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- Appelbäck, Mia, et al.
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The dynamics of intercultural clinical encounters in times of pandemic crisis. Swedish healthcare providers' reflections on social norms in relation to sexual and reproductive healthcare
- 2024
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Ingår i: Midwifery. - : Elsevier. - 0266-6138 .- 1532-3099. ; 138
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Background: Experiences from the COVID-19 pandemic may help to better understand resilience, competences and skills for healthcare providers and the healthcare system. Within sexual and reproductive health inequalities for migrants exist and it is an area where promoting both cultural competency and healthcare equity in the clinical encounter is expected of healthcare providers yet can create tension. The aim is to explore healthcare providers experiences of encounters with migrants in the context of the pandemic and the subsequent changes in routines and norms.Methods: A qualitative study based on semi-structured interviews with 31 healthcare providers working in sexual and reproductive healthcare in southern Sweden. Interviews were conducted during the COVID-19 pandemic influencing how healthcare providers reflected on their experiences. Analysis was done using reflexive thematic data analysis.Findings: Healthcare providers reflected on how changes in routines increased the understanding of challenges and enablers in the intercultural encounter including the impact on communication and role of relatives and male partners. They emphasized the dynamics of culture in the clinical encounter and healthcare system through highlighting the importance of structural awareness, self-reflection and the flexibility of conducts and norms, often given a cultural connotation.Conclusion: The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in changes of previously established routines directly affecting clinical encounters, which provided a unique opportunity for healthcare providers to reflect, with communication and self-reflection being discussed as central in complex encounters. It highlighted the dynamics of presumed deeply rooted cultural norms and the interplay with social factors affecting healthcare providers and patients alike.
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- Eriksson, Erik, 1977, et al.
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Participation in a Swedish cervical cancer screening program among women with psychiatric diagnoses: a population-based cohort study.
- 2019
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Ingår i: BMC public health. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 1471-2458. ; 19:1
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In Sweden, organized screening programs have significantly reduced the incidence of cervical cancer. For cancers overall, however, women with psychiatric diagnoses have lower survival rates than other women. This study explores whether women with psychiatric diagnoses participate in cervical cancer screening programs to a lesser extent than women on average, and whether there are disparities between psychiatric diagnostic groups based on grades of severity.Between 2000 and 2010, 65,292 women within screening ages of 23-60 had at least two ICD-10 (International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems - Tenth Revision) codes F20*-F40* registered at visits in primary care or psychiatric care in Region Västra Götaland, Sweden. Participation in the cervical cancer screening program during 2010-2014 was compared with the general female population using logistic regression adjusted for age.Relative risk for participation (RR) for women diagnosed within psychiatric specialist care RR was 0.94 compared with the general population, adjusted for age. RR for diagnoses outside specialist care was 0.99. RR for psychoses (F20*) was 0.81.Women with less-severe psychiatric diagnoses participate in the screening program to the same extent as women overall. Women who have received psychiatric specialist care participate to a lesser extent than women overall. The lowest participation rates were found among women diagnosed with psychoses.
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- Eriksson, Lise, Docent, 1977-
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Finland as a Late Regulator of Assisted Reproduction : A Permissive Policy under Debate
- 2016. - 1
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Ingår i: <em>Assisted Reproduction Across Borders</em>. - Oxford/New York : Routledge. - 9781138674646 - 9781317200680 ; , s. 124-135
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The chapter discusses how Finland, a country that sits well within the framework of modern western semi-secular welfare democracies, is counted among the more permissive countries of Europe when it comes to legislation and practices of assisted reproduction (ART). It is also a country that regulated ARTs very late compared to other Nordic countries with comparable welfare regimes. But, as author underlines, the Finnish situation is more complex than an analysis of the law as such and the liberal practices of clinics might suggest, particularly before the first Finnish Act on Assisted Reproduction was enacted in 2007. There is a significant difference between the wording of the actual act, and the heated debates that preceded its being approved by the Finnish Parliament. The chapter focuses on three themes that appeared in policy documents and political debates: (i) childlessness as a medical problem, (ii) religious arguments, and (iii) perceptions of fatherhood in relation to sperm donation and donor anonymity. The author shows how the debates framed childlessness as a medical problem, excluding social aspects, making same-sex couples’ and single women’s use of ARTs dubious, and problematizing equality in terms of both eligibility and access.
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- Eriksson, Lise, Docent, 1977-
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Finnish Legislation on Assisted Reproductive Technologies : A Comparison of Church Statements
- 2016. - 1
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Ingår i: <em>Reconsidering Religion, Law, and Democracy</em>. - Lund : Nordic Academic Press. - 9789188168238 ; , s. 139-155
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this essay, Eriksson compares how religious arguments are used in statements on assisted reproductive technologies and surrogacy by the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland and the Orthodox Church of Finland. The study is a discourse analysis of the role of religious beliefs, religious norms, ethics and human rights discourse in statements by the two Churches. In Finland, the Finnish Evangelical Church has been strongly involved in matters regarding assisted reproduction and surrogacy, and has had great impact on the political discussions in these questions. The Finnish Orthodox approach to reproductive technologies seems quite pragmatic, and the Church does not take a position on how the state should legislate.
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- Eriksson, Lise, 1977-
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Intersections between Biopolitics and Religion : Cases of Politicisation of Religion in Finland and Norway
- 2019
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Ingår i: Nordic Journal of Religion and Society. - : Scandinavian University Press / Universitetsforlaget AS. - 0809-7291 .- 1890-7008. ; 32:1, s. 40-54
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article comparatively studies intersections between biopolitics and religion in Finnish and Norwegian parliamentary debates on assisted reproductive technologies and biotechnology. In both countries, references to religion have been prevalent in policy processes and parliamentary debates on these issues, with Christian Democrats actively promoting bioethics. The article analyses references to religion and the role of national churches and Christian Democratic parties. It also discusses under what conditions religious positions influence political decisions and how these cases bring nuance to theories of politicisation of religion. Legal sources and parliamentary proceedings of plenary sessions are analysed through critical discourse analysis. The article suggests that reproductive politics has contributed to politicisation of religion in the Finnish and Norwegian parliaments, identifying blurred boundaries between public and private spheres and a discursive framework of values debates.
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- Eriksson, Lise, Docent, 1977-
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Mitä sijaissynnytyksissä syntyneistä lapsista tiedetään? [What do we know about children born through surrogacy?]
- 2021
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Ingår i: Ilmiö. - Helsinki. - 2489-9402.
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Forskningsöversikt (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- Surrogacy is often described in media and politics dramatically, and with an emphasis on risks. There is very little research on children born in surrogacy, which may also be one reason for the lack of legislation on surrogacy in some countries. Building on theoretical accounts in family and kinship studies, the article explores how surrogacy practices contribute to challenging and changing the boundaries of kinship. The article explores long-term effects of surrogacy by studying the wellbeing of surrogate-born individuals. Through a literature review, the article studies previous research on surrogate-born children and adolescents, and their views on kinship, surrogacy origin and vulnerability. However, there are few studies about children born through surrogacy, and studies of surrogate-born adolescents or adults are very limited. Most previous studies on surrogate-born individuals are psychological longitudinal studies of young children, their adjustment, wellbeing and relation to their parents. The literature review is combined with a few examples from interviews with Finnish parents and surrogate mothers. The article focuses on how respondents reflect on the identities of children born through surrogacy and how parents have told children about their origins.
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- Eriksson, Lise, Docent, 1977-
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Outsourcing problems or regulating altruism? : Parliamentary debates on domestic and cross-border surrogacy in Finland and Norway
- 2022
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Ingår i: The European Journal of Women's Studies. - : Sage Publications. - 1350-5068 .- 1461-7420. ; 29:1, s. 107-122
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article employs the concept of respectability and the discursive representation of gender equality policies to discuss how surrogacy is represented in Nordic parliamentary debates and policy documents. The article’s objective is to study how respectability, problems and equality are represented and discursively and rhetorically produced through a comparative study of Finnish and Norwegian political discourses on domestic unpaid surrogacy and cross-border commercial surrogacy. The article uses rhetorical and discursive analysis to analyse the Finnish and Norwegian Parliaments’ bills, members’ initiatives and proceedings from 2002 to 2018. Finland’s policy on surrogacy has evolved from an unregulated and permissive approach towards a more restrictive one, with discourses focusing on medicalisation, equality, altruism and safety concerning domestic surrogacy and problems and risks concerning cross-border surrogacy. Norway’s policy on surrogacy has been restrictive consistently, with discourses focusing on surrogacy as a transnational social problem involving exploitation of women and children, and biocentrism. Analysing surrogacy regulation in Nordic welfare states, the author concludes that policies and parliamentary debates in both countries have expressed expectations for inclusive health policies and social security for families. Cross-border surrogacy is characterised as an unwanted consequence of globalisation and marketisation of reproduction. Surrogate mothers’ respectability is constructed through rhetoric on differences in terms of nationality, class and binary representations of female caring and instrumentalism.
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- Eriksson, Lise, Docent, 1977-, et al.
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Perceived Religious Discrimination in Healthcare : A Qualitative Study of Formal Complaints
- 2024
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Ingår i: Culture, Spirituality and Religious Literacy in Healthcare. - Abingdon; New York : Routledge. - 9781003450573 - 9781032320540 - 9781032585536 ; , s. 90-107
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Swedish healthcare providers must comply with the Patient Act's principles of equal and accessible care and account for patients’ religious backgrounds by offering culturally sensitive care. This chapter explores what characterizes patients’ and their relatives’ expectations in healthcare encounters perceived as religiously discriminatory in the diverse Swedish healthcare system. It analyses perceived religious discrimination in healthcare through the interpretative phenomenological analysis of complaints submitted to the Equality Ombudsman in Sweden from 2012 to 2021, which registered 92 complaints as religious discrimination in healthcare, 66 of which were included in this study's analytical sample. The complaints addressed unfulfilled expectations related to cultural and religious literacy, equal treatment in relation to religious symbols or medical records, affirmative action in medical treatment that takes beliefs into account, and a secular environment that forbids religious symbols in healthcare encounters. One-third of the complaints were submitted by Muslims or individuals presumed to be Muslim. Several complaints concerned healthcare providers’ reactions to patients wearing hijabs or other ethnic or religious attributes. The study indicates that healthcare providers face difficulties in conforming to the partially contradictory ideals of equal treatment and cultural sensitivity, whose relation to religious diversity has not yet been clearly defined.
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- Eriksson, Lise, Docent, 1977-
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Surrogatmoderskap i Norden
- 2016
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Ingår i: Ad Lucem. - Helsingfors : Finlands Kristliga Studentförbund. - 0355-9653. ; 105:1, s. 22-24
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