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- Title
Negotiating Compliance: The Case of Autonomous Hospitals in Vietnam.
- Authors
Lê, Gillian; Thu Thi Bui, Ha; Mirzoev, Tolib; Thanh Nguyen, Ha
- Abstract
Maternal death is one of the highest causes of global mortality. Governments have long used regulation to improve maternal health but concurrent fiscal-decentralisation reforms can undermine clinical performance. This article focuses on public Vietnamese hospitals to explore how regulatory compliance is pursued in decentralised health facilities, since Vietnam has seen increasing autonomisation of public hospitals in the last decade while simultaneously experiencing marked reductions in the maternal mortality ratio. Our analysis suggests that autonomisation has allowed regional regulatory regimes to emerge and that regulatory compliance must compete with other priorities. Compliance can therefore be rethought as a negotiation having implications for how government and maternal health advocates persuade self-sufficient hospitals to take on wider health-system goals.
- Subjects
VIETNAM; REGULATORY compliance; BUSINESS negotiation; HOSPITALS; MATERNAL health services; MATERNAL mortality
- Publication
Development Policy Review, 2015, Vol 33, Issue 3, p373
- ISSN
0950-6764
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/dpr.12112