Transfer practices during acquired brain injury rehabilitation: a descent in the medical hierarchy

Karin Højbjerg; Ingrid Egerod; Ingrid Poulsen

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Transfer practices during acquired brain injury rehabilitation: a descent in the medical hierarchy

Karin Højbjerg, Ingrid Egerod, Ingrid Poulsen

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This chapter explores the role of healthcare organizations and their professionals in producing and reproducing inequality in health. Ethnographic fieldwork and interviews were conducted with key professionals involved in transferring patients with acquired brain injury from acute to subacute, and from subacute to stable rehabilitation. Our analytical framework combines Bourdieu’s theory of practice with Abbott’s concepts of jurisdiction. The study revealed a descent in specialization level and financial resources during patient trajectories, as well as changing patterns of decision-making practices affecting transfer. Paradoxically, many resources are available to save patients’ lives during the acute stage, but resources dwindle as the patient approaches long-term rehabilitation, thus perpetuating inequality in healthcare.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	New Dynamics of Disability and Rehabilitation : Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Editors	Ivan Harsløf, Ingrid Poulsen, Kristian Larsen
Number of pages	21
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date	May 2019
Edition	1
Pages	251-272
Chapter	11
ISBN (Print)	978-981-13-7345-9
ISBN (Electronic)	978-981-13-7346-6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-7346-6_11
Publication status	Published - May 2019

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New dynamics of disability and rehabilitation: Interdisciplinary perspectives
Harsløf, I. (ed.), Poulsen, I. (ed.) & Larsen, K. (ed.), 2019, 1 ed. London: Palgrave Macmillan. 240 p.
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Transfer practices during acquired brain injury rehabilitation: a descent in the medical hierarchy. / Højbjerg, Karin; Egerod, Ingrid; Poulsen, Ingrid.
New Dynamics of Disability and Rehabilitation: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. ed. / Ivan Harsløf; Ingrid Poulsen; Kristian Larsen. 1. ed. Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. p. 251-272.

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