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Health Systems and Decentralization

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Health systems are comprised of many programmes, functions and interventions tailored to improve people’s health. All health systems share certain common features, such as the ways they are organised and financed and deliver services. Providing better health systems means maintaining people’s good health, fairness of financial contribution and delivering responsive health-care services to those who need them. This chapter provides a global overview of health systems with an emphasis on decentralised systems in low- and middle-income countries. Examples from different country systems and circumstances are discussed to provide a real context and draw attention to variations in system configuration.

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  2. Department of Clinical Education and Leadership, Faculty of Health & Social Sciences - Institute for Health Research, University of Bedfordshire, Putteridge Bury Campus, Room 32, Luton, LU2 8LE, UK

    Krishna Regmi

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Tobi, P., Regmi, K. (2014). Health Systems and Decentralization. In: Regmi, K. (eds) Decentralizing Health Services. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-9071-5_2

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