From co-operation to competition : the division of labour between "public" and "private" providers in Swedish 20th century alcoholism treatment
Engelsk titel: From co-operation to competition : the division of labour between "public" and "private" providers in Swedish 20th century alcoholism treatment
Författare:
Stenius, Kerstin
Språk: Eng
Antal referenser: 31
Dokumenttyp:
Artikel
UI-nummer: 60901
Sammanfattning
The development in the alcoholism and drug abuse treatment system in Sweden during the 1980s was called "the privatization of the century". This paper tries to gain a perspective on this characterization. It looks both at the roles given to different types of providers in the legislation, public reports and Parliamentary debates and at the relative shares of the state, the municipalities, different organizations and private enter prises in treatment provision in Sweden during this century. The conclusion is that there has never been a public hegemony within alcoholism treatment provision in Sweden. Treatment has been produced jointly by different types of "public" and "private", or semi-public, half-private providers. The "privatization" epithet was the result of an illusion, created by policy goals and misleading statistics from the 1970s and early 1980s.