Search for dissertations about: "thesis on health care administration"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 110 swedish dissertations containing the words thesis on health care administration.
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1. Budgetary control in public health care : a study about perceptions of budgetary control among clinical directors
Abstract : Health care expenditures have increased rapidly in most OECD-countries, and several reforms have been considered for the improvement of cost-containment in the health care sector. Physicians in particular have been recognized to have considerable impact on health care expenditures and as a result they have become increasingly involved in budgetary control with the hope of a more efficient use of resources. READ MORE
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2. Health Care Customer Creativity
Abstract : Crafting and stimulating service innovation is considered a main research priority and remains a challenge for service providers. One suggested component of stimulating service innovation is customer creativity. READ MORE
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3. Values and Practices of Quality Management - Health implications and organisational differences
Abstract : This thesis has two main aims which are developed in seven papers. The first aim is to explore the knowledge and use of actual values and practices of quality management in different organisational settings. A mail survey covering 500 Swedish quality professionals was carried out. READ MORE
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4. Steering health and social care through quasi-markets
Abstract : Municipalities and county councils try a multitude of different strategies when they design and steer health and social care markets to ensure that goals such as quality and equity are met. Depending on the strategies used, different problems arise. READ MORE
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5. The Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) approach as a framework for business involvement in health promotion in the welfare state
Abstract : This dissertation is to be situated in the debate about the development of the contemporary Western European welfare state, its displacement of responsibilities from state to non-state societal actors and the resulting concerns vis-à-vis the optimal distribution of responsibilities. Drawing, in interdisciplinary fashion, from the fields of political sociology, political economics, welfare studies, public health policy, and management, it focuses upon the involvement of for-profit, non-state actors into a field traditionally of state competence, that of public health. READ MORE