The latent function of 'responsibility for one's health' in Swedish healthcare priority-setting
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3610293 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Werner Schirmer (0000-0002-3262-5932, Uppsala University), Dimitris Michailakis (0000-0002-1201-1175, Linköping University) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 36-46 |
| Publication date | 2012-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Health Sociology Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1446-1242 • E-ISSN: 1839-3551 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.5172/hesr.2012.21.1.36 |
| OpenAlex | W4232272779 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 21 |
Applying Luhmanns theoretical framework, this article analyses the function of the notion responsibility for ones health in prioritisation in Swedish healthcare. A document called Ethical Platform was adopted in 1997 in order to guide decisions about prioritisation. Evaluations deemed it a failure. Against its official purpose, we argue that this document is not a failure as it has the latent function of protecting the credibility of the self-description of the Swedish political system as a highly inclusive and caring welfare-state. Since prioritisation implies exclusion it poses a threat for this self-description. less thanbrgreater than less thanbrgreater thanThe responsibility principle, suggested in 2007 as an improvement for the platform, has the latent function of helping overcoming the contradiction between the self-description of the welfare-state (inclusion) and prioritisation (exclusion). While inclusion into healthcare is still offered for everybody (respect), this right becomes conditional when citizens are regarded as agents who account for their unhealthy lifestyle (responsibility)
Contradiction · Credibility · Epistemology · Function (biology · Health care · Inclusion (mineral · Inclusion–exclusion principle · Law and economics · Political science · Politics · Project commissioning · Public relations · Publishing · Social science · Sociology · Welfare · Ethics in medical practice · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life · Healthcare cost, quality, practices · Law · Medicine · Nursing · Weber, Simmel, Sociological Theory
Funktionale Methode und Systemtheorie
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Funktion und Kausalität
Modernization, Cultural Change, and Democracy
Grundlagen der soziologischen Theorie
Personal and Social Responsibility for Health
Political Theory in the Welfare State
Selbstbeschreibung und Fremdbeschreibung
Soziologische Aufklärung / 2 Aufsätze zur Theorie der Gesellschaft
Globalization or World society
Function and Cause
The political economy of responsibility in health and illness
The Political Economy of Federalism
Respect and agency
The responsibility principle. Contradictions of priority-setting in Swedish healthcare
Agents of their health? How the Swedish welfare state introduces expectations of individual responsibility
The 'Actors' of Modern Society
| Unique citing works | 4 |
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| Citations per year | 0,47 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2026 (16) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |