Beyond “financial incentives”: how stakeholders interpret Ontario's funding structure for midwifery

Abstract: The 1994 introduction of midwifery as a publicly paid service in Ontario created new incentives in the health‐care system. Traditional economic models of financial incentives explain stakeholder responses in terms of the pursuit of financial gains and avoidance of financial losses. To explore and explain more social and political responses by stakeholders, we conducted a qualitative case study. We applied an alternative model of …