There has been shift from inpatient care to primary and outpatient care due to the important policies since 1990. County councils fixed all the provider fees and this has caused variation across the sweden. All the service providers like physicians‚ nurses and other staff are salaried employee either by public or private setting. They are allowed to provide services outside their workplace increasing access to care for patients. According to the Swedish
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most influential factors chosen from Hofstede’s model are PD and UA‚ with the largest gap in scores and significant differences from table 1. Table 1 Different Scores of Brazil and Sweden in the national cultural dimensions Power Distance Uncertainty Avoidance Individualism Masculinity Brazil 69 76 38 49 Sweden 31 29 71 5 Source: Hofstede (1980‚ p315) Firstly‚ PD refers to the interpersonal power or influence between the powerful member of an organization and the least powerful one (Browaeys
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Report 15.10.2012 Strategic importance of the Barents region in the European context The Barents region is located in the high north of Europe and consists of four countries: Russia‚ Finland‚ Norway and Sweden. This area‚ unlike‚ western territories‚ is “wild”‚ meaning huge territory‚ low-populated and untouched nature with a huge amount of natural resources. The area has a huge potential‚ which can be realised. In order to do that‚ we‚ firstly‚ have to understand the
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like to show an example by comparing the motivation degree of middle managers from Sweden and Russia as a result of using the same motivation tools. As an example I would like to use Maslow’s Need Theory and my hypothesis is: Salary level is a more important motivating factor for Russian middle managers than for Swedish managers. First of all‚ I should mention the fact that living conditions in Russia and Sweden differ greatly. Using need theory language‚ Russians are likely to be at a lower level
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Languages‚ dialects and slang of Sweden Introduction My research will be how the language variation in Sweden looks today‚ and I will give some information about the Swedish language and other spoken languages in Sweden. I will also look into the sub-dialects called `Rinkebyswedish`‚ ´Swenglish” and slang language. Swedish is now officially the main language of Sweden and is spoken approximately by 10 million people. Although until 2009 it was not the official language. The reason for that was
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2013:14 Voter Turnout and the Size of Government Linuz Aggeborn Uppsala Center for Fiscal Studies Working paper 2013:14 Department of Economics November 2013 Uppsala University P.O. Box 513 SE-751 20 Uppsala Sweden Fax: +46 18 471 14 78 Voter Turnout and the Size of Government Linuz Aggeborn Papers in the Working Paper Series are published on internet in PDF formats. Download from http://ucfs.nek.uu.se/ Voter Turnout and the Size of Government
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families‚ Sweden’s policy consists of very generous parental leave‚ reduced hours for the working parents who have children‚ high quality childcare in and out of school. The policies costs 0.8% of GDP for parents leave while day care costs 2% of GDP. Sweden has one of the highest taxes to GDP ratio in the OECD (Organization for Economic C-operation and Development). The reason for such an accommodating policy is that Swedish healthcare is part of a national welfare model. The root of the policies date
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Sweden There are about 410 registered insurance companies in Sweden. Most of them are small local nonlife insurance companies. The market is concentrated into a few large companies and company groups. In life insurance the five largest insurance companies/groups have 53 per cent of the market. The international presence has increased in the past ten years. At present there are 38 foreign insurance companies represented via branches or agencies. Insurance Employment The insurance industry employs
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that live in Sweden‚ and their relation to our society‚ the Swedish general population and the government. Every day‚ we read in the newspapers about how different gangs‚ consisting of youths with different ethnical backgrounds (Swedish youths are an obvious minority in these gangs)‚ have been involved in various illegal activities‚ such as assault‚ robbery and so on. The members of these groups‚ or gangs‚ have a few things in common. First of all‚ most of them have only lived in Sweden for a few
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always had the heart and brains of being very successful in his life. From accomplishing an expedition to making his mark in his hometown‚ Anders Celsius was very prosperous. Anders Celsius was born in January 27‚ 1701. Raised and born in Uppsala‚ Sweden‚ Anders was upraised as a Lutheran. His family and he were Swedish. As he was growing up he always had the love for science and math. His father and grandfathers were good role models for Anders because they were intelligent successful people. The
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