Search for dissertations about: "health-policy"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 233 swedish dissertations containing the word health-policy.
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1. Decentralization and National Health Policy Implementation in Uganda - a Problematic Process
Abstract : The Ugandan Government has aimed at creating a needs-based and cost-effective health care system. The means to carry out this aim have been 1) a decentralization of the health sector in order to increase lower-level responsibility, accountability, and participation, and 2) a strong national policy formulation capacity, facilitating needs assessment and cost-effective prioritization. READ MORE
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2. Empirical Essays on Education and Health Policy Evaluation
Abstract : Chapter 1: Impact of School Peers from the Same Region-of-Origin on Endogamy and Work Segregation: Evidence from Sweden This study estimates how the quasi-random variation in the proportion of school peers from the same Region-of-Origin (ROO) affects the probability for an individual to have a partner from the same ROO (endogamy) and the proportion of colleagues from the same ROO in the same workplace later in life (work segregation). This is answered by a fixed effect regression model, together with a unique dataset that merges different register databases from Sweden. READ MORE
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3. Anti-paternalism and Public Health Policy
Abstract : This thesis is an attempt to constructively interpret and critically evaluate the liberal doctrine that we may not limit a person’s liberty for her own good, and to discuss its implications and alternatives in some concrete areas of public health policy. The thesis starts theoretical and goes ever more practical. READ MORE
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4. Institutionally Shaped Response to the Introduction of National Guidelines : Case Studies in the Swedish Regional Health Policy Arena
Abstract : The purpose of this thesis is to explore the institutionally shaped response to the introduction of the national guidelines on the Swedish regional health policy arena. The thesis consists of two case studies. Adapting a qualitative approach, the data is based on individual interviews and these were analysed thematically. READ MORE
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5. The state and the medical profession : A cross-national comparison of the health policy arena in the United Kingdom and Sweden 1945 - 1985
Abstract : The present study analyses the relationship between the State and the medical profession in the United Kingdom and Sweden in the period 1945 to 1985. They are nations which have adopted similar principles for providing health services to the population in the post-war period. READ MORE