National hospital development, 1948-2000: The WHO as an international propagator

Margit Malmmose

Accounting History Review, 2015, vol. 25, issue 3, 239-259

Abstract: This study investigates the role of hospitals in the interrelation between the World Health Organization (WHO) and Anglo-Saxon health initiatives prior to and during the New Public Management wave. The analysis is undertaken according to a discursive, governmentality framework. The results find that remarkable linkages exist between the WHO and Anglo-Saxon health initiatives; the WHO acts as a propagator, drawing Anglo-Saxon national health-reform initiatives into international guidelines of health-care set-ups mobilised through an increasing accounting discourse. Following their post-war nationalisation, hospitals have come to play a dominant role in the set-up of governmental health infrastructure, and are formed by political and legal reform initiatives mobilised through calculative practices.

Date: 2015
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