Erica Falkenström

I am a researcher at the Institute for Futures Studies and an associated researcher at the Centre for Research Ethics & Bioethics (CRB) at Uppsala University. My research focuses on ethical dimensi

BMC Health Services Research 2018 18:608, doi.org/10.1186/s12913-018-3436-8. Abstract BackgroundBy tradition, the Swedish health care system is based on a representative and parliamentary form of governm

Journal of Workplace Learning. 28(1), 17–32, doi.org/10.1108/JWL-04-2015-0033. Abstract PurposeThe purpose of this paper was to explore what kind of ethical competence healthcare managers need in handli

Journal of Health Organisation and Management. DOI:10.1108/JHOM-05-2019-0130 AbstractThe purpose of this paper is to analyse ethical competence related to healthcare governance and management tasks at t

Journal of Health Organization and Management Abstract Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to contribute knowledge on ethical issues and reasoning in expertreports concerning healthcare governance, cDesign/methodology/approach – An in-depth analysis of ethical issues and reasoning in 36 commissionedexpert reports was performed. Twenty-seven interviews with commissioners and producers of the reports werealso carried out and analysed.Findings – Some ethical issues were identified in the reports. But ethical reasoning was rarely evident. Themeaning of ethical concepts could be devalued and changed over time and thereby deviate from statutoryethical goals and values. Several ethical issues of great concern for the Swedish public healthcare were alsoabsent.Practical implications – The commissioner of expert reports needs to ensure that comprehensive ethicalconsiderations and ethical analysis are integrated in the expert reports.Originality/value – Based on an extensive data material this paper reveals an ethical void in expert reportson healthcare governance. By avoiding ethical issues there is a risk that the expert reports could bring aboutreforms and control models that have ethically undesirable consequences for people and society.

Politics & Policy Abstract This article analyzes the emergence of the Swedish “national system for knowledge-driven management.” We argue that the system is best understood as a meta-instrument that

Scandinavian Journal of Public Administration, vol. 27. No. 2, p. 57–70. Abstract This paper analyses the process in which expert reports on health care governance are commissioned, produced and receive

Politics & Policy 50(1): 59–76. Abstract The article analyzes the commissioning and production of expert reports about Swedish health care management and governance. We show that these reports are r

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