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HEALTH BY NUMBERS: Statistics as a technology of governance in municipal health services.

Tildelt: kr 4,6 mill.

This project asks: How do statistics function as a tool of governance in municipal health services? We address this question by - studying in detail the negotiation, production, analysis, deployment, and assessment of health services statistics - focusin g especially on three statistics systems * DRGs currently undergoing development towards usage in municipal health services, * IPLOS, which municipalities have been instructed to use as of 2006 but which are currently being contested, and * local systems of similar content and usages. We will study these both top-down and bottom-up, focusing on five strategically selected municipalities -- one large, three medium-large, and one small. Besides size differences, the municipalities will represent political a nd economic parameters likely to be relevant for statistics practices. The case study data will be supplemented with national survey data and with studies of academic and mass media discourses and official documents. The project will collaborate closely w ith the "Storforsk" project, "For Whom the Bell Curves".

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