Arne Melberg
Biographic Data
| ID | 1090469 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Arne Melberg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Arne |
| FAMILY NAME | Melberg |
| SIGNATURE | MELBERG A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bergen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0820-8813 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Negotiating clinical practice guidelines
In all societies, demand for healthcare exceeds available resources. When resources for healthcare are limited, clinicians inevitably engage in distributive decisions that affect the care of individual patients: so-called bedside rationing. Clinical practice guidelines intend to steer bedside rationing through transparent eligibility criteria. Still, the distributive challenge is exacerbated by increasingly available high-cost treatments for rare…
Legal issues in the implementation of Maternal Death Surveillance and Response
The Maternal Death Surveillance and Response (MDSR) system is designed to continuously identify and review all maternal deaths. It aims to help countries understand the scale and distribution of maternal deaths, identify their causes, and inform corrective measures to address the challenge. Despite the growing adoption of the MDSR by numerous low- or middle-income countries, its implementation faces various challenges, including legal ones. This …
Open and opaque? The performativity of open priorities in a Norwegian hospital
Being open about priority-setting decisions is a central element of frameworks enhancing procedural fairness. While challenges in implementing priority-setting frameworks in general have been reported, few studies have empirically examined how the concept of openness is understood and enacted in the day-to-day functioning of hospitals. This paper explores the operationalisation of the policy of "open priorities", based on long-term ethnographic f…
Juridification of maternal deaths in Ethiopia
Juridification of maternal health care is on the rise globally, but little is known about its manifestations in resource constrained settings in sub-Saharan Africa. The Maternal and Perinatal Death Surveillance and Response (MPDSR) system is implemented in Ethiopia to record and review all maternal and perinatal deaths, but underreporting of deaths remains a major implementation challenge. Fear of blame and malpractice litigation among health wor…
Maternal deaths should simply be 0’
The Maternal Death Surveillance and Response system (MDSR) was implemented in Ethiopia in 2013 to record and review maternal deaths. The overall aim of the system is to identify and address gaps in order to prevent future death but, to date, around 10% of the expected number of deaths are reported. This article examines practices and reasoning involved in maternal death reporting and review practices in Ethiopia, building on the concept of 'pract…
Autarcie/Autarky
Policy, paperwork and 'postographs
Targets and indicators set at the global level are powerful tools that govern health systems in low-income countries. Skilled birth attendance at a health facility is an important indicator for monitoring maternal mortality reduction worldwide. This paper examines how health workers negotiate policy implementation through the translation of clinical care into registries and reports. It does so by analysing the links between the global policy of i…
Benjamin's Reflection
Reflection is primarily the of thinking.' This gnomic statement comes early in Walter Benjamin's first major academic effort, The Concept of [Art]Criticism in German Romanticism from 1920, and my intention here is to develop some possible meanings of this statement, hopefully in the spirit of the very same Benjamin, who some pages further on talks of reflection as the of (28,30). Connections will-firstly-be made with concepts or configurations in…
"Repetition (In the Kierkegaardian Sense of the Term)"
Kierkegaard published Repetition in 1843; his pseudonym this time was Constantin Constantius. The Danish title is Gjentagelsen, meaning literally taking back. It is not easy to decide what sort of text this is: a narration or a philosophical essay or perhaps an ironic mixture of both. Kierkegaard has Constantin make fun of this problematic in a sort of appendix, where he turns to real reader of this book, called Mr. X, Esq.1 This real and ideal r…
Policy, paperwork and 'postographs
Targets and indicators set at the global level are powerful tools that govern health systems in low-income countries. Skilled birth attendance at a health facility is an important indicator for monitoring maternal mortality reduction worldwide. This paper examines how health workers negotiate policy implementation through the translation of clinical care into registries and reports. It does so by analysing the links between the global policy of i…
Open and opaque? The performativity of open priorities in a Norwegian hospital
Being open about priority-setting decisions is a central element of frameworks enhancing procedural fairness. While challenges in implementing priority-setting frameworks in general have been reported, few studies have empirically examined how the concept of openness is understood and enacted in the day-to-day functioning of hospitals. This paper explores the operationalisation of the policy of "open priorities", based on long-term ethnographic f…
"Repetition (In the Kierkegaardian Sense of the Term)"
Kierkegaard published Repetition in 1843; his pseudonym this time was Constantin Constantius. The Danish title is Gjentagelsen, meaning literally taking back. It is not easy to decide what sort of text this is: a narration or a philosophical essay or perhaps an ironic mixture of both. Kierkegaard has Constantin make fun of this problematic in a sort of appendix, where he turns to real reader of this book, called Mr. X, Esq.1 This real and ideal r…
Benjamin's Reflection
Reflection is primarily the of thinking.' This gnomic statement comes early in Walter Benjamin's first major academic effort, The Concept of [Art]Criticism in German Romanticism from 1920, and my intention here is to develop some possible meanings of this statement, hopefully in the spirit of the very same Benjamin, who some pages further on talks of reflection as the of (28,30). Connections will-firstly-be made with concepts or configurations in…
Autarcie/Autarky
Policy, paperwork and 'postographs
Targets and indicators set at the global level are powerful tools that govern health systems in low-income countries. Skilled birth attendance at a health facility is an important indicator for monitoring maternal mortality reduction worldwide. This paper examines how health workers negotiate policy implementation through the translation of clinical care into registries and reports. It does so by analysing the links between the global policy of i…
Maternal deaths should simply be 0’
The Maternal Death Surveillance and Response system (MDSR) was implemented in Ethiopia in 2013 to record and review maternal deaths. The overall aim of the system is to identify and address gaps in order to prevent future death but, to date, around 10% of the expected number of deaths are reported. This article examines practices and reasoning involved in maternal death reporting and review practices in Ethiopia, building on the concept of 'pract…
Juridification of maternal deaths in Ethiopia
Juridification of maternal health care is on the rise globally, but little is known about its manifestations in resource constrained settings in sub-Saharan Africa. The Maternal and Perinatal Death Surveillance and Response (MPDSR) system is implemented in Ethiopia to record and review all maternal and perinatal deaths, but underreporting of deaths remains a major implementation challenge. Fear of blame and malpractice litigation among health wor…
Legal issues in the implementation of Maternal Death Surveillance and Response
The Maternal Death Surveillance and Response (MDSR) system is designed to continuously identify and review all maternal deaths. It aims to help countries understand the scale and distribution of maternal deaths, identify their causes, and inform corrective measures to address the challenge. Despite the growing adoption of the MDSR by numerous low- or middle-income countries, its implementation faces various challenges, including legal ones. This …
Open and opaque? The performativity of open priorities in a Norwegian hospital
Being open about priority-setting decisions is a central element of frameworks enhancing procedural fairness. While challenges in implementing priority-setting frameworks in general have been reported, few studies have empirically examined how the concept of openness is understood and enacted in the day-to-day functioning of hospitals. This paper explores the operationalisation of the policy of "open priorities", based on long-term ethnographic f…
Negotiating clinical practice guidelines
In all societies, demand for healthcare exceeds available resources. When resources for healthcare are limited, clinicians inevitably engage in distributive decisions that affect the care of individual patients: so-called bedside rationing. Clinical practice guidelines intend to steer bedside rationing through transparent eligibility criteria. Still, the distributive challenge is exacerbated by increasingly available high-cost treatments for rare…
Medicine (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Global Maternal and Child Health (4 works) · Health care (4 works) · Nursing (4 works) · Accountability (3 works) · Healthcare Systems and Reforms (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Public health (3 works)