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To examine historical shifts in health care decision-making authority from professional and government control toward consumer-driven decentralized governance.

December 1, 1986Journal of Health Politics Policy and Law

The Changing Locus of Decision Making in the Health Care Sector

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CHClark C. HavighurstUniversity of Iowa

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Policy analysis reveals a shift toward decentralized consumer decision-making across health systems, highlighting the decline of centralized regulatory and professional control.

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To examine historical shifts in health care decision-making authority from professional and government control toward consumer-driven decentralized governance.
Conceptual and historical policy analysis of health care governance and decision-making structures from the 1970s onward.
Evaluation of institutional dynamics underlying the competition-versus-regulation debate, market diversification, and consumer agency.
Decision-making authority in the health care sector is actively decentralizing away from traditional government and medical profession control to consumers and their agents.
Emerging market competition and expanding consumer choice drive simultaneous deprofessionalization and depoliticization of health sector decisions.
Systemic diversification creates new mechanisms for translating heterogeneous consumer preferences directly into improved provider performance.

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Clark C. Havighurst (1986) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a7619624b4bbb4785fbdb9e https://doi.org/10.1215/03616878-11-4-697

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Policy analysis reveals a shift toward decentralized consumer decision-making across health systems, highlighting the decline of centralized regulatory and professional control.

The Changing Locus of Decision Making in the Health Care Sector

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The Changing Locus of Decision Making in the Health Care Sector

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