Runo Axelsson
Biographic Data
| ID | 4175056 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Runo Axelsson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Runo |
| FAMILY NAME | Axelsson |
| SIGNATURE | AXELSSON R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Nordic School of Public Health |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6026-5559 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 70 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Interorganizational Collaboration in Transitional Care – A Study of a Post-Discharge Programme for Elderly Patients
The collaboration had mainly positive impacts on the quality of patient care and the economic efficiency of elderly care in the municipality. However, the board of the health enterprise decided to close down the intermediate ward
In the Eye of The Storm
Introduction: In 2013 the ‘Region of North-Jutland’ in Denmark started a major reorganization of their hospitals. In order to improve the quality of care for their patients, the reorganization was focusing on the coordination of patient flows through the hospitals and also between the hospitals and the primary sector.The new organization of the hospitals can be regarded as a sort of matrix structure combining a vertical integration of clinical de…
Organizing integrated care in a university hospital
It seems that integrated care can be a relevant concept for a hospital. Although the organizational models may challenge established professional boundaries and financial control systems, this concept can be a more promising way to improve the quality of care than the industrial models that have been imported into health care. This application of the concept may also contribute to widen the field of integrated care
Organising integration – between fragmentation and mergers
In Sweden, as in many other countries, there has been a succession of trends in the organisation of health care and other welfare services. These trends have had different implications for the integration of services in the health and welfare system
Inter-organizational collaboration at the local level—models and experiences
Integration and collaboration has been an important strategy for development of the health and welfare system in Sweden since the 1960s. This development has been intensified during the 1990s and the first decade of the 2000s. This key note speech will focus on the development of interorganizational collaboration between health care, social service and other welfare services on the local level of the Swedish society. There will be examples from c…
A decade of integration and collaboration
Local health care meant that the chains of care and other forms of integration and collaboration became embedded in a more integrative context. At the same time, however, policy makers have promoted free patient choice in primary health care and also mergers of hospitals and clinical departments. These policies tend to fragment the provision of health care and have an adverse effect on the development of integrated care. As a counterbalance, more…
Organizational approaches to collaboration in vocational rehabilitation − An international literature review
There is no optimal model of collaboration to be applied everywhere, but one model could be more appropriate than others in a certain context. More research is needed to compare different models and to see whether they are applicable also in other fields of collaboration inside or outside the welfare system
Evaluating intersectoral collaboration
The model developed in this study is an important step towards an assessment of service integration from the perspective of the service users. It needs to be further refined, however, before it can be used in other evaluations of collaboration in the provision of integrated welfare services
Barriers of inter-organisational integration in vocational rehabilitation
The barriers found are all related partly to organisational change in general and partly to the specific development of organisational integration. Prioritising of own organisation led to flaws in communication, which in turn led to a high degree of uncertainty within the project. This can be seen as a circular relationship, since uncertainty might increase focus on own organisation and lack of communication. A way to overcome these barriers woul…
Integration and collaboration in public health—a conceptual framework
With the increasing differentiation of organisations involved in the pursuit of public health, there is also a growing need for inter-organisational integration. Starting from the concepts of differentiation and integration, this article is attempting a theoretical reconstruction based on published research on inter-organisational integration in public health and related welfare services. Different forms of integration are defined and related to …
Evaluating integrated health care
One of the main advantages with the model is that it includes optimum ranks of integration beside actual ranks. The optimum integration rank between two units is depending on the needs of both differentiation and integration
Inter-organisational integration for rehabilitation in Sweden – variation in views on long-term goals
There exists a risk that divergent views in the Steering Committee concerning the future direction of the collaboration may send mixed messages providing uneven support for the professionals within the different organisations. The study points to the importance of having a common vision and common, well-defined goals at the outset of a collaborative project in order to support micro-level cooperation
Administrative Challenges Associated for Social Security in Connection with Accession to the EU
Based on a qualitative empirical study, this article describes the structure of the social security system in Slovenia and analyses the administrative challenges of the approaching EU accession. A mixed picture emerges from this study. The institutions in the health and pension sectors seem to be well prepared for the accession, while the institutions in the employment and family sectors need to develop both their internal organisation and their …
Institutional Developments in the Russian System of Social Security
In the course of the present transition in Russian society, a new system of social security has been developed. The previous Soviet system has been replaced by a system of four more or less independent social funds, covering the main branches of social security. These funds are supposed to be run according to insurance principles and to be financed by contributions, mainly from employers. Given the difficult economic and social situation of the c…
Decision-making and Organizational Turbulence
A theoretical model of organizational decision-making in turbulent situa tions is developed on the basis of the organizational literature, and illus trated empirically from a study of Swedish educational organizations. The model is formulated under an assumption of rationality, but quite a differ ent kind of rationality from that in traditional theories of decision-making. The empirical illustrations are multimethodological, and include a com par…
Evaluating integrated health care
One of the main advantages with the model is that it includes optimum ranks of integration beside actual ranks. The optimum integration rank between two units is depending on the needs of both differentiation and integration
Barriers of inter-organisational integration in vocational rehabilitation
The barriers found are all related partly to organisational change in general and partly to the specific development of organisational integration. Prioritising of own organisation led to flaws in communication, which in turn led to a high degree of uncertainty within the project. This can be seen as a circular relationship, since uncertainty might increase focus on own organisation and lack of communication. A way to overcome these barriers woul…
A decade of integration and collaboration
Local health care meant that the chains of care and other forms of integration and collaboration became embedded in a more integrative context. At the same time, however, policy makers have promoted free patient choice in primary health care and also mergers of hospitals and clinical departments. These policies tend to fragment the provision of health care and have an adverse effect on the development of integrated care. As a counterbalance, more…
Inter-organisational integration for rehabilitation in Sweden – variation in views on long-term goals
There exists a risk that divergent views in the Steering Committee concerning the future direction of the collaboration may send mixed messages providing uneven support for the professionals within the different organisations. The study points to the importance of having a common vision and common, well-defined goals at the outset of a collaborative project in order to support micro-level cooperation
Organizational approaches to collaboration in vocational rehabilitation − An international literature review
There is no optimal model of collaboration to be applied everywhere, but one model could be more appropriate than others in a certain context. More research is needed to compare different models and to see whether they are applicable also in other fields of collaboration inside or outside the welfare system
Decision-making and Organizational Turbulence
A theoretical model of organizational decision-making in turbulent situa tions is developed on the basis of the organizational literature, and illus trated empirically from a study of Swedish educational organizations. The model is formulated under an assumption of rationality, but quite a differ ent kind of rationality from that in traditional theories of decision-making. The empirical illustrations are multimethodological, and include a com par…
Evaluating intersectoral collaboration
The model developed in this study is an important step towards an assessment of service integration from the perspective of the service users. It needs to be further refined, however, before it can be used in other evaluations of collaboration in the provision of integrated welfare services
Organizing integrated care in a university hospital
It seems that integrated care can be a relevant concept for a hospital. Although the organizational models may challenge established professional boundaries and financial control systems, this concept can be a more promising way to improve the quality of care than the industrial models that have been imported into health care. This application of the concept may also contribute to widen the field of integrated care
Institutional Developments in the Russian System of Social Security
In the course of the present transition in Russian society, a new system of social security has been developed. The previous Soviet system has been replaced by a system of four more or less independent social funds, covering the main branches of social security. These funds are supposed to be run according to insurance principles and to be financed by contributions, mainly from employers. Given the difficult economic and social situation of the c…
Decision-making and Organizational Turbulence
A theoretical model of organizational decision-making in turbulent situa tions is developed on the basis of the organizational literature, and illus trated empirically from a study of Swedish educational organizations. The model is formulated under an assumption of rationality, but quite a differ ent kind of rationality from that in traditional theories of decision-making. The empirical illustrations are multimethodological, and include a com par…
Administrative Challenges Associated for Social Security in Connection with Accession to the EU
Based on a qualitative empirical study, this article describes the structure of the social security system in Slovenia and analyses the administrative challenges of the approaching EU accession. A mixed picture emerges from this study. The institutions in the health and pension sectors seem to be well prepared for the accession, while the institutions in the employment and family sectors need to develop both their internal organisation and their …
Institutional Developments in the Russian System of Social Security
In the course of the present transition in Russian society, a new system of social security has been developed. The previous Soviet system has been replaced by a system of four more or less independent social funds, covering the main branches of social security. These funds are supposed to be run according to insurance principles and to be financed by contributions, mainly from employers. Given the difficult economic and social situation of the c…
Inter-organisational integration for rehabilitation in Sweden – variation in views on long-term goals
There exists a risk that divergent views in the Steering Committee concerning the future direction of the collaboration may send mixed messages providing uneven support for the professionals within the different organisations. The study points to the importance of having a common vision and common, well-defined goals at the outset of a collaborative project in order to support micro-level cooperation
Evaluating integrated health care
One of the main advantages with the model is that it includes optimum ranks of integration beside actual ranks. The optimum integration rank between two units is depending on the needs of both differentiation and integration
Integration and collaboration in public health—a conceptual framework
With the increasing differentiation of organisations involved in the pursuit of public health, there is also a growing need for inter-organisational integration. Starting from the concepts of differentiation and integration, this article is attempting a theoretical reconstruction based on published research on inter-organisational integration in public health and related welfare services. Different forms of integration are defined and related to …
Barriers of inter-organisational integration in vocational rehabilitation
The barriers found are all related partly to organisational change in general and partly to the specific development of organisational integration. Prioritising of own organisation led to flaws in communication, which in turn led to a high degree of uncertainty within the project. This can be seen as a circular relationship, since uncertainty might increase focus on own organisation and lack of communication. A way to overcome these barriers woul…
Evaluating intersectoral collaboration
The model developed in this study is an important step towards an assessment of service integration from the perspective of the service users. It needs to be further refined, however, before it can be used in other evaluations of collaboration in the provision of integrated welfare services
A decade of integration and collaboration
Local health care meant that the chains of care and other forms of integration and collaboration became embedded in a more integrative context. At the same time, however, policy makers have promoted free patient choice in primary health care and also mergers of hospitals and clinical departments. These policies tend to fragment the provision of health care and have an adverse effect on the development of integrated care. As a counterbalance, more…
Organizational approaches to collaboration in vocational rehabilitation − An international literature review
There is no optimal model of collaboration to be applied everywhere, but one model could be more appropriate than others in a certain context. More research is needed to compare different models and to see whether they are applicable also in other fields of collaboration inside or outside the welfare system
Inter-organizational collaboration at the local level—models and experiences
Integration and collaboration has been an important strategy for development of the health and welfare system in Sweden since the 1960s. This development has been intensified during the 1990s and the first decade of the 2000s. This key note speech will focus on the development of interorganizational collaboration between health care, social service and other welfare services on the local level of the Swedish society. There will be examples from c…
Organising integration – between fragmentation and mergers
In Sweden, as in many other countries, there has been a succession of trends in the organisation of health care and other welfare services. These trends have had different implications for the integration of services in the health and welfare system
Organizing integrated care in a university hospital
It seems that integrated care can be a relevant concept for a hospital. Although the organizational models may challenge established professional boundaries and financial control systems, this concept can be a more promising way to improve the quality of care than the industrial models that have been imported into health care. This application of the concept may also contribute to widen the field of integrated care
Interorganizational Collaboration in Transitional Care – A Study of a Post-Discharge Programme for Elderly Patients
The collaboration had mainly positive impacts on the quality of patient care and the economic efficiency of elderly care in the municipality. However, the board of the health enterprise decided to close down the intermediate ward
In the Eye of The Storm
Introduction: In 2013 the ‘Region of North-Jutland’ in Denmark started a major reorganization of their hospitals. In order to improve the quality of care for their patients, the reorganization was focusing on the coordination of patient flows through the hospitals and also between the hospitals and the primary sector.The new organization of the hospitals can be regarded as a sort of matrix structure combining a vertical integration of clinical de…
Business (11 works) · Political science (11 works) · Interprofessional Education and Collaboration (10 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Knowledge management (7 works) · Medicine (7 works) · Economics (6 works) · Health care (6 works) · Integrated care (6 works)