Frameworks to assess health systems governance: a systematic review.

ABSTRACT: Governance of the health system is a relatively new concept and there are gaps in understanding what health system governance is and how it could be assessed. We conducted a systematic review of the literature to describe the concept of governance and the theories underpinning as applied to health systems; and to identify which frameworks are available and have been applied to assess health systems governance. Frameworks were reviewed to understand how the principles of governance might be operationalized at different levels of a health system. Electronic databases and web portals of international institutions concerned with governance were searched for publications in English for the period January 1994 to February 2016. Sixteen frameworks developed to assess governance in the health syst

SUBMITTER: Pyone T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5406767 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature