes a development in the…

Shared care and boundaries: lessons from an online maternity record

Brit Ross Winthereik

The paper seeks to examine how an online maternity record involving pregnant women worked as a means to create shared maternity care.

Redrawing boundaries within healthcare: Scandinavian experience

Signe Vikkelso, Peter Kjaer