Availability is the main concept for the digital health care services that is being used to consult doctors and nurses without spatial restrictions. Sweden is aspiring to become world leading in utilizing the opportunities from digitisation and e-health by the year 2025. This is considered necessary in order to meet the demands from an wealthier and aging population that expects more and better welfare services.However, if we are to weigh one of the arguments by Michael Lipsky, more easily available welfare services causes an increased demand for them. Additional efforts to make welfare services more available will be consumed by the endless appetite for these sort of goods. In the light of this theory, a paradox might exist when digital health care services is being used to relieve an already strained health care. We can consequently question if digital health care availability will be followed by an increased demand for welfare services?By using a survey in which Swedish citizens were asked about their attitudes to digital health care services and welfare needs, this study concludes that there is a strong relation between the respondents approach to digital health care services and their feelings towards more efforts to increase the amount of welfare services. The study also concludes that the respondents were mostly positive to digital health care services, yet that a commonly expressed opinion were that they should be developed and implemented by the public sector.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:umu-175332 |
| Date | January 2020 |
| Creators | Anttila, Martin |
| Publisher | Umeå universitet, Statsvetenskapliga institutionen |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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