Implementing public competition in Swedish county councils: a case study.
Earlier presentations of the theoretical framework for public competition (Saltman and von Otter, 1987) and of the comparative advantage of public competition as against a mixed market model (Saltman and von Otter, 1989a) suggest the importance of concrete arrangements to introduce a public competition approach at the operating level. This paper explores the administrative infra-structure required to implement public competition within the Swedish county-council-based health care system.
Saltman
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University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
von Otter
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D002017:Budgets; D004465:Economic Competition; D004467:Economics; D005377:Financial Management, Hospital; D006286:Health Planning Councils / Q000191:economics*; D006288:Health Planning Organizations / Q000191:economics*; D010821:Physicians, Family; D011320:Primary Health Care / Q000191:economics; D013548:Sweden