Om vikten av kvalitet. En studie av förändring i svensk hälso- och sjukvård.
(2004)Department of Political Science
- Abstract
- The public health care sector has come under increasing pressure to cut down costs, maximize productivity and satisfy patients' needs during the 1990s and onwards. As a way of "getting more for less" quality management has been introduced. Originating in the private manufacturing industry, quality management has a strong focus on productivity and efficiency, aspects which are measured in quantitative terms. However, there are strong concerns that quality management is a means of speeding up the marketization of public health care by introducing core values much different from the ethic and medical norms that traditionally underpin health care organizations.
This essay focuses on how quality management has been introduced to, and... (More) - The public health care sector has come under increasing pressure to cut down costs, maximize productivity and satisfy patients' needs during the 1990s and onwards. As a way of "getting more for less" quality management has been introduced. Originating in the private manufacturing industry, quality management has a strong focus on productivity and efficiency, aspects which are measured in quantitative terms. However, there are strong concerns that quality management is a means of speeding up the marketization of public health care by introducing core values much different from the ethic and medical norms that traditionally underpin health care organizations.
This essay focuses on how quality management has been introduced to, and transformed by, public health care. A theoretical framework based on new institutionalism is constructed, and translation theories are used as a way of illustrating how the medical institutional environment, in fact, changes the concept of quality management. Quality is re-interpreted in the public health care organization field and given a medical and ethical base, which results in the weakening of the expected normative conflict. (Less)
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- author
- Andersson, Cornelia
- supervisor
- organization
- year
- 2004
- type
- H1 - Master's Degree (One Year)
- subject
- keywords
- quality management, public health care, translation, organizational change, New Public Management, Hospital science and management, Sjukhusforskning, sjukhusförvaltning, Political and administrative sciences, Statsvetenskap, förvaltningskunskap
- language
- Swedish
- id
- 1333701
- date added to LUP
- 2004-05-24 00:00:00
- date last changed
- 2005-01-14 00:00:00
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abstract = {{The public health care sector has come under increasing pressure to cut down costs, maximize productivity and satisfy patients' needs during the 1990s and onwards. As a way of "getting more for less" quality management has been introduced. Originating in the private manufacturing industry, quality management has a strong focus on productivity and efficiency, aspects which are measured in quantitative terms. However, there are strong concerns that quality management is a means of speeding up the marketization of public health care by introducing core values much different from the ethic and medical norms that traditionally underpin health care organizations.
This essay focuses on how quality management has been introduced to, and transformed by, public health care. A theoretical framework based on new institutionalism is constructed, and translation theories are used as a way of illustrating how the medical institutional environment, in fact, changes the concept of quality management. Quality is re-interpreted in the public health care organization field and given a medical and ethical base, which results in the weakening of the expected normative conflict.}},
author = {{Andersson, Cornelia}},
language = {{swe}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{Om vikten av kvalitet. En studie av förändring i svensk hälso- och sjukvård.}},
year = {{2004}},
}