Search for dissertations about: "Equitable Healthcare"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 17 swedish dissertations containing the words Equitable Healthcare.

2. 1. Managing care pathways for patients with complex care needs

   Author : Magdalena Smeds; Bozena Poksińska; Mattias Elg; Henrik Eriksson; Linköpings universitet; []
   Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Quality management; Care pathways; Complex care needs; Cancer care; Healthcare; Coordination; Standardization; Customization; Personalization; Timely; Equitable; Accessible; Patient-centred; Standardiserade vårdförlopp; SVF; Cancervård;

   Abstract : One of the central challenges for the healthcare system today is how to manage care for patients with complex needs. This patient group is not well-defined but covers patients with serious diseases and comorbidities, or with a limited ability to perform basic daily functions due to physical, mental or psychosocial challenges. READ MORE

4. 2. Organizing Language Interpreting Services in Elderly and Emergency Healthcare

   Author : Christina Lundin; Katarina Hjelm; Emina Hadziabdic; Ali M. Ahmed; Maria Jirwe; Linköpings universitet; []
   Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Communication; Emergency healthcare; Elderly healthcare; Interpreting practices; Organizing; Qualitative methods; Transcultural nursing.;

   Abstract : With an increasing migrant population there is a growing need to organize interpreting practices in healthcare in order to deliver equitable high-quality care.This thesis focuses on healthcare institutions’ organization of interpreting services. READ MORE

5. 3. Health-Promotive Building Design - Exploring perspectives on building design for health promotion in healthcare settings

   Author : Elke Miedema; Chalmers tekniska högskola; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; building design; health promotion; salutogenesis; healthcare organisations; settings; built environment;

   Abstract : This thesis explores perspectives on health promotion in healthcare settings from a building design perspective, i.e., health-promotive building design (HPBD). READ MORE

6. 4. Contentious countrysides : social movements reworking and resisting public healthcare restructuring in rural Sweden

   Author : Desirée Enlund; Aina Tollefsen; Madeleine Eriksson; Linda Sandberg; Cindi Katz; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; welfare state retrenchment; public healthcare restructuring; contentious politics; social movements; cooperatives; self-organization; social reproduction; Sweden; rural areas; New Public Management; neoliberalism; välfärdsstaten; sjukvårdens omvandling; motstånd; sociala rörelser; kooperativ; självorganisering; social reproduktion; landsbygd; glesbygd; New Public Management; nyliberalism; Social and Economic Geography; kulturgeografi; genusvetenskap; gender studies;

   Abstract : The broader aim of this thesis is to contribute to the understanding of the production and reproduction of spatial inequalities following from the restructuring of the public healthcare system. More specifically, by analyzing the contention around healthcare restructuring related to two cases spanning a longer period in northern Sweden, I aim to investigate the changing conditions for healthcare provision in rural and sparsely populated areas, and I explore the forms of collective action that local people engage in to sustain the access to healthcare, as well as how state authorities’ attitudes towards such collective action have shifted. READ MORE

7. 5. Promises and pitfalls of value-based reimbursement in healthcare : A mixed method health economic approach

   Author : Thérèse Eriksson; Lars-Åke Levin; Hans Tropp; Ann-Britt Wiréhn; Ann-Charlotte Nedlund; Claes Rehnberg; Linköpings universitet; []
   Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES;

   Abstract : Financial incentives can be an effective tool to influence behaviour in almost any context and healthcare is no exception. The healthcare market is, however complex, characterised by uncertainty, information asymmetry and multiple agency connections. The reach and limits of financial incentives in healthcare has been widely debated for decades. READ MORE