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21. Negotiating needs : Processing older persons as home care recipients in gerontological social work practices
Sammanfattning : The study concerns the needs assessment processes that older persons undergo to gain access to home care. The participation of older persons, their relatives and municipal care managers was studied from a communicative perspective. The assessment meetings functions as formal problem-solving events. LÄS MER
22. Egenvårdens ansikten : Om egenvård från kvacksalveri till patientdemokrati och e-health
Sammanfattning : The aim of this dissertation is to analyze the relations between self-care and the Swedish state, certain authorities and professional health care organisations Self-care is defined as “the speech of the knowledge and activity of layman related to medicine”. The traditional narrow medical perspectives on self-care are broaden to political conditions, patient democracy and other aspects of social science. LÄS MER
23. Becoming aware of blind spots — Norm-critical perspectives on healthcare education
Sammanfattning : BackgroundThis dissertation takes a critical look at norms and normality in healthcare education, focusing on the specific case of a nursing education programme at a Swedish university college. The concepts of norms and normality have a long history in healthcare professions, and have become important for many aspects of social life. LÄS MER
24. Health Data : Representation and (In)visibility
Sammanfattning : Health data requires context to be understood. I show how, by examining two areas: self-surveillance, with a focus on representation of bodily data, and mass-surveillance, with a focus on representing populations. LÄS MER
25. Decision-making in health issues : Teenagers' use of science and other discourses
Sammanfattning : The purpose of this thesis is to develop knowledge about young individuals’ reasoning and how they justify their standpoints concerning trustworthiness and decision-making in issues connected to health where available information is contradictory or uncertain. This purpose has been addressed in three different steps. LÄS MER