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Reforms bring out the best or worst

16 February 2022

Tim Tenbensel

Wednesday 16 February 2022, 01:55 AM

International research shows that health reform is a hard slog and many objectives are at best only partially achieved [Greg Rosenke on Unsplash]

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Habits could well disempower the 2022 reforms or, alternatively, COVID-19 disruption will prepare people for change, writes Tim Tenbensel

As with the QWERTY keyboard, the origins of powerful institutional logics are often random or accidental It is shaping up to be one hell of a yea

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References

1. Okma K, Tenbensel T (Eds). Health Reforms Across the World. The Experience of Twelve Small and Medium-sized Nations with Changing Their Healthcare Systems. World Scientific; 2020.

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