The capacity of municipal health care to effectively manage relationships with regional health care services
Short description
The research project analyses how governance and administration within municipal health care operate in interaction with primary and specialist care in the transition towards integrated, close-to-home care. Particular attention is paid to how municipal care—such as elderly care and home health care—depends on the resources, working practices, and administrative routines of other health care providers in order to deliver coordinated, patient-centred care.
The project, led by Mikael Cäker at the School of Business, Economics and Law and conducted within the Centre for Health Governance, maps how municipalities govern their health care services at different levels and examines situations in which collaboration between actors is crucial. By analysing how changes within one health care provider affect others, the project aims to increase knowledge of how governance can be designed to enable effective collaboration and better functioning integrated, close-to-home care, particularly within elderly care.
Participating researchers
Peter Beusch, Mikael Cäker and Isabell Meltzer, all affiliated with the Department of Business Administration at the School of Business, Economics and Law.