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- Title
Local Governments and Health Services: How Can They Be Reconciled?
- Authors
Kettunen, Pekka
- Abstract
The article discusses the concepts of centralisation and decentralisation in theoiy. There are various criteria that can be used to assess the advantages and disadvantages of decentralisation, and the paper will discuss these. In addition, empirical examples are presented. Next the article moves on to a case study of Finland. Finland has strong municipalites in the comparative European aspect, but there are problems, too. There are plenty of small municipalities which cannot carry all the responsibility by themselves; hence the national government would like to see more amalgamations. The final section discusses in more general terms how local autonomy can be combined with coordination, and which new options there are.
- Subjects
HEALTH services administration; DECENTRALIZATION of public health administration; FINNISH politics &; government; MANAGEMENT
- Publication
Croatian & Comparative Public Administration, 2016, Vol 16, Issue 4, p773
- ISSN
1848-0357
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.31297/hkju.16.4.5