Search for dissertations about: "health-care organization"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 119 swedish dissertations containing the words health-care organization.

  2. 1. The organization of public health care : An economic analysis of the Swedish health care system

    Author : Clas Rehnberg; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; in-house production vs contracting-out; institutional economics; internal organization; health economics; health insurance; principals and agents; public health care; Sweden; INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH AREAS; TVÄRVETENSKAPLIGA FORSKNINGSOMRÅDEN;

    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

  4. 2. Quality of health care : Patient and staff perspectives : a study of changes 1992-1996 with special reference to diagnosis related groups

    Author : Birgitta Ljunggren; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : Medical sciences; Quality of health care; quality of life; patient satisfaction; job satisfaction; Diagnosis Related Groups; and organizational changes; MEDICIN OCH VÅRD; MEDICINE; MEDICIN; omvårdnadsforskning med medicinsk inriktning; Caring Sciences;

    Abstract : By the early 90s, some Swedish county councils initiated market-oriented steering mechanisms to meet increasing demands for cost efficiency. Among these was the County Council of Gävleborg. The U.S. READ MORE

  5. 3. Modern Perspectives on the Digital Economy : With Insights From the Health Care Sector

    Author : Pontus Fryk; Birger Rapp; Bo Carlsson; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; IT; digitization; organization; organizational change; process; health care; Business and economics; Ekonomi; Business Studies; företagsekonomi;

    Abstract : During the last decades, extensive investments in IT have been made more or less within the majority of the existing industries. This development presents both opportunities and risks with regard to organization and change. READ MORE

  6. 4. The production and maintenance of inequalities in health care : A communicative perspective

    Author : Joel Hedegaard; Helene Ahl; Airi Rovio-Johansson; Karin Jonnergård; Jönköping University; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; communication; gender; ethnicity; health care; organization; critical discourse analysis; social constructionism; social positions; qualitative content analysis;

    Abstract : The Swedish health care system does not offer care on equal terms for all its end-users. Discrimination toward patients can take the form substandard communication toward women or foreign born patients. Discrimination is also embedded in the organizational context. READ MORE

  7. 5. Beyond IT and Productivity : Effects of Digitized Information Flows in Health Care

    Author : Pontus Fryk; Thomas Falk; Nils-Göran Olve; Mats Edenius; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Health Care; Productivity Paradox; Information Technology; Productivity; Process; Information; Communication; Economy; Business and economics; Ekonomi; Economic Information Systems; Ekonomiska informationssystem;

    Abstract : Denna avhandling undersöker hur investeringar i IT, och digitaliseringen av informationsflöden, har påverkat produktiviteten inom sjukvården. Genom empiriska undersökningar av avgränsade sjukvårdsprocesser – samt diskussioner baserade på idéer och teorier relaterade till ekonomi, ”produktivitetsparadoxen”, så kallade General Purpose Technologies (GPTs), och medicinsk informatik – detekteras och analyseras effekter av digitaliseringen. READ MORE