Robin Gauld
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3877486 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Robin Gauld |
| PRENOMES | Robin |
| SOBRENOME | Gauld |
| ASSINATURA | GAULD R |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 20 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 21 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 20 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1999 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
A multi-stakeholder perspective to improve the efficacy of management consulting practice in the New Zealand public health system
The global health sector is increasingly utilizing management consulting services to enhance performance. This study, based on strategy-as-practice perspective, examines the effectiveness of these services. Using a modified Delphi method, we gathered insights from 28 management consultants and 30 health organization managers. Results indicate that management consulting falls short in improving performance and building new capabilities in the heal…
Facilitators and barriers of public–private partnerships for universal health coverage in sub-Saharan Africa
Universal health coverage (UHC) provides a platform for attaining ‘Health for All’. Attaining UHC requires substantial investment and resources in the health sector. This can be challenging for many sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries. Public–private partnerships (PPPs) could be a potential solution. The implementation of healthcare PPPs for developing health system capacities for UHC presents both significant opportunities and notable challenges…
Opinion Paper
Transformative artificially intelligent tools, such as ChatGPT, designed to generate sophisticated text indistinguishable from that produced by a human, are applicable across a wide range of contexts. The technology presents opportunities as well as, often ethical and legal, challenges, and has the potential for both positive and negative impacts for organisations, society, and individuals. Offering multi-disciplinary insight into some of these, …
A review of public policies on Covid-19
Purpose This article reviews New Zealand's journey through managing Covid-19. It provides a chronological overview of key developments. The article analyses the impacts of Covid-19 on business and society and offers lessons for others from the New Zealand case. Design/methodology/approach The article draws on various sources, primarily media pieces and government information. It also critically analyses and interprets the New Zealand response. Fi…
Why is Quality Improvement so Challenging? A Viable Systems Model Perspective to Understand the Frustrations of Healthcare Quality Improvement Managers
Citizen's Charter in a primary health‐care setting of Nepal
BACKGROUND: Despite some empirical findings on the usefulness of citizen's charters on awareness of rights and services, there is a dearth of literature about charter implementation and impact on health service delivery in low-income settings. OBJECTIVE: To gauge the level of awareness of the Charter within Nepal's primary health-care (PHC) system, perceived impact and factors affecting Charter implementation. METHOD: Using a case study design, a…
Rethinking health workforce planning
Networks for care
Introduction: Providing sustainable high quality healthcare to rural communities is challenging, due to health workforce shortages, and the complexities of providing health care over distance.What do people who live in rural New Zealand communities think contributes to health care quality when they require hospital level care? What do those who plan and provide their health care think? What do they see as the right balance between local and regio…
Social inclusion through ageing-in-place with care
The onset of ill-health and frailty in later life, within the context of the policy of ageing-in-place, is increasingly being responded to through the provision of home care. In the philosophy of ageing-in-place, the home provides for continuity of living environment, maintenance of independence in the community and social inclusion. The provision of assistance to remain at home assumes continuity in the living environment and independence in the…
Information and communications technology use, e-government, pain and stress amongst public servants
This paper examines information and communications technologies use, work intensity, technology preference, respondent characteristics, pain and stress in 240 New Zealand public servants across six agencies. In particular, we find that four variables are the most consistent predictors of pain—hours using a cell phone, stress, female gender and one's salary
The Age of Supported Independence
Are elected health boards an effective mechanism for public participation in health service governance
Background There is growing interest in the idea of elected members on health service governing boards as a means to induce public participation in planning and decision making, yet studies of elected boards are limited. Whether elected boards are an effective mechanism for public participation remains unclear. Setting and participants This article discusses the experiences of New Zealand where, since 2001, there have been three sets of elections…
Principal-Agent Theory and Organisational Change
Principal-agent theory has provided a powerful and all-encompassing framework for public sector organisation. Its influence in New Zealand since the late-1980s has been particularly strong, despite questions over its appropriateness. This article discusses the case of health information management in New Zealand's health sector which, through the 1990s, endured several policy changes. One constant during this period was reliance on principal-agen…
Do Hospital Bed Reduction and Multiple System Reform Affect Patient Mortality
BACKGROUND: The impact of hospital and system restructuring on the quality and pattern of care is an important issue of public policy concern. OBJECTIVE: To assess the effect on patterns of care and patient outcomes of a substantial reduction in public hospital bed availability and multiple reorganizations in New Zealand through the 1990s. RESEARCH DESIGN: Trend analysis using both tabular and multilevel techniques. SUBJECTS: Access to discharge …
Politics and policymaking
Community participation in a rural community health trust
Since the mid-1980s, the New Zealand health sector has been in a state of continual change. The most radical changes were in the early-1990s, with the creation of an internal market system for public health care delivery. Rural health services, seen to be unviable, were given the option of establishing themselves as 'community trusts', owning and running their own services. Community trusts have since become a feature of rural health care in New …
One Country, Four Systems
There is a growing literature in comparative health policy that analyzes the experiences of different countries. This article draws upon the comparative tradition, but has an intra-country focus. It considers the case of New Zealand, which has had four different public health sector structures in a decade, with fundamental changes enacted following general elections in 1990, 1996 and 1999. New Zealand's structures have included a system of locall…
The politics of social inequality
Contextual Pressures on Health—Implications for Policy Making and Service Provision
This article posits that health is one of the more difcult areas of public policy making and service provision, owing to a variety of circumstantial and contextual issues. It suggests that advance-ments in medical practice and organization are not simplifying health policy; along with the changing context of health, they are complicating the processes of policy making and provision. The article discusses a number of trends and emerging issues in …
Beyond New Zealand's Dual Health Reforms
The New Zealand health system was substantially reformed in 1993 with the introduction of a purchaser–provider split, competitive contracting and managerialism. The new system failed to deliver the desired gains and, in 1996, the reforms were “reformed”. While there has been widespread study of the 1993 reforms, there has been little discussion to date of the 1996 changes and the emerging directions for New Zealand health policy and service deliv…
Social inclusion through ageing-in-place with care
The onset of ill-health and frailty in later life, within the context of the policy of ageing-in-place, is increasingly being responded to through the provision of home care. In the philosophy of ageing-in-place, the home provides for continuity of living environment, maintenance of independence in the community and social inclusion. The provision of assistance to remain at home assumes continuity in the living environment and independence in the…
One Country, Four Systems
There is a growing literature in comparative health policy that analyzes the experiences of different countries. This article draws upon the comparative tradition, but has an intra-country focus. It considers the case of New Zealand, which has had four different public health sector structures in a decade, with fundamental changes enacted following general elections in 1990, 1996 and 1999. New Zealand's structures have included a system of locall…
Rethinking health workforce planning
Information and communications technology use, e-government, pain and stress amongst public servants
This paper examines information and communications technologies use, work intensity, technology preference, respondent characteristics, pain and stress in 240 New Zealand public servants across six agencies. In particular, we find that four variables are the most consistent predictors of pain—hours using a cell phone, stress, female gender and one's salary
Beyond New Zealand's Dual Health Reforms
The New Zealand health system was substantially reformed in 1993 with the introduction of a purchaser–provider split, competitive contracting and managerialism. The new system failed to deliver the desired gains and, in 1996, the reforms were “reformed”. While there has been widespread study of the 1993 reforms, there has been little discussion to date of the 1996 changes and the emerging directions for New Zealand health policy and service deliv…
Contextual Pressures on Health—Implications for Policy Making and Service Provision
This article posits that health is one of the more difcult areas of public policy making and service provision, owing to a variety of circumstantial and contextual issues. It suggests that advance-ments in medical practice and organization are not simplifying health policy; along with the changing context of health, they are complicating the processes of policy making and provision. The article discusses a number of trends and emerging issues in …
Community participation in a rural community health trust
Since the mid-1980s, the New Zealand health sector has been in a state of continual change. The most radical changes were in the early-1990s, with the creation of an internal market system for public health care delivery. Rural health services, seen to be unviable, were given the option of establishing themselves as 'community trusts', owning and running their own services. Community trusts have since become a feature of rural health care in New …
One Country, Four Systems
There is a growing literature in comparative health policy that analyzes the experiences of different countries. This article draws upon the comparative tradition, but has an intra-country focus. It considers the case of New Zealand, which has had four different public health sector structures in a decade, with fundamental changes enacted following general elections in 1990, 1996 and 1999. New Zealand's structures have included a system of locall…
The politics of social inequality
Politics and policymaking
Principal-Agent Theory and Organisational Change
Principal-agent theory has provided a powerful and all-encompassing framework for public sector organisation. Its influence in New Zealand since the late-1980s has been particularly strong, despite questions over its appropriateness. This article discusses the case of health information management in New Zealand's health sector which, through the 1990s, endured several policy changes. One constant during this period was reliance on principal-agen…
Do Hospital Bed Reduction and Multiple System Reform Affect Patient Mortality
BACKGROUND: The impact of hospital and system restructuring on the quality and pattern of care is an important issue of public policy concern. OBJECTIVE: To assess the effect on patterns of care and patient outcomes of a substantial reduction in public hospital bed availability and multiple reorganizations in New Zealand through the 1990s. RESEARCH DESIGN: Trend analysis using both tabular and multilevel techniques. SUBJECTS: Access to discharge …
The Age of Supported Independence
Are elected health boards an effective mechanism for public participation in health service governance
Background There is growing interest in the idea of elected members on health service governing boards as a means to induce public participation in planning and decision making, yet studies of elected boards are limited. Whether elected boards are an effective mechanism for public participation remains unclear. Setting and participants This article discusses the experiences of New Zealand where, since 2001, there have been three sets of elections…
Information and communications technology use, e-government, pain and stress amongst public servants
This paper examines information and communications technologies use, work intensity, technology preference, respondent characteristics, pain and stress in 240 New Zealand public servants across six agencies. In particular, we find that four variables are the most consistent predictors of pain—hours using a cell phone, stress, female gender and one's salary
Social inclusion through ageing-in-place with care
The onset of ill-health and frailty in later life, within the context of the policy of ageing-in-place, is increasingly being responded to through the provision of home care. In the philosophy of ageing-in-place, the home provides for continuity of living environment, maintenance of independence in the community and social inclusion. The provision of assistance to remain at home assumes continuity in the living environment and independence in the…
Networks for care
Introduction: Providing sustainable high quality healthcare to rural communities is challenging, due to health workforce shortages, and the complexities of providing health care over distance.What do people who live in rural New Zealand communities think contributes to health care quality when they require hospital level care? What do those who plan and provide their health care think? What do they see as the right balance between local and regio…
Citizen's Charter in a primary health‐care setting of Nepal
BACKGROUND: Despite some empirical findings on the usefulness of citizen's charters on awareness of rights and services, there is a dearth of literature about charter implementation and impact on health service delivery in low-income settings. OBJECTIVE: To gauge the level of awareness of the Charter within Nepal's primary health-care (PHC) system, perceived impact and factors affecting Charter implementation. METHOD: Using a case study design, a…
Rethinking health workforce planning
Why is Quality Improvement so Challenging? A Viable Systems Model Perspective to Understand the Frustrations of Healthcare Quality Improvement Managers
Opinion Paper
Transformative artificially intelligent tools, such as ChatGPT, designed to generate sophisticated text indistinguishable from that produced by a human, are applicable across a wide range of contexts. The technology presents opportunities as well as, often ethical and legal, challenges, and has the potential for both positive and negative impacts for organisations, society, and individuals. Offering multi-disciplinary insight into some of these, …
A review of public policies on Covid-19
Purpose This article reviews New Zealand's journey through managing Covid-19. It provides a chronological overview of key developments. The article analyses the impacts of Covid-19 on business and society and offers lessons for others from the New Zealand case. Design/methodology/approach The article draws on various sources, primarily media pieces and government information. It also critically analyses and interprets the New Zealand response. Fi…
A multi-stakeholder perspective to improve the efficacy of management consulting practice in the New Zealand public health system
The global health sector is increasingly utilizing management consulting services to enhance performance. This study, based on strategy-as-practice perspective, examines the effectiveness of these services. Using a modified Delphi method, we gathered insights from 28 management consultants and 30 health organization managers. Results indicate that management consulting falls short in improving performance and building new capabilities in the heal…
Facilitators and barriers of public–private partnerships for universal health coverage in sub-Saharan Africa
Universal health coverage (UHC) provides a platform for attaining ‘Health for All’. Attaining UHC requires substantial investment and resources in the health sector. This can be challenging for many sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries. Public–private partnerships (PPPs) could be a potential solution. The implementation of healthcare PPPs for developing health system capacities for UHC presents both significant opportunities and notable challenges…
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