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Attitudes to prioritization in selected health care activities
- Authors:
- RYYNANEN O-P., et al
- Journal article citation:
- Scandinavian Journal of Social Welfare, 7(4), October 1998, pp.320-329.
- Publisher:
- Munksgaard/ Blackwell
The aim of this study was to measure attitudes to health care prioritisation in various Finnish population groups: the general public, politicians and medical and social work professionals.
Social crisis and the formation of medico-social service in Russia
- Authors:
- SHCHEPIN O., SIDOROV P., VYAZMIN A.
- Journal article citation:
- Scandinavian Journal of Social Welfare, 7(1), January 1998, pp.2-8.
- Publisher:
- Munksgaard/ Blackwell
Socio-economic reforms have changed the social life of Russia. A large number of social problems in the transition period has negatively affected the social well-being and health of the nation. The critical situation of the health care system does not allow for the maintenance of the public health of the Russian population at the required level. To solve this problem, it is necessary to improve social services in Russia. The training of medico-social workers is currently being conducted within the system of higher medical education in Russia with the support of the Swedish universities.
The construction of the medical insurance system in the Republic of Korea, 1963-1989
- Author:
- SON A.H.K.
- Journal article citation:
- Scandinavian Journal of Social Welfare, 7(1), January 1998, pp.17-26.
- Publisher:
- Munksgaard/ Blackwell
Discusses the problems faced by Korea's health policy makers and the background to its national medical insurance system.
Quality function deployment for developing a customized social medical service
- Authors:
- HALLBERG N., TIMPKA T.
- Journal article citation:
- Scandinavian Journal of Social Welfare, 6(4), October 1997, pp.292-300.
- Publisher:
- Munksgaard/ Blackwell
Describes the use of quality function deployment in orienting clinical social medicine to a quasi-market situation. Shows that different customers have different requirements. Concludes that quality function deployment can be used as a method of defining and developing social services. Argues that a strict accommodation of the demands from the quasi-market would lead to contradictions with the theory used today as the basis for sociomedical services.
Aging and social welfare in transition: the case of the United States
- Authors:
- PARROTT T.M, REYNOLDS S.L., BENGTSON V.L.
- Journal article citation:
- Scandinavian Journal of Social Welfare, 6(3), July 1997, pp.168-179.
- Publisher:
- Munksgaard/ Blackwell
Reviews the changing demography of the United States elderly population, the complex and ambivalent history of welfare policy in the United States, and the evidence for tensions and conflicts between older and younger Americans in the context of politicised "generational inequity" debates with special attention to changing government health care policies. Concludes that in American society, particularly in terms of federal assistance to the aged, there is considerable public support for current policy measures, and - contrary to the predictions of many - it is not likely that there will be dramatic policy changes in the near future.
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.
Early feeding problems: identification by parents and health care personnel
- Authors:
- BOHLIN G., et al
- Journal article citation:
- Scandinavian Journal of Social Welfare, 4(4), October 1995, pp.238-245.
- Publisher:
- Munksgaard/ Blackwell
This study investigated the discrepancy between parental reports indicating a high prevalence of feeding problems during infancy and the relatively low identification rate of such cases at child health care centres.
Distribution of home help services in an elderly urban population: data from the Kungsholmen Project
- Authors:
- TORRES Aguero, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Scandinavian Journal of Social Welfare, 4(4), October 1995, pp.274-279.
- Publisher:
- Munksgaard/ Blackwell
Data from the total urban population 75 years and older in Kungsholmen, Stockholm, were used to calculate the distribution of home help services. Results show that 86% of the elderly population in the Municipality of Kungsholmen live in their own homes, even when they are very old. 27% of those over 74 years and 33% of those over 80 years received home help services. The people receiving help were mostly women, single living, older and with disability detected by the Katz Activities of Daily Living Scale. Findings stress the need for more attention by health care planners of domiciliary and intensive care and residential facilities for the high risk population (very old, living alone, and with a disability.)
Is there a field of social work? Trainees evaluating social problems and social work
- Author:
- WALLS G.
- Journal article citation:
- Scandinavian Journal of Social Welfare, 4(1), January 1995, pp.28-35.
- Publisher:
- Munksgaard/ Blackwell
It is debatable whether social work constitutes a field of practice and research, according to the criteria established by other professions close to or even competing with social work. It seems obvious that social work is both practical and theoretical. The question, however, is whether there is a shared understanding concerning the nature of social work among the actors - i.e. the heads, social workers and officials of social welfare and health care agencies and voluntary organisations. This article reports research into the rationality and language games employed in social work by social work trainees and social work practitioners/managers.
Ethnicity as a risk indicator for musculoskeletal disease, long consultation times and care utilization. A prospective visitor study of 438 consecutive adult consultations of a primary health care centre
- Authors:
- SUNDQUIST J., ROSEN U., JOHANSSON S.-E.
- Journal article citation:
- Scandinavian Journal of Social Welfare, 3(4), October 1994, pp.212-217.
- Publisher:
- Munksgaard/ Blackwell
This article shows the influence of ethnicity (people born outside Sweden and in Sweden) and social class on the distribution of diagnoses, consultation time and health care utilization in primary health care in Lund, Sweden.