Essays about: "healthcare reform"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 27 essays containing the words healthcare reform.
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1. “Don’t do it, but do it” : Exploring a legal window of opportunity for safe abortion and the role of healthcare practitioners in implementing the right to health in Ethiopia
University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; Lunds universitet/LUMID International Master programme in applied International Development and ManagementAbstract : Unsafe abortion is a major contributing factor to maternal mortality with 47,000 largely avoidable deaths occurring globally every year, the majority in the global south. Ethiopia has taken a unique approach to addressing maternal mortality impacted by unsafe abortion through a 2005 reform of the abortion legislation in which abortion is illegal but available under a range of exceptions. READ MORE
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2. “They Told Me The Pills Were Safe” : Understanding the Experience of Iatrogenic Injury from Psychiatric Treatment
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Sociologiska institutionenAbstract : Iatrogenic injury resulting from psychiatric treatment represents a critical concern within the healthcare system and causes great harm to the afflicted individuals. This study delves into the multifaceted dimensions of iatrogenic harm attributed to psychiatric treatment, with a focus on the interplay between trust, accountability and recognition, and the social and relational experience of receiving treatment that ends up causing harm. READ MORE
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3. Bridging the gap – identifying spaces where value can be co-created on the path to a good quality, local healthcare
University essay from Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för datavetenskapAbstract : “Good quality, local healthcare – A primary care reform (SOU 2018:39) was used as a contextual frame in this study with the aim of identifying spaces where patients, next of kin and healthcare personnel, through the use of design, can be supported in developing more collaborative ways of working in the two northernmost regions in Sweden. Qualitative methods such as semi structured interviews and workshops were conducted together with multimorbid patients, their next of kin and healthcare personnel. READ MORE
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4. Does increased competition between healthcare providers influence the number of opioid prescriptions dispensed?
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionenAbstract : Mortality related to drug abuse, primarily from opioids is very high in Sweden. The increased access to opioids have had severe consequences such as abuse, illegal opioid trafficking and overdoses. One contributing factor to this development is suggested to be over-prescriptions by physicians. READ MORE
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5. Medicalizing Me Softly: An Autoethnography of Refusal
University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate SchoolAbstract : This autoethnographic study explores intra-community discursive boundary constructions around the category of transgender articulated by truscum trans men on Reddit. It does so through reflections on how the author negotiates the medical model of trans, his own gender identity, the medico-juridical interlock governing access to trans healthcare and trans livability, and tensions of closeness/distance to those they interview. READ MORE
