- Title
- Healthcare as a context for collaboration: more than we can easily see
- Creator
- Croker, Anne
- Relation
- Collaborating in Healthcare: Reinterpreting Therapeutic Relationships p. 17-24
- Relation
- Practice, Education, Work and Society 11
- Relation
- https://www.sensepublishers.com/catalogs/bookseries/practice-education-work-and-society/collaborating-in-healthcare
- Publisher
- Sense Publishers
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2016
- Description
- Healthcare is a complex, evolving concept, meaning different things to different people. Views of health tend to reflect socially acquired beliefs, values and attitudes and the social structures that reinforce and challenge them. The wide range of different understandings of healthcare have diverse implications for action. For example, a manager's need for quantified information and efficiency of healthcare services may conflict with a patient's valuing of personal experience as a source of understanding; or a social worker's wish to expand understandings of social determinants of health may appear incompatible to a doctor's preference for objective scientific evidence to support his current model of practice. At the heart of this chapter is my contention that in order to understand collaboration we need to recognise that there are diverse meanings used for the term healthcare which impact on collaboration. In this chapter the notion of healthcare is conceptualised as being located in a complex, socially-constructed set of systems, providers, approaches and views that provide the framework and drivers for implementing healthcare strategies. Rather than assuming shared understandings, the extent and implications of different meanings of health and healthcare are explored.
- Subject
- collaboration; healthcare; healthcare strategies; patient
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1343293
- Identifier
- uon:29124
- Identifier
- ISBN:9789463008051
- Language
- eng
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