Search for dissertations about: "Health care sector"
Showing result 11 - 15 of 149 swedish dissertations containing the words Health care sector.
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11. Marketisation of Swedish Primary Care : Patient Choice, Provider Competition and Payment Incentives
Abstract : In the last decades, market elements—such as patient choice, provider competition and payment incentives—have been introduced in Swedish primary care, the Patient Choice reform in 2010 being pivotal for the marketisation of the sector. The political intentions with the reform were to empower patients and increase provider diversity, thereby stimulating competition and improving quality and access. READ MORE
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12. Participatory approaches to strengthening district health managers' capacity : Ugandan and global experiences
Abstract : Introduction:Residents of low in-come countries have persistently suffered poor health outcomes, modest progress made over time notwithstanding. Weak health systems are one of the key reasons for the less than optimum progress. These health systems are constrained by inadequately equipped managers who play a main role in curbing this progress. READ MORE
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13. The organization of public health care : An economic analysis of the Swedish health care system
Abstract : The present study focuses on the organization of public health care in Sweden. The purpose of the thesis is to analyse the institutional arrangements in public health care from the standpoint of the so-called New Institutional Economics. READ MORE
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14. Catastrophic health expenditure in Vietnam : studies of problems and solutions
Abstract : Background: In Vietnam, problems of high out-of-pocket payments for health, leading to catastrophic health expenditure and resulting impoverishment for vulnerable groups, has been at focus in the past decades. Since the beginning of the 1990’s, the Vietnamese government has launched a series of social health insurance reforms to increase prepayment in the health sector and thereby better protect the population from the financial consequences of health problems. READ MORE
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15. Women's call for caring care : perspectives of Chinese women with gestational diabetes mellitus about beliefs, self-care behavior, quality of care and lived experience
Abstract : The overall aim of the thesis was to explore the perspectives of Chinese women with gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) focused on their beliefs about health and illness and self-care behavior, the quality of care in China, and their lived experience. All the studies were conducted with qualitative methodology using individual interviews. READ MORE
