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  • Health policy analysis
  • Healthcare management
  • Discourse analysis in public policy

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  • Activity Based Funding (ABF) has been a prevalent hospital funding and governance model for decades.
  • Growing frustration exists regarding ABF's unintended consequences and a lack of understanding of alternative models' origins.
  • Need for in-depth analysis of how policy debates translate into concrete alternative healthcare governance structures.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To analyze the discursive mechanisms through which Activity Based Funding was successfully challenged.
  • To provide insights into the translation of international/national debates into alternative healthcare funding and governance models.
  • To understand the process of developing and implementing 'New Governance' in Denmark.

Main Methods:

  • Employed a discursive policy analysis approach.
  • Conducted a case study of Denmark's 'New Governance' initiative.
  • Utilized qualitative data from project/policy documents and interviews with regional/national experts.

Main Results:

  • Identified four key discursive mechanisms: clear problem definitions, nuanced assumptions (accepting/challenging ABF premises), broadly defined alternatives, and integrated regional/national dissemination.
  • 'New Governance' in Denmark utilized these mechanisms to challenge existing ABF frameworks.
  • Alternative models require careful engineering and integration of diverse governance logics.

Conclusions:

  • Successful challenges to established funding models like ABF rely on strategic discursive mechanisms.
  • Emerging hospital funding and governance models necessitate a blend of governance logics and careful design.
  • Further research across diverse contexts and timeframes is crucial for understanding policy evolution.