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Understanding Healthcare Social Enterprises: A New Public Governance Perspective

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2021

YANTO CHANDRA Open the ORCID record for YANTO CHANDRA [Opens in a new window] ,
LIANG SHANG Open the ORCID record for LIANG SHANG [Opens in a new window]  and
MICHAEL J. ROY Open the ORCID record for MICHAEL J. ROY [Opens in a new window]
YANTO CHANDRA
Affiliation:
Department of Applied Social Sciences, Center for Social Policy and Social Entrepreneurship, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Kowloon, Hong Kong email: yanto.chandra@polyu.edu.hk
LIANG SHANG
Affiliation:
Department of Social Work, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong email: dj2echo@gmail.com
MICHAEL J. ROY
Affiliation:
Yunus Centre for Social Business and Health, Glasgow Caledonian University, Glasgow, United Kingdom email: Michael. Roy@gcu.ac.uk
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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.

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social enterprisehealthcarehealthinterventionNew Public Governance
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Journal of Social Policy , Volume 51 , Issue 4 , October 2022 , pp. 834 - 855
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© The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press

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