Sometimes Resigned, Sometimes Conflicted, and Mostly Risk Averse: Primary Care Doctors in India as Street Level Bureaucrats

• Autori principali: Sudha Ramani (Autore), Lucy Gilson (Autore), Muthusamy Sivakami (Autore), Nilesh Gawde (Autore)
• Natura: Libro
• Pubblicazione: Kerman University of Medical Sciences, 2021-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Soggetti: article
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BackgroundIn this study, we use the case of medical doctors in the public health system in rural India to illustrate the nuances of how and why gaps in policy implementation occur at the frontline. Drawing on Lipsky's Street Level Bureaucracy (SLB) theory, we consider doctors not as mechanical...