Læknablaðið - 15.09.1990, Blaðsíða 15

LÆKNABLAÐIÐ
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A study was carried out in Gothenburg 1986 with
the aim of developing and testing hypotheses
on non-physical territoriality in health care
organizations in Sweden. Similar studies were
performed in the other Nordic countries. This
survey is number two of five subsequent articles
with the results from Iceland. In this paper two
hypotheses were tested:
1. Different professional groups have different
norms and values guiding the way tasks should be
performed.
2. The members of a professional group do not
want to include troublesome, negatively valued, and
low status tasks in their territory.
The results confirmed the first mentioned
hypothesis. GPs more often include holistic view
in their norms and values. They pay more attention
to psychological and social aspects and the state of
health and social conditions in the patients families
than other specialists in Iceland do.
Furthermore, the Icelandic physicians do not
agree that a patient with multiple and/or diffuse
symptoms combined with social and psychological
problems ought not to be examined and treated
within the medical health care. The majority thinks
that the GP should examine and treat these patients.
The GPs agree more strongly on this subject than
other specialists in Iceland.
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