Search for dissertations about: "social insurance officers"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 8 swedish dissertations containing the words social insurance officers.

  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. To be in‐between : The road to disability pension with reference to the Swedish social insurance system

    Author : Berit Ydreborg; Kerstin Ekberg; Alf Bergroth; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Disability pension; social insurance; social insurance officers; clients; practice; work ability; street‐level bureaucracy; Health and medical services in society; Hälso- och sjukvård i samhället;

    Abstract : Background: The Social Insurance is part of the Swedish welfare system that is intended to create economic security for citizens in the event of unemployment, sickness, functional disability, and old age. The Swedish sickness‐benefit insurance is based on the standard insurance principle meaning that sickness benefits are related to level of lost income. READ MORE

  5. 3. On the information exchange between physicians and social insurance officers in the sick leave process : an activity theoretical perspective

    Author : Fidel Vascós Palacios; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Computer science; Datavetenskap; Economic Information Systems; Ekonomiska informationssystem;

    Abstract : In Sweden, there has been a substantial increase in the number of people on long-term sick leave. This phenomenon has awakened the interest of researchers for understanding its causes. So far, no simple and unambiguous reason explaining this phenomenon has been found. READ MORE

  6. 4. Sickness benefits and measures promoting return to work

    Author : Elsy Söderberg; Anne Hammarström; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : sickness absence; sickness benefit; practices; client; patients; sickness certification; sick leave; return to work; inter-organisational cooperation; gender; work capacity; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP;

    Abstract : Background: Decisions concerning entitlement to sickness benefits have a substantial impact on the lives of individuals and on society. In most countries, such decisions are made by professionals working in public organisations, and there is much debate about the work performed by those experts, hence more knowledge is needed on this subject. READ MORE

  7. 5. Vocational rehabilitation, work resumption and disability pension : a register-study of cases granted vocational rehabilitation by social insurance offices in a Swedish county

    Author : Åsa Ahlgren; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
    Keywords : Rehabilitation measures; disability pension; sick-listed; intra-county differences; work resumption; diagnoses; sick-leave; vocational rehabilitation; return-to-work; unemployment; sickness benefit; health insurance.;

    Abstract : Increasing figures for long-term sickness absence and disability pension are problems for many European countries where they have increased to burdensome levels, socially and financially. In a European study in 2003, Sweden showed the highest proportion of sick-listed with 4.5% of the employed work force absent due to sickness. READ MORE