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100			_aKolehmainen-Aitken, Riitta-Liisa
245			_aThe impact of decentralization on health workforce development in Papua New Guinea
520			_aPapua New Guinea decentralized a wide range of health functions to provincial governments between 1977 and 1983. The national Department of Health (DOH) was given no role in provincial budget and staffing decisions, and the national health budget was fragmented into the health components of provincial budgets. The impact of decentralization on health work-force development was particularly severe and largely unforeseen. Many difficulties were inherent in the manner in which dencentralization regulations structured power relationships. Others arose as a result of the administrative confusion and inflamed relationships that accompanied the forceful transfer of power from a very reluctant national DOH to the p
650			_aDecentralisation - Papua New Guinea
773			_aPublic Administration and Development
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