Framing the decision to contract out elderly care and primary health care services – perspectives of local level politicians and civil servants in Finland

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>In the literature there are only few empirical studies that analyse the decision makers’ reasoning to contract out health care and social services to private sector. However, the decisions on the delivery patterns of health care and...

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Main Authors: Tynkkynen Liina-Kaisa, Lehto Juhani, Miettinen Sari
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2012-07-01
Series:BMC Health Services Research
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6963/12/201