Kerstin Stenius
Biographic Data
| ID | 4174310 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kerstin Stenius |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kerstin |
| FAMILY NAME | Stenius |
| SIGNATURE | STENIUS K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Helsinki |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8392-4206 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The new privatized market: A question of ideology or pragmatism within the Swedish addiction treatment system
Given its traditions of universal welfarism and social democracy, Sweden had already scored unexpectedly high on New Public Management by the 1980s. Health and welfare services remain primarily tax‐funded, but the production of care is increasingly transferred to a competitive quasi‐market. To what extent can this development be understood in terms of right‐wing governments, and to what extent in terms of other, socioeconomic and pragmatic factor…
Conceptual carpentry as problem handling: The case of drugs and coercive treatment in social democratic welfare regimes
Problematic Intoxications”: Conceptualizing “Abuse” of Illicit Drugs in Postwar Social Treatment Legislation in Finland
This article analyzes conceptualizations of “drug abuse” in the Finnish postwar parliamentary committees and debates that, in 1961, resulted in the first law for treatment of both alcohol and drug abuse problems. How was the abuse of narcotic drugs viewed as a new problem that merited new solutions? How was abuse of drugs regarded as similar to abuse of alcohol? And how were the conceptual problems solved in this process? The analysis is influenc…
For the Marginalized or for the Integrated? A Comparative Study of Addiction Treatment Systems in Sweden and the United States
This article compares the roles of two different addiction treatment systems, one in Stockholm county, surrounding the Swedish capital, and the other in a county in Northern California, in relation to marginalized and socially integrated misusers. It investigates: (a) whether the Swedish treatment system, as suspected, treats more marginalized clients than the American system, (b) where in the two systems those with stronger or weaker social ties…
Mental Health Problems of New Ethnic Min Orities in Sweden
Immigrant mental patients attending the psychiatric clinic of Vasterås Central Hospital in Central Sweden were compared with Swedish patients at the samt clinic as regards to diagnosis, expressed problems, amount of care, and social charac teristics. Propensity to seek public psychiatric treatment was lower than among Swedes. It was the higher the greater the geographical and cultural distance between Sweden and their country ot ongin is: immigra…
For the Marginalized or for the Integrated? A Comparative Study of Addiction Treatment Systems in Sweden and the United States
This article compares the roles of two different addiction treatment systems, one in Stockholm county, surrounding the Swedish capital, and the other in a county in Northern California, in relation to marginalized and socially integrated misusers. It investigates: (a) whether the Swedish treatment system, as suspected, treats more marginalized clients than the American system, (b) where in the two systems those with stronger or weaker social ties…
The new privatized market: A question of ideology or pragmatism within the Swedish addiction treatment system
Given its traditions of universal welfarism and social democracy, Sweden had already scored unexpectedly high on New Public Management by the 1980s. Health and welfare services remain primarily tax‐funded, but the production of care is increasingly transferred to a competitive quasi‐market. To what extent can this development be understood in terms of right‐wing governments, and to what extent in terms of other, socioeconomic and pragmatic factor…
Problematic Intoxications”: Conceptualizing “Abuse” of Illicit Drugs in Postwar Social Treatment Legislation in Finland
This article analyzes conceptualizations of “drug abuse” in the Finnish postwar parliamentary committees and debates that, in 1961, resulted in the first law for treatment of both alcohol and drug abuse problems. How was the abuse of narcotic drugs viewed as a new problem that merited new solutions? How was abuse of drugs regarded as similar to abuse of alcohol? And how were the conceptual problems solved in this process? The analysis is influenc…
Mental Health Problems of New Ethnic Min Orities in Sweden
Immigrant mental patients attending the psychiatric clinic of Vasterås Central Hospital in Central Sweden were compared with Swedish patients at the samt clinic as regards to diagnosis, expressed problems, amount of care, and social charac teristics. Propensity to seek public psychiatric treatment was lower than among Swedes. It was the higher the greater the geographical and cultural distance between Sweden and their country ot ongin is: immigra…
Mental Health Problems of New Ethnic Min Orities in Sweden
Immigrant mental patients attending the psychiatric clinic of Vasterås Central Hospital in Central Sweden were compared with Swedish patients at the samt clinic as regards to diagnosis, expressed problems, amount of care, and social charac teristics. Propensity to seek public psychiatric treatment was lower than among Swedes. It was the higher the greater the geographical and cultural distance between Sweden and their country ot ongin is: immigra…
For the Marginalized or for the Integrated? A Comparative Study of Addiction Treatment Systems in Sweden and the United States
This article compares the roles of two different addiction treatment systems, one in Stockholm county, surrounding the Swedish capital, and the other in a county in Northern California, in relation to marginalized and socially integrated misusers. It investigates: (a) whether the Swedish treatment system, as suspected, treats more marginalized clients than the American system, (b) where in the two systems those with stronger or weaker social ties…
Problematic Intoxications”: Conceptualizing “Abuse” of Illicit Drugs in Postwar Social Treatment Legislation in Finland
This article analyzes conceptualizations of “drug abuse” in the Finnish postwar parliamentary committees and debates that, in 1961, resulted in the first law for treatment of both alcohol and drug abuse problems. How was the abuse of narcotic drugs viewed as a new problem that merited new solutions? How was abuse of drugs regarded as similar to abuse of alcohol? And how were the conceptual problems solved in this process? The analysis is influenc…
Conceptual carpentry as problem handling: The case of drugs and coercive treatment in social democratic welfare regimes
The new privatized market: A question of ideology or pragmatism within the Swedish addiction treatment system
Given its traditions of universal welfarism and social democracy, Sweden had already scored unexpectedly high on New Public Management by the 1980s. Health and welfare services remain primarily tax‐funded, but the production of care is increasingly transferred to a competitive quasi‐market. To what extent can this development be understood in terms of right‐wing governments, and to what extent in terms of other, socioeconomic and pragmatic factor…
Sociology (5 works) · Political science (3 works) · Psychiatry (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Law (2 works) · Legislation (2 works) · Medicine (2 works) · Population (2 works) · Schizophrenia research and treatment (2 works) · Social science (2 works)