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

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 imple...

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Main Authors: Sudha Ramani, Lucy Gilson, Muthusamy Sivakami, Nilesh Gawde
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Kerman University of Medical Sciences 2021-07-01
Series:International Journal of Health Policy and Management
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Online Access:https://www.ijhpm.com/article_3942_8fbeebac93696212afcd432c2d352c29.pdf