Fredriksson, Mio, Eriksson, Max and Tritter, Jonathan Q (2017). Involvement that makes an impact on healthcare:Perceptions of the Swedish public. Scandinavian journal of public health, Novemb ,
Abstract
Aim: ‘Participation and influence in society’ is the first of 11 objective domains in Swedish public health policy. The aim of this article is to investigate the views of the Swedish general population on the impact of a range of health participation activities, and whether these views were associated with sociodemographic characteristics. Methods: The study utilizes a national representative survey of the Swedish population, aged 15 years and over (n = 1500). Results: Apart from voting in regional elections – which most of the respondents believed to be an influential way to make improvements in healthcare (74%) – respondents believed more in individual patient activities than activities associated with adopting a citizen role and acting collectively. A majority of respondents believed in the impact of replying to patient surveys (67%), making a complaint (61%), talking directly to staff (58%) or changing their healthcare provider (54%). Fewer believed in the impact of joining a patient organization (46%), taking part in a citizen council (35%) or joining a political party (34%). Beliefs in impact increased with educational attainment and decreased with age. Conclusions: The results suggest people have more confidence in the impact of participating as individual patients rather than collectively and as citizens. To ensure that activities enable ‘participation and influence in society’, complementary opportunities for collective involvement that also take into account under-represented voices such as those with a low level of education need to be developed.
Publication DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1177/1403494817738692 |
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Divisions: | College of Business and Social Sciences > School of Social Sciences & Humanities > Sociology and Policy College of Business and Social Sciences > School of Social Sciences & Humanities College of Business and Social Sciences > School of Social Sciences & Humanities > Centre for Critical Inquiry into Society and Culture (CCISC) |
Additional Information: | © Author(s) 2017. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). Funding: Swedish Research Council (grant number 350-2012-6634). |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | Patient and public involvement, citizen participation, patient empowerment, public health policy, Sweden |
Publication ISSN: | 1403-4948 |
Last Modified: | 06 Aug 2024 07:51 |
Date Deposited: | 22 Nov 2017 08:40 |
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Published Date: | 2017-11-01 |
Accepted Date: | 2017-09-25 |
Authors: |
Fredriksson, Mio
Eriksson, Max Tritter, Jonathan Q ( ![]() |