Financing decentralization

Effects of health decentralization, financing and governance in Mexico.

OBJECTIVE To identify the effects of decentralization on health financing and governance policies in Mexico from the perspective of users and providers. METHODS A cross-sectional study was carried out in four states that were selected according to geopolitical and administrative criteria. Four indicators were assessed: changes and effects on governance, financing sources and funds, the final ...

[Impact of decentralization on health financing in Mexico].

OBJECTIVE To identify trends and to describe the impact of health care decentralization on health financing policies in Mexico. METHODS The study population comprised four states selected according with six technical criteria: socioeconomic development, implementation of decentralization process, database on economical features, data consistency and reliability, and technical support from a m...

Healthcare financing, decentralization and regional health planning: federal transfers and the healthcare networks in Minas Gerais, Brazil.

The Decrees 4279/10 and 7508/11 established norms to guide health politics, with impacts on funding of the Middle and High Complexity Hospital and Outpatient. To verify the effects on the consolidation of care networks in Minas Gerais, we performed an analytical-descriptive study of the National Health Fund from 2006 to 2014. We observed decentralization of responsibilities, accompanied of reso...

Madagascar Decentralization

Political Decentralization

I provide a critical overview of the literature on political decentralization. After reviewing firstand second-generation theories of federalism, I describe recent empirical studies focusing mainly on determinants of capture and local government accountability emphasized by second-generation theories. The article concludes by describing emerging new issues that deserve more attention in future ...