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The Healthcare Factory: Healthcare in the European and Swedish political economies between 1973-2020

Fridolfsson, Emil LU (2020) STVM23 20201
Department of Political Science
Abstract
Healthcare might seem like it is a purely medical issue. Nothing could be further from the truth. Both politics, law and the economy are all closely tied to healthcare. In this thesis I analyze the sensitive topic of healthcare through a critical understanding of the European and Swedish political economies from the 1970s until today. Europe serves as the broad picture, while Swedish healthcare policy and governance help exemplify
how abstract ideas of the economy and politics become embedded in our day-to-day actions. Emphasis is put on explaining the policy changes of the Social Democratic Party in Sweden.

To my help I use Critical Discourse Analysis on reports, investigations and legal texts, as well as material from interviews with... (More)
Healthcare might seem like it is a purely medical issue. Nothing could be further from the truth. Both politics, law and the economy are all closely tied to healthcare. In this thesis I analyze the sensitive topic of healthcare through a critical understanding of the European and Swedish political economies from the 1970s until today. Europe serves as the broad picture, while Swedish healthcare policy and governance help exemplify
how abstract ideas of the economy and politics become embedded in our day-to-day actions. Emphasis is put on explaining the policy changes of the Social Democratic Party in Sweden.

To my help I use Critical Discourse Analysis on reports, investigations and legal texts, as well as material from interviews with two medical professionals. In addition to this, I triangulate the results by studying second hand material on political and economic conditions in Europe and Sweden. I show how the Social Democrats have introduced New Public Management-reforms as a way to manage the public administration more
efficiently. Furthermore, New Public Management-reforms in healthcare are analyzed as an attempt to stabilize a fundamentally unstable transnational political economy by opening a "healthcare market" to attract capital and capitalists. (Less)
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author
Fridolfsson, Emil LU
supervisor
organization
course
STVM23 20201
year
type
H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
subject
keywords
Critical political economy, healthcare, European Union, Sweden, New Public Management, Critical Discourse Analysis, healthcare choice, Fordism, post- Fordism, sjukvård, hälso- och sjukvård, LOV, lagen om valfrihetssystem, vårdval, Europeiska Unionen, inre marknaden, integration, HSL, vårdgaranti, Region Skåne, ERT, European round-table of industrialists
language
English
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9009632
date added to LUP
2020-08-14 12:27:01
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2020-08-14 12:27:01
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  abstract     = {{Healthcare might seem like it is a purely medical issue. Nothing could be further from the truth. Both politics, law and the economy are all closely tied to healthcare. In this thesis I analyze the sensitive topic of healthcare through a critical understanding of the European and Swedish political economies from the 1970s until today. Europe serves as the broad picture, while Swedish healthcare policy and governance help exemplify
how abstract ideas of the economy and politics become embedded in our day-to-day actions. Emphasis is put on explaining the policy changes of the Social Democratic Party in Sweden.

To my help I use Critical Discourse Analysis on reports, investigations and legal texts, as well as material from interviews with two medical professionals. In addition to this, I triangulate the results by studying second hand material on political and economic conditions in Europe and Sweden. I show how the Social Democrats have introduced New Public Management-reforms as a way to manage the public administration more
efficiently. Furthermore, New Public Management-reforms in healthcare are analyzed as an attempt to stabilize a fundamentally unstable transnational political economy by opening a "healthcare market" to attract capital and capitalists.}},
  author       = {{Fridolfsson, Emil}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{The Healthcare Factory: Healthcare in the European and Swedish political economies between 1973-2020}},
  year         = {{2020}},
}