Hospital governance and incentive design : the case of corporatized public hospitals in Lebanon

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Hospital governance and incentive design : the case of corporatized public hospitals in Lebanon, Volume 1

Author:	Eid, Florence;	Collection Title:	Policy, Research working paper series ; no. WPS 2727
Country:	Lebanon;	Date Stored:	2002/01/17
Document Date:	2001/11/30	Document Type:	Policy Research Working Paper
Language:	English	Major Sector:	(Historic)Health, Nutrition & Population
Region:	Middle East and North Africa	Report Number:	WPS2727
Sub Sectors:	Hospitals, Secondary & Tertiary	SubTopics:	Pharmaceuticals & Pharmacoeconomics; National Governance; Banks & Banking Reform; Health Systems Development & Reform; Health Monitoring & Evaluation; Labor Policies; Public Health Promotion; Decentralization
Volume No:	1

Summary: There are three potential levels of government activity in the health sector: regulation, finance, and direct provision of services, with the government owning and managing hospitals and primary care clinics. Eid focuses on service provision. In recent years corporatization has been introduced as an institutional design for public hospitals-as a means of improving efficiency and reducing transfers in a publicly owned, decentralized health system. Eid treats decentralization as a reallocation of decision rights to lower levels of the public sector. She shows how such a strategy creates new needs for monitoring and control of decentralized units. To improve the understanding of the role of governance and incentives in corporatized hospitals, Eid explores the design of corporate boards of public hospitals, the institutional linchpin of such systems. She shows how principal-agent theory, particularly the multitasking and common agency approaches, can provide a useful analytical lens in understanding hospital board design in the case of Lebanon. She also shows the implications of corporatization for health policy and management.


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