Search for dissertations about: "health-care utilization"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 121 swedish dissertations containing the words health-care utilization.

2. 1. Health Care Utilization among Young Adults in Primary and Emergency Health Care : The Need for Support, the Capacity to Support, and the Communication in between

   Author : Lisa Viktorsson; Pia Yngman Uhlin; Eva Törnvall; Magnus Falk; Boel Andersson Gäre; Linköpings universitet; []
   Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Young adult; Health care utilization; Health literacy; Empowerment; Integrated care;

   Abstract : Swedish health care has set an aim of working towards ‘a good and integrated care’ with focus on patient-centred care in an effort to strengthen patient autonomy and improve accessibility. Problems with accessibility in earlier research have been associated with non-urgent complaints, especially at emergency departments (EDs). READ MORE

4. 2. Quality, costs and the role of primary health care

   Author : Sven Engström; Lars Borgquist; Ingvar Krakau; Linköpings universitet; []
   Keywords : Drug utilization review methods; Hospitalization statistics and numerical data; Outpatient clinics; hospital utilization; Primary health care; Quality of health care; Respiratory tract infections; drug therapy; Family practice; Cost-benefit analysis; Efficiency; Organizational; Health care costs; MEDICINE; MEDICIN;

   Abstract : The general aim of this thesis is to describe and analyse the role of primary care in health care systems in terms of health, health care utilisation and costs, and to study the feasibility of retrieval of data from computerised medical records to monitor medical quality.The thesis includes five studies, a systematic literature review, a register study of utilisation of hospital and primary care, a study based on data from computerised medical records of individual patients cost for primary care, and two studies of management of respiratory infections in primary care based on data from computerised medical records of twelve health centres. READ MORE

5. 3. Planning primary health care provision : assessment of development work at a health centre

   Author : Göran Westman; Bengt Mattsson; Carl-Gunnar Eriksson; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Primary health care planning; quality of care; evaluation; ambulatory care assessment; health centre management;

   Abstract : At the Primary Health Care Centre in Vännäs (VPHCC), northern Sweden, a development work was implemented in 1976-1980. The overall purpose was to enhance primary health care planning. READ MORE

6. 4. Price sensitivity and regional variation in health care

   Author : Naimi Johansson; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; health care utilization; health insurance; regional variation; price sensitivity;

   Abstract : Understanding the consequences of current health policy is important in order to design and develop a health care system suitable for future challenges. The purpose of this thesis is to bring evidence on the determinants of regional variation in health care and on individuals’ responsiveness to patient out-of-pocket prices in Sweden. READ MORE

7. 5. The rough journey to access health care : the case of leishmaniasis in the Bolivian rainforest

   Author : Daniel V. Eid Rodríguez; Miguel San Sebastián; Isabel Goicolea; Anna-Karin Hurtig; John Porter; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Cutaneous leishmaniasis; Health-care access; risk factors; population surveillance; capture-recapture; health care seeking behavior; intralesional pentavalent antimonials; economic analysis; cost analysis; budget impact analysis; Bolivia; rainforest; Public health; folkhälsa;

   Abstract : Background: Leishmaniasis is a parasitic infectious disease transmitted by vectors that cause three main clinical syndromes: cutaneous (CL), mucosal (ML), and visceral (VL). Since VL is not relevant to this thesis, only CL and ML will be further discussed. READ MORE