B De Graaff
Biographic Data
| ID | 3582338 |
|---|---|
| NAME | B De Graaff |
| GIVEN NAMES | B |
| FAMILY NAME | De Graaff |
| SIGNATURE | DE GRAAFF B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Erasmus University Rotterdam |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9840-8626 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Sailing between fate and control: Health systems resilience in the Caribbean Netherlands
Small, non-sovereign islands remain largely absent from the health policy and systems research literature, despite facing distinct governance challenges, rooted in logistical challenges, sociogeographical isolation, and post-colonial entanglements. We therefore studied how health system actors on Bonaire, Sint Eustatius, and Saba - three islands and 'special municipalities' of the Netherlands in the Caribbean - enact health systems resilience in …
In a loop of anticipation: The anticipatory practices of MedTech industry actors
It's about the connections we've made with each other: Resilience and risk translation in governing healthcare during the Covid-19 pandemic
In this paper we focus on risk translation in the governing of healthcare during the COVID-19 pandemic. We do so to explore crisis resilience in healthcare systems as a concrete practice. We build in this paper on a multi-sited ethnography of the Dutch crisis-organization in healthcare between March 2020 and August 2022. We zoom-in on regional networks of acute care delivery (ROAZ) during the second year of the pandemic in the Netherlands (from A…
The patient representation struggle during the Covid‐19 pandemic: Missed opportunities for resilient healthcare systems
BACKGROUND: The role of patient participation and representation during crises, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, has been under-researched. Existing studies paint a pessimistic picture of patient representation during the pandemic. However, there are indications that patient representatives have adapted to the new situation and can contribute to the resilience of healthcare systems. This paper aims to further explore the potential contribution of p…
Involving citizens in regulation: A comparative qualitative study of four experimentalist cases of participatory regulation in Dutch health care
The literature on responsive regulation argues that citizens should be involved in regulatory practices to avoid capture between regulator and regulatee. It also argues that including citizens can add an important perspective to regulatory practices. However, we know little about how citizens' perspectives are brought into regulatory practices. This paper draws on existing qualitative research to compare and analyze four cases of experimental par…
Framing the pandemic: Multiplying "crises" in Dutch healthcare governance during the emerging Covid-19 pandemic
In this paper we explore the impact of the emerging COVID-19 pandemic on the governance of healthcare in the Netherlands. In doing so, we re-examine the idea that a crisis necessarily leads to processes of transition and change by focusing on crisis as a specific language of organizing collective action instead. Framing a situation as a crisis of a particular kind allows for specific problem definitions, concurrent solutions and the inclusion and…
Incorporating Public Values Through Multiple Accountability: A Case Study on Quality Regulation of Emergency Care in the Netherlands by an Independent Regulatory Agency
In this paper, we explore how multiple accountability (MA) can enable an independent regulatory agency to deal with multiple conflicting public values in a complex and politically salient decision-making process. We examined the decision-making process of the Dutch National Health Care Institute on quality regulation of emergency care in the Netherlands. Using insights derived from ethnography, document analysis, and interviews, we show that MA r…
Layering risk work amidst an emerging crisis: An ethnographic study on the governance of the Covid-19 pandemic in a university hospital in the Netherlands
The start of the COVID-19 pandemic early 2020 has confronted healthcare sectors with risks and uncertainties on an unprecedented scale in recent history. Healthcare organisations faced acute problems, the answers to which had to be provided, and recalibrated, at short notice and informally. University hospitals played a pivotal role in providing these answers and in (re)calibrating institutional arrangements. Based on ethnographic research in an …
In the works: Patient and public involvement and engagement in healthcare decision‐making
In the September 2019 Special Issue of Health Expectations on Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement (PPIE) initiatives, Hickey and Chambers1 highlighted ‘the importance of [...] promoting PPIE across all areas of health and social care both nationally and internationally’ (p. 607). This resonates with the widespread recognition of PPIE's potential to improve the quality of decision-making and increase fairness, responsiveness and legitima…
Practicing Corona – Towards a research agenda of health policies
As Corona virus is putting a huge stress on healthcare systems around the world, analysts of health policy will have to respond with starting up research on the consequences of current policies. In this paper, we propose an agenda for research of health policy from a governance perspective, focussing on the consequences of decision-making structures and practices, the mediatisation of the pandemic, the organisation of healthcare systems and the r…
Governance and risk in everyday life: Depoliticization and citizens' experiences of cell site deployment in the Netherlands and Southern California
This paper uses multi-level longitudinal mixed-methods to map changes in citizens’ experiences of technological risks and asks if these are influenced by risk governance. We focus on the uncertain health risks of mobile phone cell sites. We quantitatively survey a national level panel of citizens in the Netherlands and make use of mixed-method panels of citizens who are being confronted with siting practices in the Netherlands and Southern Califo…
Involving Patients and Families in the Analysis of Suicides, Suicide Attempts, and Other Sentinel Events in Mental Healthcare: A Qualitative Study in The Netherlands
Involving patients and families in mental healthcare is becoming more commonplace, but little is known about how they are involved in the aftermath of serious adverse events related to quality of care (sentinel events, including suicides). This study explores the role patients and families have in formal processes after sentinel events in Dutch mental healthcare. We analyzed the existing policies of 15 healthcare organizations and spoke with 35 s…
Engaging citizens: Local interactions, policy discourse and courses of protest against mobile phone cell site deployment
This article puts forward an interactionist discourse approach for studying the course of local political protest. We argue that how local policy-makers engage with the (anticipated) demands of citizens and mediate national policy produces distinct framing and feeling rules about potentially controversial issues. These framing and feeling rules open up or close down opportunities for citizen concerns to develop into collective action and policy c…
Biomedical risks and citizenship: Depoliticizing cell site deployment in the Netherlands and Southern California
Cell phone technology has become a ubiquitous quasi-utility worldwide. Meanwhile, controversies around its health risks are continually emerging in locations around the world. In this paper, we argue that the ongoing controversy is primarily the effect of practices that are trying to govern cell site risks, rather than inherent uncertainties or qualities of the technology. We understand this as a process of medicalization that engenders bio-citiz…
‘We are the canary in a coal mine’: Establishing a disease category and a new health risk
This paper analyses the process of establishing a risk object – electromagnetic fields. This example will be used to examine risk categorisation as such, and to explore how individual and collective attempts to establish a new risk interact with health policy. We studied people who claim to suffer from electro-hypersensitivity. We conducted participant observation and repeated interviews with 18 electro-hypersensitivity sufferers, and interviewed…
Framing the pandemic: Multiplying "crises" in Dutch healthcare governance during the emerging Covid-19 pandemic
In this paper we explore the impact of the emerging COVID-19 pandemic on the governance of healthcare in the Netherlands. In doing so, we re-examine the idea that a crisis necessarily leads to processes of transition and change by focusing on crisis as a specific language of organizing collective action instead. Framing a situation as a crisis of a particular kind allows for specific problem definitions, concurrent solutions and the inclusion and…
Involving citizens in regulation: A comparative qualitative study of four experimentalist cases of participatory regulation in Dutch health care
The literature on responsive regulation argues that citizens should be involved in regulatory practices to avoid capture between regulator and regulatee. It also argues that including citizens can add an important perspective to regulatory practices. However, we know little about how citizens' perspectives are brought into regulatory practices. This paper draws on existing qualitative research to compare and analyze four cases of experimental par…
Governance and risk in everyday life: Depoliticization and citizens' experiences of cell site deployment in the Netherlands and Southern California
This paper uses multi-level longitudinal mixed-methods to map changes in citizens’ experiences of technological risks and asks if these are influenced by risk governance. We focus on the uncertain health risks of mobile phone cell sites. We quantitatively survey a national level panel of citizens in the Netherlands and make use of mixed-method panels of citizens who are being confronted with siting practices in the Netherlands and Southern Califo…
Engaging citizens: Local interactions, policy discourse and courses of protest against mobile phone cell site deployment
This article puts forward an interactionist discourse approach for studying the course of local political protest. We argue that how local policy-makers engage with the (anticipated) demands of citizens and mediate national policy produces distinct framing and feeling rules about potentially controversial issues. These framing and feeling rules open up or close down opportunities for citizen concerns to develop into collective action and policy c…
Incorporating Public Values Through Multiple Accountability: A Case Study on Quality Regulation of Emergency Care in the Netherlands by an Independent Regulatory Agency
In this paper, we explore how multiple accountability (MA) can enable an independent regulatory agency to deal with multiple conflicting public values in a complex and politically salient decision-making process. We examined the decision-making process of the Dutch National Health Care Institute on quality regulation of emergency care in the Netherlands. Using insights derived from ethnography, document analysis, and interviews, we show that MA r…
Biomedical risks and citizenship: Depoliticizing cell site deployment in the Netherlands and Southern California
Cell phone technology has become a ubiquitous quasi-utility worldwide. Meanwhile, controversies around its health risks are continually emerging in locations around the world. In this paper, we argue that the ongoing controversy is primarily the effect of practices that are trying to govern cell site risks, rather than inherent uncertainties or qualities of the technology. We understand this as a process of medicalization that engenders bio-citiz…
‘We are the canary in a coal mine’: Establishing a disease category and a new health risk
This paper analyses the process of establishing a risk object – electromagnetic fields. This example will be used to examine risk categorisation as such, and to explore how individual and collective attempts to establish a new risk interact with health policy. We studied people who claim to suffer from electro-hypersensitivity. We conducted participant observation and repeated interviews with 18 electro-hypersensitivity sufferers, and interviewed…
Biomedical risks and citizenship: Depoliticizing cell site deployment in the Netherlands and Southern California
Cell phone technology has become a ubiquitous quasi-utility worldwide. Meanwhile, controversies around its health risks are continually emerging in locations around the world. In this paper, we argue that the ongoing controversy is primarily the effect of practices that are trying to govern cell site risks, rather than inherent uncertainties or qualities of the technology. We understand this as a process of medicalization that engenders bio-citiz…
Engaging citizens: Local interactions, policy discourse and courses of protest against mobile phone cell site deployment
This article puts forward an interactionist discourse approach for studying the course of local political protest. We argue that how local policy-makers engage with the (anticipated) demands of citizens and mediate national policy produces distinct framing and feeling rules about potentially controversial issues. These framing and feeling rules open up or close down opportunities for citizen concerns to develop into collective action and policy c…
Involving Patients and Families in the Analysis of Suicides, Suicide Attempts, and Other Sentinel Events in Mental Healthcare: A Qualitative Study in The Netherlands
Involving patients and families in mental healthcare is becoming more commonplace, but little is known about how they are involved in the aftermath of serious adverse events related to quality of care (sentinel events, including suicides). This study explores the role patients and families have in formal processes after sentinel events in Dutch mental healthcare. We analyzed the existing policies of 15 healthcare organizations and spoke with 35 s…
Governance and risk in everyday life: Depoliticization and citizens' experiences of cell site deployment in the Netherlands and Southern California
This paper uses multi-level longitudinal mixed-methods to map changes in citizens’ experiences of technological risks and asks if these are influenced by risk governance. We focus on the uncertain health risks of mobile phone cell sites. We quantitatively survey a national level panel of citizens in the Netherlands and make use of mixed-method panels of citizens who are being confronted with siting practices in the Netherlands and Southern Califo…
Practicing Corona – Towards a research agenda of health policies
As Corona virus is putting a huge stress on healthcare systems around the world, analysts of health policy will have to respond with starting up research on the consequences of current policies. In this paper, we propose an agenda for research of health policy from a governance perspective, focussing on the consequences of decision-making structures and practices, the mediatisation of the pandemic, the organisation of healthcare systems and the r…
Layering risk work amidst an emerging crisis: An ethnographic study on the governance of the Covid-19 pandemic in a university hospital in the Netherlands
The start of the COVID-19 pandemic early 2020 has confronted healthcare sectors with risks and uncertainties on an unprecedented scale in recent history. Healthcare organisations faced acute problems, the answers to which had to be provided, and recalibrated, at short notice and informally. University hospitals played a pivotal role in providing these answers and in (re)calibrating institutional arrangements. Based on ethnographic research in an …
In the works: Patient and public involvement and engagement in healthcare decision‐making
In the September 2019 Special Issue of Health Expectations on Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement (PPIE) initiatives, Hickey and Chambers1 highlighted ‘the importance of [...] promoting PPIE across all areas of health and social care both nationally and internationally’ (p. 607). This resonates with the widespread recognition of PPIE's potential to improve the quality of decision-making and increase fairness, responsiveness and legitima…
Incorporating Public Values Through Multiple Accountability: A Case Study on Quality Regulation of Emergency Care in the Netherlands by an Independent Regulatory Agency
In this paper, we explore how multiple accountability (MA) can enable an independent regulatory agency to deal with multiple conflicting public values in a complex and politically salient decision-making process. We examined the decision-making process of the Dutch National Health Care Institute on quality regulation of emergency care in the Netherlands. Using insights derived from ethnography, document analysis, and interviews, we show that MA r…
Framing the pandemic: Multiplying "crises" in Dutch healthcare governance during the emerging Covid-19 pandemic
In this paper we explore the impact of the emerging COVID-19 pandemic on the governance of healthcare in the Netherlands. In doing so, we re-examine the idea that a crisis necessarily leads to processes of transition and change by focusing on crisis as a specific language of organizing collective action instead. Framing a situation as a crisis of a particular kind allows for specific problem definitions, concurrent solutions and the inclusion and…
The patient representation struggle during the Covid‐19 pandemic: Missed opportunities for resilient healthcare systems
BACKGROUND: The role of patient participation and representation during crises, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, has been under-researched. Existing studies paint a pessimistic picture of patient representation during the pandemic. However, there are indications that patient representatives have adapted to the new situation and can contribute to the resilience of healthcare systems. This paper aims to further explore the potential contribution of p…
Involving citizens in regulation: A comparative qualitative study of four experimentalist cases of participatory regulation in Dutch health care
The literature on responsive regulation argues that citizens should be involved in regulatory practices to avoid capture between regulator and regulatee. It also argues that including citizens can add an important perspective to regulatory practices. However, we know little about how citizens' perspectives are brought into regulatory practices. This paper draws on existing qualitative research to compare and analyze four cases of experimental par…
In a loop of anticipation: The anticipatory practices of MedTech industry actors
It's about the connections we've made with each other: Resilience and risk translation in governing healthcare during the Covid-19 pandemic
In this paper we focus on risk translation in the governing of healthcare during the COVID-19 pandemic. We do so to explore crisis resilience in healthcare systems as a concrete practice. We build in this paper on a multi-sited ethnography of the Dutch crisis-organization in healthcare between March 2020 and August 2022. We zoom-in on regional networks of acute care delivery (ROAZ) during the second year of the pandemic in the Netherlands (from A…
Sailing between fate and control: Health systems resilience in the Caribbean Netherlands
Small, non-sovereign islands remain largely absent from the health policy and systems research literature, despite facing distinct governance challenges, rooted in logistical challenges, sociogeographical isolation, and post-colonial entanglements. We therefore studied how health system actors on Bonaire, Sint Eustatius, and Saba - three islands and 'special municipalities' of the Netherlands in the Caribbean - enact health systems resilience in …
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