Situating Boundary Work

Chronic Disease Prevention in Danish Hospitals

Bibliographic Data

ID19541286
AuthorsInge Kryger Pedersen (0000-0003-3542-3532, University of Copenhagen, corresponding author)
Year2020
Volume9
Issue3
Publication date2020-05-22
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueProfessions and Professionalism (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1893-1049 • E-ISSN: 1893-1049
PublisherOsloMet - Oslo Metropolitan University (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.7577/pp.3886
OpenAlexW3027407594
LanguageEN
References cited18

This paper investigates how health professions compete and cooperate in addressing emerging local work tasks defined in relation to new globalized health challenges, such as type 2 diabetes. It identifies which professional groups have claimed responsibility for the tasks and by means of which kinds of interactions and infighting. The materials entail workplace-related artefacts and documents; in-depth interviews and extended conversations with health professionals about goals, dilemmas, and practices linked to prevention of lifestyle-related diseases; and site visits at Danish hospitals. Grounding Abbott’s framework of jurisdictions and his meso-level vocabulary in a situated account of professional boundary work, the analysis follows the ways that nurses in particular create, and sometimes stabilize or standardize, techniques for a disease prevention programme less than a decade old. The paper argues that processual theory of boundary work would benefit from grounding in a situated account of forms of professional boundaries within emerging jurisdictional tasks

Boundary-work · Danish · Disease · Family medicine · Health care · Health professionals · Political science · Public relations · Qualitative research · Situated · Social science · Sociology · Vocabulary · Computer Science · Engineering · Health Policy Implementation Science · Health, psychology, and well-being · Law · Medicine · Mental Health and Patient Involvement · Nursing · Psychology · Gerontology