The (im)possibilities of returning to work after a stroke
| Autor: | Maria Norstedt |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
| Předmět: |
Employment
Male the work strategy 030506 rehabilitation media_common.quotation_subject Social Sciences Employability Social insurance 03 medical and health sciences Return to Work 0302 clinical medicine Health care Agency (sociology) Humans Disabled Persons Sociological imagination Qualitative Research media_common Sweden institutional ethnography business.industry Rehabilitation Public employment service Stroke Rehabilitation Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Samhällsvetenskap Middle Aged Public relations normality Work (electrical) workability Female 0305 other medical science business Psychology Welfare Social Welfare 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Swedish welfare |
| Zdroj: | Work. 56:637-647 |
| ISSN: | 1875-9270 1051-9815 |
| DOI: | 10.3233/wor-172521 |
| Popis: | Background What a stroke means for working-age persons has not been sufficiently studied from a sociological perspective. Objective This article uses the empirical material of a larger study to describe and analyze how institutional practices and discourses influence attempts to return to work after a stroke. Methods Semi-structured interviews were conducted with ten persons who have had a stroke and ten civil servants and professionals from the Swedish Public Employment Service, the Social Insurance Agency, and different health care institutions. The qualitative analysis was inspired by institutional ethnography. Results The analysis shows how persons who have had a stroke and civil servants and professionals in welfare organizations share the same goal: a return to working life for the former. The persons in this study related to, translated, and put into practice discourses of normality and employability in this process. However, there were, at times, conflicting institutional practices between the different organizations. Conclusions Conflicting institutional practices connected to the discourses of normality and employability contribute to the difficulties that persons who have had a stroke face when trying to return to work after recovery. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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