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Can bureaucrats order public health? The case of Norway
2013
Introduction: The implementation of a new structural reform, the Coordination Reform, prioritizing a new public health agenda, was initiated to develop a more decentralized, integrated health care system in Norway in 2012. The same year, new health legislation was implemented and due to the new Public Health Act the responsibility for implementing a new public health agenda was decentralized to the local level. Historically, due to lack of funding – these issues have got low priority among local authorities. The new public health legislation reflects a shift in policy focus from treatment to illness prevention – where planning and partnership among primary end specialist health care, as wel…
Erratum to: ‘A cost and performance comparison of Public Private Partnership and public hospitals in Spain’
2016
Public-private partnership (PPP) initiatives are extending around the world, especially in Europe, as an innovation to traditional public health systems, with the intention of making them more efficient.There is a varied range of PPP models with different degrees of responsibility from simple public sector contracts with the private, up to the complete privatisation of the service. As such, we may say the involvement of the private sector embraces the development, financing and provision of public infrastructures and delivery services.In this paper, one of the oldest PPP initiatives developed in Spain and transferred to other European and Latin American countries is evaluated for first time…
The Rockefeller Foundation and the League of Nations: Public Health in Europe (1920-1945)
2021
The Rockefeller Foundation (RF) and the League of Nations (LON) played a fundamental role in stabilization policies during the interwar period. Public health became essential in this context due to the immediate consequences of the war, the post-war economic crisis and the Great Depression. RF and LON became the cornerstone of international action in several fields: epidemics, famine, malnutrition, infectious diseases, infant mortality, drug abuse, biological and dietary standard-setting, epidemiological records, public health policies and professionalization. In the shaping international health expertise, LON and RF collaboration was extremely important, in terms of determining goals and p…
Public Health Policy to Tackle Social Health Inequalities: A Balancing Act Between Competing Institutional Logics
2020
Kvale and colleagues examine the logics of Norwegian government initiatives to respond to social inequalities in health. Whereas the individualist logic favors bounded and specialized measures and organization, the collectivist logic favors broad approaches and organizational coordination. A content analysis of Norwegian health policy documents between 2003 and 2017 shows how such specialized and integrative measures and structures are alternately introduced and hence create a pattern of priorities to tackle public health challenges alternating between a collectivist and an individualist logic. They argue that reform of service coordination to tackle social inequalities in health requires a…
Community Care in Taiwan
2004
SUMMARY This article explores the policy definitions and the funder roles of central and local governments in community care in Taiwan. The notion of community care has been adopted in Taiwan following the model of Hong Kong but the main question of the article is whether this has resulted in actual service provisions at the community level, forming an alternative to institutional care. The data has been collected from several sources: policy documents, official statistics, surveys, general reports, funding provision reports, and empirical studies. The results show that neither central nor local authorities are seriously involved in caring for elderly people or persons with disabilities in …
The division of domestic work among dual-career and other dual-earner couples in Finland
2015
This study compares the division of domestic work among dual-career and other dual-earner couples. We examine whether gender attitudes, relative resources and working time explain the differences between dual-career and other dual-earner couples. We define dual-career couples as those in which both spouses are professionals and/or managers. The division of housework is important for these couples because of the intense pressures of work. We hypothesise that domestic work is more equally shared among dual-career couples than among other dual-earner couples. The quantitative analyses are based on the Finnish data from the 2010 European Social Survey (N = 493). The qualitative data consist of …
Le numérique à l’université : facteur explicatif des méthodes pédagogiques ?
2018
Cet article a une double ambition. Il vise premièrement à mettre l’accent sur les méthodes pédagogiques déployées à l’université par les enseignants en cours magistral et en travaux pratiques et travaux dirigés. Il s’intéresse dans un second temps à l’utilisation du numérique par les enseignants, pendant et en dehors des heures de cours, comme facteur explicatif des méthodes pédagogiques mises en place. Ainsi, à partir des données recueillies au travers une enquête empirique menée auprès d’un échantillon composé de 248 enseignants d’une université française, nous proposons une description des méthodes pédagogiques mobilisées par ces derniers. Puis, nous avons construit des modèles de régres…
Autonomy and Agency
2021
This chapter reviews autonomy and agency as related to second language (L2) learner and teacher psychology. It discusses the significance of the two constructs in understanding the personal, yet socially mediated nature of L2 learning and teaching processes. Psychology and education seem to be the main disciplines that have influenced developments in fostering on autonomy in second language acquisition (SLA). Research on autonomy has typically been conducted on the initiative of a teacher or groups of teachers working in their specific educational contexts and with their specific groups of students. Compared to agency, autonomy has had a much longer history in SLA, and it has been researche…
Web social et multimédia : propriétés d'une relation symbiotique
2011
International audience; Les notions inhérentes aux principes du web social placent les contenus multimédias au cÉur de nouvelles pratiques communicationnelles. Les relations entre les nouveaux espaces de médiation ouverts par le web 2.0 et l'univers du multimédia ne s'inscrivent pas simplement dans un rapport linéaire et séquentiel de transfert d'innovations mais procèdent davantage d'une relation symbiotique aux bénéfices multiples. Dans une première partie nous mettrons en exergue les spécificités de ces relations puis nous questionnerons les nouveaux usages et les nouvelles pratiques qu'elles induisent. Dans une seconde partie, nous présenterons un ensemble de résultats obtenus suite à u…