Practicing governance towards equity in health systems: LMIC perspectives and experience

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dc.contributor.authorGilson, Lucy
dc.contributor.authorLehmann, Uta
dc.contributor.authorSchneider, Helen
dc.date.accessioned2018-09-05T08:20:38Z
dc.date.available2018-09-05T08:20:38Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.description.abstractThe unifying theme of the papers in this series is a concern for understanding the everyday practice of governance in low- and middle-income country (LMIC) health systems. Rather than seeing governance as a normative health system goal addressed through the architecture and design of accountability and regulatory frameworks, these papers provide insights into the real-world decision-making of health policy and system actors. Their multiple, routine decisions translate policy intentions into practice – and are filtered through relationships, underpinned by values and norms, influenced by organizational structures and resources, and embedded in historical and socio-political contexts. These decisions are also political acts – in that they influence who accesses benefits and whose voices are heard in decisionmaking, reinforcing or challenging existing institutional exclusion and power inequalities. In other words, the everyday practice of governance has direct impacts on health system equity. The papers in the series address governance through diverse health policy and system issues, consider actors located at multiple levels of the system and draw on multi-disciplinary perspectives. They present detailed examination of experiences in a range of African and Indian settings, led by authors who live and work in these settings. The overall purpose of the papers in this series is thus to provide an empirical and embedded research perspective on governance and equity in health systems.en_US
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dc.identifier.citationGilson, L. et al. (2017). Practicing governance towards equity in health systems: LMIC perspectives and experience. International Journal for Equity in Health, 16: 171en_US
dc.identifier.issn1475-9276
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12939-017-0665-0
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10566/4020
dc.language.isoenen_US
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dc.publisherBMCen_US
dc.rights© The Author(s). 2017 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
dc.status.ispeerreviewedTRUE
dc.subjectGovernanceen_US
dc.subjectHealth systemsen_US
dc.subjectEquityen_US
dc.subjectEveryday practiceen_US
dc.titlePracticing governance towards equity in health systems: LMIC perspectives and experienceen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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