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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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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countries like Norway‚ Sweden and Finland‚ they have a more extensive group of abolitionists‚ which have been more successful as they have a unified voice in order to abolish prisons. More specifically‚ comparing the UK to Sweden‚ abolitionists in Sweden are a much broader group‚ unlike United Kingdom‚ having just one small group of abolitionists. ‘Sweden is closing prisons and reducing the prison population’ (Guardian‚ 2014). This exemplifies that the abolitionist movement in Sweden is much more effective
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councils about plans to introduce new technologies‚ restructure work‚ and reallocate workers to different tasks or location or lay off workers. Although Germany has good management‚ their methods do not prevent strikes from occurring. On the other hand Sweden‚ another European country where the motivation for industrial democracy is totally different. They consist of remarkably strong unions along with strong governing social democratic party to constantly improve employment condition and offer more worker
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Organisation and Behaviour by IKEA in Sweden and America Transmitted to: IKEA Prepared for: Mr. George S. Kencana (Lecturer) Mr. Nguyen Duc Trung (Tutor) Unit 3: Organisations and Behaviour Banking Academy‚ Hanoi BTEC HND in Business (Finance) Prepared by: Vu Hong Minh (Owen) Registration No: A970629 Submitted: 21 January 2010 Contents Page Cover Page................................................................................................
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