In recent years the Swedish debate on health policy has been focusing on resource allocation between primary care versus secondary care, private care versus public care, and prevention versus care. The National Commission on the “Swedish Health Services in the 1990s” brought attention to the prevailing inequalities in health. The Health Policy Bill of 1985 defines the reduction of inequalities in health as a major target of national health policy. The health policy measures discussed are mainly outside the health care sector.
Get full access to this article
View all access options for this article.
References
1.
DiderichsenF.Ideologies in Swedish health sector today. The crises of the social democracy. Int. J. Health Serv. 12 (2), 1982
2.
Regeringsproposition 1981/82:97. Hälso- och sjukvårdslag m m (Health Care Act 1982). Riksdagen, Stockholm, 1982
3.
The Swedish Health Services in 1990s (HS90). National Board of Health and Welfare, Stockholm, 1985
4.
Inequalities in health and health care. Nordic School of Public Health. Report 1985:5
5.
Social Report on Inequality in Sweden. Living Condition Report No. 27. Official Statistics of Sweden. National Bureau of Statistics, Stockholm, 1981
6.
Ill Health and Medical Care. Living Condition Report No. 42. Official Statistics of Sweden. National Bureau of Statistics, Stockholm, 1985
7.
ErikssonR.ÅbergR. (eds.). Välfärd i förändring. Prisma, Stockholm, 1984
8.
National Insurance 1982. Official Statistics of Sweden. National Insurance Board, Stockholm, 1984
9.
HaglundB.Health care for whom? A statistical and cartographic study of health care utilization in the County of Uppsala. Uppsala Dissertation from the Faculty of Medicine ***1. Almquist & Wiksell International, Stockholm, 1986
10.
Regeringsproposition 1984/85:181. Om uteckligslinjer för hälso- och sjukvården m m (Health Policy Bill 1985). Riksdagen, Stockholm, 1985
11.
JanlertU.DahlgrenG.Unemployment, Health and the Labour Market—Some Aspects of Public Health Policy (HS90). National Board of Health and Welfare, Stockholm, 1983
12.
BrennerH. M.Importance of economic change in Swedish health and social well being, 1950–1980. Initial analysis and feasibility study (Mimeo). Baltimore, 1983
13.
Health Policy Implication of Unemployment. World Health Organization—Europe, Copenhagen, 1985
14.
Hälsopolitik i Samhällsplaneringen (HS90). SOU 1984:44 (Swedish Government Official Report). Stockholm, 1984
