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Function analysis in nonprofit organization and volunteer network of health care system reformation

Research Project

Project/Area Number 12410059
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field 社会学(含社会福祉関係)
Research InstitutionShukutoku University

Principal Investigator

TOKII Satoshi  Shukutoku University, Sociology, Professor, 社会学部, 教授 (60197861)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) UEDA Kensaku  Kochi University, Humanity and Science, Professor, 人文学部, 教授 (90248625)
Project Period (FY) 2000 – 2002
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2002)
Budget Amount *help
¥9,000,000 (Direct Cost: ¥9,000,000)
Fiscal Year 2002: ¥1,400,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,400,000)
Fiscal Year 2001: ¥1,500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,500,000)
Fiscal Year 2000: ¥6,100,000 (Direct Cost: ¥6,100,000)
Keywordshealth care system / Non profit organization / profession / networking / citizens participation / social making consensus / volunteer / decision making in allocating the public goods / 専門職(Profession)
Research Abstract

We were able to obtain a lot of findings through our questioners, interview survey. It should be especially noted that there are two component parts in the nonprofit sector of United States. One consists of the nonprofit organizations that leads and supplements the formal health care system, another that departs from it. Generally the former consists of many medical facilities, such as hospitals and nursing home. Some of these organizations have transformed into the for-profit and another has been faced with the conflict between voluntarism and management, as the preeminence of the market makes progress in the medical industry. The latter is supported largely by grass roots and civic voluntary actions. There is a broad cooperation and collaboration with the medical professions, the citizens or the clients, by which the health care services are provided and by which the efforts to solve the problems remaining in the formal health care system are performed.
Based on these pictures, we wil … More l urge that we should appreciate the influence of the voluntary actions performed at the nonprofit organizations on the formal health care system as the follows. Against the background of the development of the medicine and medical technology, today the relation between the medical professions and the clients in the formal system have been segmentized deadly and the medical professions' practice have been divided into several specialized parts, and thus the comprehensive ability to be essentially in the medical practice is likely to break up. However, grass roots nonprofit organizations try to restore the comprehensive ability to be essentially in the medical practices through reconstructing the cooperative or collaborative relation among medical professions and between the public and medical profession. By doing so, they are posing the problems to be solved to the side of a formal system on the basis of findings from their activities. But the activities of these organizations remain from beginning to end in piecemeal approach - that is, there are very few networks and cooperation in their activities. There could be a social structure and awareness inherent in United States that let most American accept the health care services only as market goods. Nevertheless we can suggest fairly that there are a number of activities of the nonprofit organizations, especially community organizations, which would build a new social value (new public good) taking over from this old. Less

Report

(4 results)
  • 2002 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report Summary
  • 2001 Annual Research Report
  • 2000 Annual Research Report
  • Research Products

    (3 results)

All Other

All Publications (3 results)

  • [Publications] 時井 聰: "専門職論再考-保健医療観の自律性の変容と保健医療専門職の自律性の変質-"株式会社 学文社(発行者 田中 千津子). 240 (2002)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2002 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Satoshi Tokii: "Reconsideration of Profession Theory"Gakubun-sha. 240 (2002)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2002 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 時井 聰: "専門職論再考-保健医療観の自律性の変容と保健医療専門職の自律性の変質-"株式会社 学文社(発行者 田中 千津子). 240 (2002)

    • Related Report
      2002 Annual Research Report

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Published: 2000-04-01   Modified: 2016-04-21  

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