Establishing Individual Care Plans for Rehabilitation Patients
Traces of Self-Targeting in the Norwegian Universal Welfare State
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12965794 |
|---|---|
| Authors | I Harsløf (0000-0002-8459-6352), Mirela Slomic (0000-0001-5054-3925), Ole Kristian Sandnes Håvold |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 24-47 |
| Publication date | 2019-05-14 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Nordic Journal of Social Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1892-2783 • E-ISSN: 1892-2783 |
| Publisher | Scandinavian University Press (PUBLISHER • NO) |
| DOI | 10.7577/njsr.2686 |
| OpenAlex | W2952194035 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 33 |
Several countries have introduced devices for coordination of complicated individual cases across care, health and welfare services. This study examined one such device: the individual care plan (ICP), introduced in Norway in 2001 to enhance user involvement and coordination across sectors and service providers. Despite strong political imperatives, however, ICPs have remained significantly underused. To understand why, this study investigated the experiences with ICPs among staff in municipal coordinating units, tasked with organising rehabilitation efforts and caseworkers in local labour and welfare services. In focus groups, participants discussed the fictitious vignette of a patient with traumatic brain injury, a person clearly within the ICP target group. They praised ICPs for advancing the rehabilitation process but acknowledged that they were applied too rarely. Through abductive-retroductive recontextualisation, this study identified a practice of de-facto self-targeting: in some municipalities, patients had to request ICPs themselves. We argue that this mechanism may have emerged from ambiguous propensities of rehabilitation, simultaneously emphasising needs and potentials, and ultimately from ambiguities in the Norwegian welfare model balancing universalism and local autonomy
Autonomy · Business · Economic growth · Economics · Health care · Norwegian · Physical therapy · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Service (business · Service provider · Universalism · Welfare · Welfare state · Education, Healthcare and Sociology Research · Medicine · Mental Health and Patient Involvement · Psychology · Public Policy and Administration Research · Marketing · Rehabilitation
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| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |