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Halberg N, Larsen TS, Holen M. Overwork as a concept to understand health inequities for ethnicised patients in health care. SOCIOLOGY OF HEALTH & ILLNESS 2024. [PMID: 38822818 DOI: 10.1111/1467-9566.13796] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/07/2023] [Accepted: 05/02/2024] [Indexed: 06/03/2024]
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Health inequities for ethnically minoritised patients are well-documented. In this ethnographic study, we follow thirteen patients categorised as 'ethnic minorities' in Danish health care during hospitalisation in three orthopaedic wards across two hospitals. The categorisation of 'ethnic minority patient' has been problematised for its Eurocentric origin and practices within Westernised health care. We use ethnicised to emphasise the process of becoming minoritised based on markers of physical appearance, religious symbols, language or names. Access to health care also rely on perceived legitimacy as health-care recipients which requires work by patients. We demonstrate the workings patients categorised as 'ethnic minorities' engage in by (re)producing othering ideas about non-Danishness, including distancing from other patients perceived as problematic. These were then (counter)produced by positioning oneself as the opposite, as deserving health-care receivers by displaying welfare reciprocity, supporting egalitarian ideas by discounting discriminatory experiences, showing gratitude and identifying staff with good vibes. We propose these doings as creating overwork. This theoretical approach enables a sensitivity towards subtle and covert workings for patients placed in the margins of health care. In this study, overwork is closely related to notions of Danishness and takes on specific forms within a modernised and universalised Danish health-care system.
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- Nina Halberg
- Department of People and Technology, Roskilde University, Roskilde, Denmark
- Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, The Research Unit of Orthopaedic Nursing, Copenhagen University Hospital, Hvidovre, Denmark
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- Department of People and Technology, Roskilde University, Roskilde, Denmark
- Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, The Research Unit of Orthopaedic Nursing, Copenhagen University Hospital, Hvidovre, Denmark
- Clinical Research Centre, Copenhagen University Hospital, Hvidovre, Denmark
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- Department of People and Technology, Roskilde University, Roskilde, Denmark
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Hübner W, Phillimore J, Bradby H, Brand T. Assessing the contribution of migration related policies to equity in access to healthcare in European countries. A multilevel analysis. Soc Sci Med 2023; 321:115766. [PMID: 36842309 DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2023.115766] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/28/2022] [Revised: 12/17/2022] [Accepted: 02/09/2023] [Indexed: 02/16/2023]
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Access to good healthcare and the conditions for good health is one of the central dimensions of immigrant integration. National health policies play a major role in equipping residents with the necessary entitlements to accessible and acceptable healthcare services. Rarely analysed so far is the contribution of migration-related health policies to equity in access to healthcare between immigrants and the general population. To address this gap, this study analysed whether the extent to which migration is considered within national health policies moderates the association between immigration status and subjectively perceived unmet medical need in Europe. Using data from the 2019 European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) survey in combination with the Migration Integration Policy Index (MIPEX) a multilevel analysis was carried out assessing the cross-level interaction between immigration status and MIPEX scores controlling for individual-level factors such as age, gender, education and employment status. While our results showed that immigrants are more likely to report unmet medical need than the general population (adjusted Odds Ratio (aOR) = 1.32; 95% confidence interval (CI) 1.22-1.43), the cross-level interaction indicated increased relative inequality in unmet medical need between immigrants and the general population in countries with high MIPEX scores compared to countries with low MIPEX scores (aOR = 1.39, 95% CI: 1.18-1.63). The main reason for this increase of inequality on the relative scale was the overall lower prevalence of unmet medical need in countries with high MIPEX scores. In conclusion, our findings indicate that even in countries with relatively migration-friendly health policies inequalities in access to healthcare between immigrants and the general population persist.
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- Wiebke Hübner
- Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology, Department of Prevention and Evaluation, Achterstrasse 30, 28359, Bremen, Germany.
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- University of Birmingham, Department of Social Policy, Sociology and Criminology, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT, United Kingdom.
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- Uppsala University, Department of Sociology, Box 624, 751 26, Uppsala, Sweden.
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- Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology, Department of Prevention and Evaluation, Achterstrasse 30, 28359, Bremen, Germany.
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Gaigl G, Täumer E, Allgöwer A, Becker T, Breilmann J, Falkai P, Gühne U, Kilian R, Riedel-Heller SG, Ajayi K, Baumgärtner J, Brieger P, Frasch K, Heres S, Jäger M, Küthmann A, Putzhammer A, Schneeweiß B, Schwarz M, Kösters M, Hasan A. The role of migration in mental healthcare: treatment satisfaction and utilization. BMC Psychiatry 2022; 22:116. [PMID: 35168572 PMCID: PMC8845273 DOI: 10.1186/s12888-022-03722-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/13/2021] [Accepted: 01/20/2022] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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Migration rates increase globally and require an adaption of national mental health services to the needs of persons with migration background. Therefore, we aimed to identify differences between persons with and without migratory background regarding (1) treatment satisfaction, (2) needed and received mental healthcare and (3) utilization of mental healthcare.In the context of a cross-sectional multicenter study, inpatients and day hospital patients of psychiatric settings in Southern Germany with severe affective and non-affective psychoses were included. Patients' satisfaction with and their use of mental healthcare services were assessed by VSSS-54 and CSSRI-EU; patients' needs were measured via CAN-EU.In total, 387 participants (migratory background: n = 72; 19%) provided sufficient responses for analyses. Migrant patients were more satisfied with the overall treatment in the past year compared to non-migrant patients. No differences between both groups were identified in met and unmet treatment needs and use of supply services (psychiatric, psychotherapeutic, and psychosocial treatment).Despite a comparable degree of met and unmet treatment needs and mental health service use among migrants and non-migrants, patients with migration background showed higher overall treatment satisfaction compared to non-migrants. The role of sociocultural and migrant-related factors may explain our findings.
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- Gabriele Gaigl
- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Hospital, Klinikum der Universität München, Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich, Nußbaumstraße 7, D-80336, Munich, Germany.
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Hospital, Klinikum der Universität München, Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich, Nußbaumstraße 7, D-80336, Munich, Germany
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- Institute for Epidemiology and Medical Biometry, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry II, Ulm University, BKH, Günzburg, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Hospital, Klinikum der Universität München, Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich, Nußbaumstraße 7, D-80336, Munich, Germany
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- Institute of Social Medicine, Occupational Health and Public Health (ISAP), Medical Faculty, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry II, Ulm University, BKH, Günzburg, Germany
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- Institute of Social Medicine, Occupational Health and Public Health (ISAP), Medical Faculty, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatic, University of Augsburg, Medical Faculty, BKH Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry II, Ulm University, BKH, Günzburg, Germany
- District hospital Donauwörth, Donauwörth, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry II, Ulm University, BKH, Günzburg, Germany
- District hospital Kempten, Kempten, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry II, Ulm University, BKH, Günzburg, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatic, University of Augsburg, Medical Faculty, BKH Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany
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Migrants’ pathways to aged care: the role of local relationships of care in facilitating access for super-diverse older populations. AGEING & SOCIETY 2021. [DOI: 10.1017/s0144686x21001240] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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The literature on older migrants often focuses on identifying the characteristics of ethnic groups that constitute ‘barriers’ for members of these populations to access care. This paper offers an alternative conceptualisation of access to care, by combining relational approaches to place and the notion of super-diversity. From this perspective, ‘access to care’ is perceived as an outcome of an individual's embeddedness in relationships of care in urban places. The objective of the study is to identify relationships of care that facilitate access to aged care for older first-generation migrants. Thirty-two semi-structured interviews were conducted with older migrants who were residents of Nijmegen or The Hague, The Netherlands. All interviewees had accessed home care, home aid and/or day care. Both relationships with minority-specific services and informal relationships of care, particularly those within local minority communities, were found to facilitate access to aged care. Past experiences with health and social care were also found to influence current relationships with formal care providers. This study, therefore, suggests that policy makers and care organisations should build long-term positive relationships with new and incoming migrant groups. In addition, it argues that policy makers and care providers should identify locally relevant shared migration-related (rather than ethnic) identities around which communities can be mobilised and targeted with appropriate services.
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Hamed S, Thapar-Björkert S, Bradby H, Ahlberg BM. Racism in European Health Care: Structural Violence and Beyond. QUALITATIVE HEALTH RESEARCH 2020; 30:1662-1673. [PMID: 32546076 PMCID: PMC7410275 DOI: 10.1177/1049732320931430] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/13/2023]
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Research shows how racism can negatively affect access to health care and treatment. However, limited theoretical research exists on conceptualizing racism in health care. In this article, we use structural violence as a theoretical tool to understand how racism as an institutionalized social structure is enacted in subtle ways and how the "violence" built into forms of social organization is rendered invisible through repetition and routinization. We draw on interviews with health care users from three European countries, namely, Sweden, Germany, and Portugal to demonstrate how two interrelated processes of unequal access to resources and inequalities in power can lead to the silencing of suffering and erosion of dignity, respectively. The strength of this article lies in illuminating the mechanisms of subtle racism that damages individuals and leads to loss of trust in health care. It is imperative to address these issues to ensure a responsive and equal health care for all users.
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- Sarah Hamed
- Uppsala University, Uppsala,
Sweden
- Sarah Hamed, Department of
Sociology, Uppsala University, Engelska parken, Thunbergsv. 3H, Box
624, 751 26 Uppsala, Sweden.
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- Department of Sociology, Uppsala
University, Uppsala, Sweden
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Bradby H, Lindenmeyer A, Phillimore J, Padilla B, Brand T. 'If there were doctors who could understand our problems, I would already be better': dissatisfactory health care and marginalisation in superdiverse neighbourhoods. SOCIOLOGY OF HEALTH & ILLNESS 2020; 42:739-757. [PMID: 32020646 PMCID: PMC7318273 DOI: 10.1111/1467-9566.13061] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/13/2023]
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How people in community settings describe their experience of disappointing health care, and their responses to such dissatisfaction, sheds light on the role of marginalisation and underlines the need for radically responsive service provision. Making the case for studying unprompted accounts of dissatisfaction with healthcare provision, this is an original analysis of 71 semi-structured interviews with healthcare users in superdiverse neighbourhoods in four European cities. Healthcare users spontaneously express disappointment with services that dismiss their concerns and fail to attend to their priorities. Analysing characteristics of these healthcare users show that no single aspect of marginalisation shapes the expression of disappointment. In response to disappointing health care, users sought out alternative services and to persuade reluctant service providers, and they withdrew from services, in order to access more suitable health care and to achieve personal vindication. Promoting normative quality standards for diverse and diversifying populations that access care from a range of public and private service providers is in tension with prioritising services that are responsive to individual priorities. Without an effort towards radically responsive service provision, the ideal of universal access on the basis of need gives way to normative service provision.
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- Institute for Research into Superdiversity (IRiS)School of Social PolicyUniversity of BirminghamBirminghamUK
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- Department of SociologyUniversity of South FloridaTampaUSA
- Instituto Universitario de Lisboa (ISCTE‐IUL)LisbonPortugal
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- Department Prevention and EvaluationLeibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology – BIPSBremenGermany
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Bradby H, Lebano A, Hamed S, Gil-Salmerón A, Durá-Ferrandis E, Garcés-Ferrer J, Sherlaw W, Christova I, Karnaki P, Zota D, Riza E. Policy Makers', NGO, and Healthcare Workers' Accounts of Migrants' and Refugees' Healthcare Access Across Europe-Human Rights and Citizenship Based Claims. FRONTIERS IN SOCIOLOGY 2020; 5:16. [PMID: 33869425 PMCID: PMC8022609 DOI: 10.3389/fsoc.2020.00016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/04/2019] [Accepted: 02/25/2020] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
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Freely available healthcare, universally accessible to the population of citizens, is a key ideal for European welfare systems. As labor migration of the twentieth century gave way to the globalized streams of the twenty-first century, new challenges to fulfilling these ideals have emerged. The principle of freedom of movement, together with large-scale forced migration have led to large scale movements of people, making new demands on European healthcare systems which had previously been largely focused on meeting sedentary local populations' needs. Drawing on interviews with service providers working for NGOs and public healthcare systems and with policy makers across 10 European countries, this paper considers how forced migrants' healthcare needs are addressed by national health systems, with factors hindering access at organizational and individual level in particular focus. The ways in which refugees' and migrants' healthcare access is prevented are considered in terms of claims based on citizenship and on the human right to health and healthcare. Where claims based on citizenship are denied and there is no means of asserting the human right to health, migrants are caught in a new form of inequality.
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- Hannah Bradby
- Department of Sociology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Sociology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Sociology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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- École des Hautes Etudes en Santé Publique (EHESP), Rennes, France
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- National Center of Infectious and Parasitic Diseases, Sofia, Bulgaria
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- Institute of Preventive Medicine, Environmental and Occupational Health, Marousi, Greece
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- Institute of Preventive Medicine, Environmental and Occupational Health, Marousi, Greece
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- Department of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
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R. Montenegro C, Bernales M, Gonzalez-Aguero M. Teaching global health from the south: challenges and proposals. CRITICAL PUBLIC HEALTH 2020. [DOI: 10.1080/09581596.2020.1730570] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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- Cristian R. Montenegro
- School of Nursing, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile (PUC), Santiago, Chile
- Global Health Program, Faculty of Medicine, PUC, Santiago, Chile
- Platform for Social Research on Mental Health in Latin America (PLASMA), Santiago, Chile
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- School of Nursing, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile (PUC), Santiago, Chile
- Global Health Program, Faculty of Medicine, PUC, Santiago, Chile
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Sakellariou D, Anstey S, Polack S, Rotarou ES, Warren N, Gaze S, Courtenay M. Pathways of disability-based discrimination in cancer care. CRITICAL PUBLIC HEALTH 2019. [DOI: 10.1080/09581596.2019.1648762] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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- School of Healthcare Sciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK
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- London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, International Centre for Evidence in Disability, London, UK
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- School of Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
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- School of Healthcare Sciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK
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- School of Healthcare Sciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK
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Bradby H, Thapar-Björkert S, Hamed S, Ahlberg BM. Undoing the unspeakable: researching racism in Swedish healthcare using a participatory process to build dialogue. Health Res Policy Syst 2019; 17:43. [PMID: 31014361 PMCID: PMC6480694 DOI: 10.1186/s12961-019-0443-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/07/2019] [Accepted: 03/27/2019] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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Background Racism is difficult to discuss in the context of Swedish healthcare for various cultural and administrative reasons. Herein, we interpret the fragmentary nature of the evidence of racialising processes and the difficulty of reporting racist discrimination in terms of structural violence. Methods In response to the unspeakable nature of racism in Swedish healthcare, we propose a phased participatory process to build a common vocabulary and grammar through a consultative framework involving healthcare providers and service users as well as policy-makers. These stakeholders will be involved in an educational intervention to facilitate discussion around and avoidance of racism in service provision. Discussion Both the participatory process and outcomes of the process, e.g. educational interventions, will contribute to the social and political conversation about racism in healthcare settings. Creating new ways of discussing sensitive topics allows ameliorative actions to be taken, benefitting healthcare providers and users. The urgency of the project is underlined.
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Affiliation(s)
- Hannah Bradby
- Department of Sociology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.
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- Department of Sociology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Skaraborg Institute and Department of Sociology, Uppsala University, Skövde and Uppsala, Sweden
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