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National hospital development, 1948-2000: The WHO as an international propagator

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This study investigates the role of hospitals in the interrelation between the World Health Organization (WHO) and Anglo-Saxon health initiatives prior to and during the New Public Management wave. The analysis is undertaken according to a discursive, governmentality framework. The results find that remarkable linkages exist between the WHO and Anglo-Saxon health initiatives; the WHO acts as a propagator, drawing Anglo-Saxon national health-reform initiatives into international guidelines of health-care set-ups mobilised through an increasing accounting discourse. Following their post-war nationalisation, hospitals have come to play a dominant role in the set-up of governmental health infrastructure, and are formed by political and legal reform initiatives mobilised through calculative practices.

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  • Margit Malmmose, 2015. "National hospital development, 1948-2000: The WHO as an international propagator," Accounting History Review, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 25(3), pages 239-259, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:acbsfi:v:25:y:2015:i:3:p:239-259
    DOI: 10.1080/21552851.2015.1094194
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    1. Malmmose, Margit & Kure, Nikolaj, 2021. "Putting the patient first? The story of a decoupled hospital management quality initiative," CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON ACCOUNTING, Elsevier, vol. 80(C).

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