mohammed, north, and ashton find that decentralization in fiji shifted health-sector workloads from tertiary hospitals to peripheral health centres, but with little transfer of administrative authority from the centre. decisionmaking in five functional areas analysed remains highly centralized. they surmise that the benefits of decentralization in terms of services and outcomes will be limited....

after a relatively long period of centralization and with the beginning of decentralization experiences since 1970s, the periodical orientations and trends of governments towards both centralization and decentralization systems appeared. stemming generally from political and economic domains, decentralization entered curriculum and education system from these domains. problems such as deficienc...

Mohammed, North, and Ashton find that decentralization in Fiji shifted health-sector workloads from tertiary hospitals to peripheral health centres, but with little transfer of administrative authority from the centre. Decisionmaking in five functional areas analysed remains highly centralized. They surmise that the benefits of decentralization in terms of services and outcomes will be limited....

Decentralization occupies an important space in debates over public-sector reform in doi moi Vietnam. This paper assesses the changing distribution of roles, responsibilities and resources across levels of government over the past decade. Vietnam is incrementally transfering greater administrative and fiscal responsibilities to the provincial level. In addition, the Communist Party is attemptin...

BACKGROUND Data aggregation in national information systems begins at the district level. Decentralization has given districts a lead role in health planning and management, therefore validity of administrative-based estimates at that level is important to improve the performance of immunization information systems. OBJECTIVE To assess the validity of administrative-based immunization estimat...

Short title: Validation of Administrative Data for Endoscopy Xue Li 1 MPH, Robert Hilsden 2 MD, Shakhawat Hossain 3* Ph.D., John Fleming 1 B.Sc., and Marcy Winget 1,3 Ph.D. 1. Division of Community Oncology, Cancer Care, Alberta Health Services, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada 2. Department of Community Health Sciences and Department of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary Alberta Canada 3. Depar...