Table 2 |
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Collective reactions to the reforms in the 1990s |
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Country |
Workforce group |
Industrial action |
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Argentina |
Doctors |
Demonstrations over linkages between changes in payment structures and health care outputs |
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Canada (Alberta) |
Laundry personnel |
Budget cuts and administrative reorganization. Although strikes were forbidden, laundry personnel stopped activities and caused a setback of the policies. |
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Canada (Quebec) |
Doctors |
Freezing the fee for medical procedures in the process of reducing health budget. As a result, the number of available hours was reduced. |
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Chile |
Doctors |
Demonstrations over linkages between changes in payment structures and health care outputs |
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Dominican Republic |
Doctors |
Demonstrations over linkages between changes in payment structures and health care outputs |
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France |
Civil Service |
Proposal of changing public service status sparked strikes and demonstrations. |
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Junior Doctors (Residents) |
Introduction of managed care and personalized medical cards were resisted by a strike of junior doctors. |
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Germany |
Doctors and Nurses |
Opposition to the government's efforts to curb health expenditures. |
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Doctors |
Dispute with doctors about being accountable for prescription budgets. |
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Nurses |
Nursing organizations were concerned with deregulation of nursing workloads and the consequences in the quality of care. |
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Israel |
Nurses |
Strike over a dispute following decentralization of 500 family health stations to the municipalities without proper financing. |
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Romania |
Health personnel |
Strikes and demonstrations about discrepancies between wage rise and inflation |
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Russia |
Health personnel |
Local and national strikes about non-payment of wages. |
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South Africa |
Nurses |
Nurses went on strike for working conditions and representation in "umbrella" organizations. |
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Sweden |
Doctors Nurses |
Decentralized bargaining to counties followed by strikes of medical and nursing staff. |
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