It all started with Greta Edelstam – now Associate Professor at Uppsala University – becoming aware that patients she met at the Endometriosis Centre brought their own heating pads to be able to lie comfortably on the cold bench. The difficulty of adjusting the leg...
It all started because the ambulance care staff at SUH came up with the idea of segregating statistics by gender. Patients with fractured hip or femoral neck (collum femoris) constitute the single largest category of orthopaedic injuries which is dealt with by...
‘We are pretty certain that once patients arrive at the intensive heart care unit, we treat woman and men equally. But something happens before they get to us,’ says Lars Ekström at the Division of Cardiology, Sahlgrenska University Hospital. Cardiology...
The district health care centre in Hässelby in the western part of Stockholm has 72 employees who handle 24 000 patients a year. Five years ago, the head of the centre, Erik Lucht, attended Stockholm County Council’s gender equality course for management staff, led...
Since 2002, the district health care centre in Skurup has had a special resource team for patients who have been sick-listed for more than four weeks. The team includes an occupational therapist, a social worker, a doctor, a psychologist, a physiotherapist and one...
Anna Östbom is an expert on sick-listing issues at the Swedish Association of Local Authorities and Regions (SKL). She has been part of including gender equality in an agreement between the Swedish Government and SKL regarding the annual so-called ‘healthcare...
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