The Swedish Health-Care System

1986 ◽  
pp. 81-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Peterson ◽  
A. Leimanis
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care System ◽  
Swedish Health Care ◽  
Care System

scholarly journals Swedish health care system – some trends of its reforming

2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 151-164 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcin Moks
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health System ◽  
Health Care System ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Diagnosis Related Groups ◽  
Health Care Facilities ◽  
System Reform ◽  
Swedish Health Care ◽  
Care Facilities ◽  
Care System

The constant increase in public health expenditure, which is being observed from the 60s, initiated research into way to optimize it. The aim the article is to show concepts of the health reforms which have been applied in the Swedish health service. In the article are presented main proposals of changes in the system financing and service provision. Article characterizes patient participation in costs of services, private health insurance, privatisation of health care facilities, purchase-provider split and providers reimbursement. The articles begins with the overview of concepts related to health care system reform. Next, the health system in Sweden is shortly presented. The main part of the article presents the reforms which has been implemented in the financing and services provision. Patients’ participation in financing of the health system has been extended by fees for service. The importance of private medical insurance is marginal. Purchaser-provider split has been introduced in most of counties. In general primary care facilities have been privatised. In regard to service providers reimbursement is generally used global budgeting, feed for service or diagnosis-related groups.

scholarly journals Collection and use of EQ-5D for follow-up, decision-making, and quality improvement in health care - the case of the Swedish National Quality Registries

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Olivia Ernstsson ◽  
Mathieu F. Janssen ◽  
Emelie Heintz
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Quality Improvement ◽  
Health Care System ◽  
Swedish Health Care ◽  
National Quality ◽  
Patient Reported ◽  
Different Levels ◽  
Care System

Abstract Background The Swedish National Quality Registries (NQRs) contain individual-level health care data for specific patient populations, or patients receiving specific interventions. Approximately 90% of the 105 Swedish NQRs include any patient-reported outcome measure, with EQ-5D being the most common. As there has been no general overview of EQ-5D data within the NQRs, this study fills a knowledge gap by reporting how the data are collected, presented, and used at different levels of the Swedish health care system. Methods All 46 NQRs with a license for the use of EQ-5D were included. Information was retrieved from the registries’ annual reports or from websites, using a template that was subsequently sent to each registry for completion and confirmation. If considered necessary, the contact was followed-up with an interview, either in-person or over the telephone. The uses of EQ-5D were categorised as denoting usage for follow-up, decision-making, or quality improvement in Swedish health care. Results In total, 41 of the 46 licensed registries reported collection of EQ-5D data. EQ-5D is most commonly collected within registries related to the musculoskeletal system, but it has a wide application also in other disease areas. Thirty-six registries provide EQ-5D results to patients, clinicians, or other decision-makers. Twenty-two of the registries reported that EQ-5D data are being used for follow-up, decision-making or quality improvement. The registries most commonly reported use of data for assessing interventions, and in quality indicators to follow-up the quality of care at a national level. Conclusion Collection and use of EQ-5D data vary across the Swedish NQRs, which may partly be accounted for by the different purposes of the registries. The provided examples of use illustrate how EQ-5D data can inform decisions at different levels of the health care system. However, there is potential for improving the use of EQ-5D data.

Blurred Religion in Contemporary Sweden: Health Care Institutions as an Empirical Example

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 161-185
Author(s):  
Magdalena Nordin
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care System ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Care Givers ◽  
Religious Issues ◽  
Swedish Health Care ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
System Focus ◽  
Empirical Material ◽  
Care System

The aim of the article is to highlight the blurred religious situation in contemporary Sweden on an individual level by studying religious needs and practices among patients in the Swedish health care system. Focus is on how religious issues are handled by the health care givers and how patients wish it would be handled. The empirical material for the article is twenty-seven in-depth interviews with former patients and representatives from the health care chaplaincy. The results of the study show that there can be a need for religion when one is hospitalized, that these patients wish that their religious needs and practices would be respected and facilitated, and that the blurred religious situation in Sweden is prevalent at the hospitals, but the hospitals—being foremost affected by the processes of secularization—have a tendency not to take this into consideration.

Meeting Swedish Health Care System

2014 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 415-431 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ingela Rydström ◽  
Ann-Charlotte Dalheim Englund
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care System ◽  
Swedish Health Care ◽  
Care System

Market-Oriented, Demand-Driven Health Care Reforms and Equity in Health and Health Care Utilization in Sweden

2009 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 271-285 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bo Burström
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Policy ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Health Care System ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
International Comparisons ◽  
Care Utilization ◽  
Health Care Reforms ◽  
Swedish Health Care ◽  
Care System

In international comparisons, the Swedish health care system has been seen to perform well. In recent years, market-oriented, demand-driven health care reforms aimed at free choice of provider by patients and free establishment of doctors are increasingly promoted in Sweden. The stated objective is to improve access and efficiency in health services and to provide more and/or better services for the money. Swedish health policy aims to provide equal access to care, based on equal need. However, the social and economic gradient in disease and ill health does not translate into the same social and economic gradient in demand for health services. A market-oriented, demand-driven health care system runs the risk of defeating the health policy aims and of further increasing gaps between social groups in access and utilization of health care services, to the detriment of those with greater needs, unless it is coupled with need-based allocation of resources and empowerment of these groups.

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