Search for dissertations about: "health care financing and delivery"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 9 swedish dissertations containing the words health care financing and delivery.

2. 1. Reproductive outcomes in rural Vietnam. Perspectives and experiences by pregnant women and health care professionals on pregnancy promotion and maternal health care

   Author : Sophie Graner; Ingrid Mogren; Gunilla Krantz; Elisabeth Darj; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Maternal health services; Maternal health care; Antenatal care; Reproductive health; Pregnancy outcome; Pregnancy complications; Perinatal mortality; Neonatal mortality; Birth weight; Small for gestational age; Epidemiology; Cohort study; Qualitative research; Content analysis; Vietnam; Obstetrics and women s diseases; Obstetrik och kvinnosjukdomar; obstetrik och gynekologi; Obstetrics and Gynaecology;

   Abstract : Background Reproductive health and health events associated with pregnancy including induced abortions are among the most important factors for the health of fertile women. Adverse outcomes have an impact on women’s reproductive health and their overall health as well as the health of their offspring. READ MORE

4. 2. Between Equity and Local Autonomy : A Governance Dilemma in Swedish Healthcare

   Author : Mio Fredriksson; Ulrika Winblad; Paula Blomqvist; Anders Lidström; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; healthcare; health policy; local autonomy; national equity; governance; Hälso- och sjukvårdsforskning; Health Care Research;

   Abstract : Both national equity in healthcare and the county councils’ local autonomy are important values supported by Swedish law. Politically it is a balancing act; how much freedom should the county councils have and to what extent should healthcare be equal throughout the country? The general aim of this dissertation, concerning political governance in Swedish healthcare, is to investigate the tensional values of national equity and local autonomy in the light of current trends in healthcare governance in Sweden. READ MORE

5. 3. The Bumpy Road to Universal Health Coverage : Access to Primary and Emergency Care in Rural Tropical Ecuador

   Author : Martin Eckhardt; Magnus Falk; Tomas Faresjö; Birger Forsberg; Miguel San Sebastián; Linköpings universitet; []
   Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES;

   Abstract : Background: By the turn of the new millennium 84% of families in rural coastal Ecuador had difficulties to access health services. A health reform some years earlier to improve this situation had not been implemented. READ MORE

6. 4. Measuring Efficiency in the Swedish Health Care Sector – Levels, Trade-offs and Determinants

   Author : Nils Janlöv; Nationalekonomiska institutionen; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Quality; Efficiency measurement; Data Envelopment Analysis DEA ; Stochastic Frontier Analysis SFA ; Health Care; Health districts; Elderly Care;

   Abstract : This thesis measures cost efficiency in the production of health care and social services in Sweden. The object of analysis is not provider efficiency, but instead the relative efficiency of political organizations or different contractual arrangements. READ MORE

7. 5. Health care financing in China : equity in transition

   Author : Lennart Bogg; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
   Keywords : Equity; gender; health expenditure; health financing; health insurance; health reform; health services; family planning; maternal health; tuberculosis; China;

   Abstract : The aim of the thesis is 1) to assess equity in the provision, financing and utilization of health services in the study counties, after the launching of the Chinese health reform, in relation to income and health status, 2) to assess equity in utilization, financial barriers to care and poverty impact and the association of financial variables; alternative health insurance systerns and out-of-pocket financing and the association of non-financial variables; gender, age, education, occupation and geographical distance to health facilities. The data collection was carried out from 1993 to 1996. READ MORE