Search for dissertations about: "social insurance officers"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 8 swedish dissertations containing the words social insurance officers.
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1. 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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2. To be in‐between : The road to disability pension with reference to the Swedish social insurance system
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
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3. On the information exchange between physicians and social insurance officers in the sick leave process : an activity theoretical perspective
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
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4. Sickness benefits and measures promoting return to work
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
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5. Vocational rehabilitation, work resumption and disability pension : a register-study of cases granted vocational rehabilitation by social insurance offices in a Swedish county
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