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Allocating limited health care resources - the tragedy of patient relations with the mass media
- Author:
- BERG J.E.
- Journal article citation:
- Scandinavian Journal of Social Welfare, 6(2), April 1997, pp.137-141.
- Publisher:
- Munksgaard/ Blackwell
Looks at how the allocation of limited resources for social welfare purposes, including health care, may be distorted by publicity in the mass media.. In this article an actual case and stylised examples are used to indicate the willingness to pay for health care depends on the distance between customer and decision-maker. The role of the mass media in serious medical treatment decisions in then discussed.
Disability pensions granted from 1988 to 1990 in two municipalities in Norway: the importance of occupational status
- Author:
- BERG J.E.
- Journal article citation:
- Scandinavian Journal of Social Welfare, 3(1), January 1994, pp.14-18.
- Publisher:
- Munksgaard/ Blackwell
Drug addiction as a lifestyle: the use of a new scale to observe changes in sense of coherence
- Authors:
- BERG J.E., et al
- Journal article citation:
- Scandinavian Journal of Social Welfare, 5(1), January 1996, pp.30-34.
- Publisher:
- Munksgaard/ Blackwell
Drug addict rehabilitation programs receive a small proportion of the funds made available through the social welfare system. Emphasis has traditionally been placed on the pathological rather than the salutogenic elements of an addicted lifestyle. A new test of a person's sense of coherence in life (Antonovsky's 9-item Sense of Coherence scale) may be of interest in rehabilitation work with drug addicts, and in focussing more attention on this aspect of addiction treatment. Thirty drug addicts in treatment and rehabilitation and 10 former drug addicts were interviewed using this scale. The results were compared to the well known test of distress, the 24-item Symptom Checklist. The differences in the results of the test groups is analysed.