Sökning: "sickness benefits"

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  1. 1. Sickness benefits and measures promoting return to work

    Författare :Elsy Söderberg; Anne Hammarström; Linköpings universitet; []
    Nyckelord :sickness absence; sickness benefit; practices; client; patients; sickness certification; sick leave; return to work; inter-organisational cooperation; gender; work capacity; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP;

    Sammanfattning : Background: Decisions concerning entitlement to sickness benefits have a substantial impact on the lives of individuals and on society. In most countries, such decisions are made by professionals working in public organisations, and there is much debate about the work performed by those experts, hence more knowledge is needed on this subject. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Tilting trains : Technology, benefits and motion sickness

    Författare :Rickard Persson; Evert Andersson; Karl Kottenhoff; KTH; []
    Nyckelord :TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; tilting trains; motion sickness; ride comfort; running time; track geometry; Vehicle engineering; Farkostteknik;

    Sammanfattning : Carbody tilting is today a mature and inexpensive technology allowing higher speeds in curves and thus reduced travel time. The technology is accepted by most train operators, but a limited set of issues still holding back the full potential of tilting trains. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Economic policy in health care : Sickness absence and pharmaceutical costs

    Författare :David Granlund; Magnus Wikström; Niklas Rudholm; Åke G Blomquist; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; vertical fiscal externalities; sickness absence; sickness benefits; health care expenditure; fixed budgets; pharmaceuticals; cost containment; dynamic panel data models; endogeneity; propensity score matching; Economics; Nationalekonomi;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis consists of a summary and four papers. The first two concerns health care and sickness absence, and the last two pharmaceutical costs and prices. Paper [I] presents an economic federation model which resembles the situation in, for example, Sweden. LÄS MER

  5. 4. A Swedish Dilemma : Culture and Rule of Law in Swedish Sickness Insurance

    Författare :Matthias Abelin; Socialantropologi; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Rule of law; Sickness benefits; Disability benefits;

    Sammanfattning : Swedish society has been described as both modern, liberal democratic and deeply humanitarian; and as more or less premodern, semi-authoritarian and potentially abusive of groups with weak political representation. In this dissertation, this Swedish dilemma is explored in an anthropology of law tradition, with disputing practices as an inroad to an understanding of law as culture. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Från folkrörelse till välfärdsbyråkrati : det svenska sjukförsäkringssystemets utveckling 1900-1990

    Författare :Rafael Lindqvist; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; social policy; sickness insurance societies; National Sickness Insurance; welfare bureaucracy; bureaucracy; efficiency; legitimacy; Sweden;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis describes and analyses the transformation of the Swedish sickness insurance and the specific character of the modern sickness insurance system. It deals with the capacity or the sickness insurance to create social integration and cohesion. LÄS MER