Changing Policies and their Influence on Government Health Workers in Tanzania 1967-2009: Perspectives from Rural Mbulu District”, The International Journal of African Historical Studies

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dc.creatorLawi, Yusufu Q.
dc.creatorBech, M.
dc.creatorRekdal, O.
dc.creatorMassay, D.
dc.date2016-03-17T10:33:15Z
dc.date2016-03-17T10:33:15Z
dc.date2013
dc.date.accessioned2018-04-18T11:50:18Z
dc.date.available2018-04-18T11:50:18Z
dc.descriptionTanzania has experienced fundamental policy shifts during the last fifty years. This included experimentation with reforms based on socialism and neoliberalism, and involved powerful actors. Public health services have been one of the main targets for policy and structural reforms, and personnel at the local level have had to cope with new measures under changing regimes. This article explores the public health services in Tanzania mainland from 1967 to 2009 from a health worker perspective. How did shifting policies influence government health workers in their daily work, and how did they perceive and respond to the policies? Oral narratives were collected mainly in rural Mbulu District, north central Tanzania. We argue that top-down experiments undertaken by development experts and politicians on the national and global arena during the socialist period (1967-1985) and the neoliberalist period (1986 to the present) had both intended and unintended outcomes. The experiences of the government health workers in this study provide a historical background to understand some of the present challenges in the public health sector in Tanzania
dc.identifierBech, M.M., Lawi, Y.Q., Massay, D.A. and Rekdal, O.B., 2013. Changing Policies and Their Influence on Government Health Workers in Tanzania, 1967-2009: Perspectives from Rural Mbulu District. The International Journal of African Historical Studies, 46(1), p.61.
dc.identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/1081
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/10777
dc.languageen
dc.publisherThe International Journal of African Historical Studies
dc.subjectPolicies
dc.subjectGovernment Health Workers
dc.subjectTanzania
dc.subject1967-2009
dc.subjectRural Mbulu District
dc.subjectPerspectives
dc.titleChanging Policies and their Influence on Government Health Workers in Tanzania 1967-2009: Perspectives from Rural Mbulu District”, The International Journal of African Historical Studies
dc.typeJournal Article

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