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Introducing vouchers for malaria prevention in Ghana and Tanzania: context and adoption of innovation in health systems

de Savigny, Don ; Webster, Jayne ; Agyepong, Irene Akua ; Mwita, Alex ; Bart-Plange, Constance ; Baffoe-Wilmot, Aba ; Koenker, Hannah ; Kramer, Karen ; Brown, Nick ; Lengeler, Christian

In: Health Policy and Planning, 2012, vol. 27, p. iv32-iv43

Education and training, knowledge production, and colonial difference. A perspective from inside Europe

Forster, Edgar

In: Postcolonial Directions in Education

Colonialism has ended, but the structure of colonial power persists, and education is a key vehicle for the colonization of the mind. Following the research of the Latin America collective project modernidad/ colonialidad, this paper analyzes the continuous reproduction of colonial power in European programs on education and training as well as in the production of educational knowledge. The...

Leadership and governance in seven developed health systems

Smith, Peter C. ; Anell, Anders ; Busse, Reinhard ; Crivelli, Luca ; Healy, Judith ; Lindahl, Anne Karin ; Westert, Gert ; Kene, Tobechukwu

In: Health policy, 2012, vol. 106, no. 1, p. 37-49

This paper explores leadership and governance arrangements in seven developed health systems: Australia, England, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland. It presents a cybernetic model of leadership and governance comprising three fundamental functions: priority setting, performance monitoring and accountability arrangements. The paper uses a structured survey to examine...