Search for dissertations about: "rationing in healthcare"

Found 5 swedish dissertations containing the words rationing in healthcare.

  2. 1. Categorization Work in the Swedish Welfare State : Doctors and social insurance officers on persons with mental ill-health

    Author : Maricel L Knechtel; Michael Allvin; Rafael Lindqvist; Sandra Torres; David Rosenberg; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; institutional categorization; institutional categories; street-level bureaucrats; discretion; sick leave; sick listing; diagnosis; mental illness; psychiatric diagnosis; moral work; deservingness; worthiness; medical sociology; work capability; medical certification; social insurance; vignette studies; discrimination; labeling; stickiness; social mechanisms; matching; screening; signaling; cognitive categorization; working conditions; conflicting demands; client processing; Human Service Organizations; work approach; primary health care; moral stress; Bayes; work capability; rationing; Sociologi; Sociology;

    Abstract : This dissertation contributes to the debate on street-level bureaucracy, which highlights how the decisions made by workers in public bureaucracies effectively become public policy. This debate has paid relatively little attention to the study of how professionals carry out their work by means of institutional categorization, a knowledge gap that this study helps to close. READ MORE

  4. 2. The Art of Saying No : The Economics and Ethics of Healthcare Rationing

    Author : Gustav Tinghög; Per Carlsson; Carl Hampus Lyttkens; Ole Frithjof Norheim; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : MEDICINE; MEDICIN;

    Abstract : It follows from resource scarcity that some form of healthcare rationing is unavoidable. This implies that potentially beneficial medical treatments must be denied to patients to avoid unacceptable sacrifices in other areas of society. READ MORE

  5. 3. Asking the public : Citizens´ views on priority setting and resource allocation in democratically governed healthcare

    Author : Mari Broqvist; Peter Garpenby; Barbro Krevers; Lars Sandman; Anna T. Höglund; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

    Abstract : Resource allocation in publicly funded healthcare systems is inevitably linked with priority setting between different patient groups and between different service areas, so-called meso level priorities. Behind every priority-setting decision (investments, reallocating or rationing), are values affecting both the content of the decisions and how the decisions are made. READ MORE

  6. 4. Self-admission as a treatment tool in severe anorexia nervosa

    Author : Mattias Strand; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
    Keywords : ;

    Abstract : Self-admission to psychiatric inpatient treatment is an innovative collaborative approach to healthcare rationing that invites patients to play a more active role in deciding when they need a higher level of care. In self-admission, patients with a history of high utilization of inpatient treatment are offered the choice to decide for themselves when an episode of brief hospital admission—usually 3-7 days at a time—is warranted. READ MORE

  7. 5. Potential overtreatment during life-limiting illness and end of life in older adults

    Author : Máté Szilcz; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
    Keywords : ;

    Abstract : Background. A growing body of evidence suggests that older patients are subject to potential overtreatment at the end of life, characterised by disease modifying therapies, preventive medications, and frequent care transitions. READ MORE