Outputs (2)

Explanatory models of influences on the construction and expression of user satisfaction (2009)
Journal Article
Atkinson, S., & Medeiros, R. (2009). Explanatory models of influences on the construction and expression of user satisfaction. Social Science & Medicine, 68(11), 2089-2096. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2009.03.042

The paper asks why high levels of expressed satisfaction are recorded in settings where health care provision is manifestly inadequate. Qualitative interviews with 30 women aged 25–60 years from a rural district health system of Northeast Brazil were... Read More about Explanatory models of influences on the construction and expression of user satisfaction.

Health reform in Ceará: the process of decentralization in the 1990s. [A Reforma de Saúde no Ceará: o processo de descentralização na década de 1990] (2009)
Journal Article
Medeiros, R., & Atkinson, S. (2009). Health reform in Ceará: the process of decentralization in the 1990s. [A Reforma de Saúde no Ceará: o processo de descentralização na década de 1990]. O Público e o Privado (Impresso), 13, 11-27

The objective of this article is to offer an overview of the health reform in Ceará focusing on the decentralisation process in the 1990s. The driving factor behind the Brazilian health reform movement was the necessity to reorganise the national hea... Read More about Health reform in Ceará: the process of decentralization in the 1990s. [A Reforma de Saúde no Ceará: o processo de descentralização na década de 1990].