Promoting coordination in Norwegian health care

Promoting coordination in Norwegian health care1

INTRODUCTION The Norwegian health care system is well organized within its two main sectors-primary health and long-term care on the one hand, and hospitals and specialist services on the other. However, the relation between them lacks mediating structures. POLICY PRACTICE Enhancing coordination between primary and secondary health care has been central in Norwegian health care policy in the ...

The Norwegian Care Coordination Reform – what now?

Promoting evidence-based health care in Africa

Countries with major public health challenges do not always base their health-care decisions on the best available scientific evidence. Charles Shey Wiysonge tells Fiona Fleck how he and his colleagues are trying to change that.

Promoting child health equity: family-centered care coordination is just one piece of the puzzle.

In their report in this month’s issue of Pediatrics, Toomey et al analyzed data from the National Survey of Children’s Health related to parental rating of their children’s receipt of care coordination. The authors found that 41% of all parents, and 72% of parents of children with special health care needs, reported that their child needed some type of care coordination. However, almost one-thi...

Understanding Complex Coordination Processes in Health Care

This paper identifies and analyses complex coordination processes at radiology departments in Austria1, Denmark, and Sweden. The understanding of coordination work is emphasised by focusing on different interdependencies between work activities. It illustrates that various interdependencies have different properties, which in turn have derived different coordination dimensions. We refer to thes...