Search for dissertations about: "sick listing"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 19 swedish dissertations containing the words sick listing.
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1. Sick-listing - attitudes and doctors' practice : With special emphasis on sick-listing practice in primary health care
Abstract : The aim of this study was to describe attitudes and doctors' practice regarding the sick-listing process. Using a questionnaire distributed among newly sick-listed patients, their doctors,employers and officials at the National Health Insurance office it was found that the patients held a more positive view on the beneficial effects of sick-listing. READ MORE
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2. Sick Leave Questions in Telephone Nursing : Perspectives of Persons on Sick Leave and Registered Nurses in Primary Health Care
Abstract : Aim and methods: To explore experiences of being on sick leave by interviewing 16 persons on sick leave and using a phenomenological approach. To explore registered nurses’ work in the care of persons on sick leave by performing three focus group discussions with registered nurses. READ MORE
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3. Categorization Work in the Swedish Welfare State : Doctors and social insurance officers on persons with mental ill-health
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
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4. Towards Understanding of Determinants of Physicians’ Sick-listing Practice and their Interrelations : A Population-based Epidemiological Study
Abstract : Physicians are supposed to act as sick-listing experts and they possess a role as gate-keepers to the social insurance system. Earlier studies have demonstrated variation between physicians and physician categories regarding sick-listing practice. READ MORE
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5. Physician Sickness Certification Practice focusing on views and barriers among general practitioners and orthopaedic surgeons
Abstract : There is no common understanding on what constitutes good sick-listing, a frequent and problematic task for many physicians, especially general practitioners (GPs) and orthopaedic surgeons. Aiming to achieve a deeper understanding of sick-listing practices, 19 GPs (I, III) and 18 orthopaedic surgeons (II) in four counties were interviewed, and data analysed qualitatively for views on good sickness certification and barriers to desired practice. READ MORE