Abstract
In recent years ‘social enterprises’ have become important partners in the delivery of key public services such as healthcare. However, little is known about how healthcare social enterprises contribute to public service provision in the health sector. We analyzed 172 social enterprises from four continents involved in healthcare to assess the types of interventions, processes, and roles they play responding to rapidly evolving healthcare systems. We found that they are engaged broadly in three dimensions of health service provision: improving access to health services; improving the quality of health services; and building public health capacity. We contribute to social policy theory by enhancing understanding of the micro-level interventions of social enterprises in the healthcare sector and articulating new dimensions of NPG that include co-innovation, co-lobbying, and co-integration in the context of healthcare.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 834-855 |
| Number of pages | 22 |
| Journal | Journal of Social Policy |
| Volume | 51 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| Early online date | 23 Mar 2021 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Oct 2022 |
Keywords
- social enterprise
- healthcare
- health
- intervention
- new public governance
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
- Social Sciences (miscellaneous)
- Public Administration
Documents and Links
- Chandra, Y. et al (2021) Understanding healthcare social enterprises a new public governance perspective
This article has been published in a revised form in Journal of Social Policy, http://doi.org/10.1017/S0047279421000222. This version is published under a Creative Commons CC-BY-NC-ND. No commercial re-distribution or re-use allowed. Derivative works cannot be distributed. © The Author(s) 2021.