Chapter 6 Perceived religious discrimination in healthcare

Swedish healthcare providers must comply with the Patient Act's principles of equal and accessible care and account for patients’ religious backgrounds by offering culturally sensitive care. This chapter explores what characterizes patients’ and their relatives’ expectations in healthcare encounters...

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description Swedish healthcare providers must comply with the Patient Act's principles of equal and accessible care and account for patients’ religious backgrounds by offering culturally sensitive care. This chapter explores what characterizes patients’ and their relatives’ expectations in healthcare encounters perceived as religiously discriminatory in the diverse Swedish healthcare system. It analyses perceived religious discrimination in healthcare through the interpretative phenomenological analysis of complaints submitted to the Equality Ombudsman in Sweden from 2012 to 2021, which registered 92 complaints as religious discrimination in healthcare, 66 of which were included in this study's analytical sample. The complaints addressed unfulfilled expectations related to cultural and religious literacy, equal treatment in relation to religious symbols or medical records, affirmative action in medical treatment that takes beliefs into account, and a secular environment that forbids religious symbols in healthcare encounters. One-third of the complaints were submitted by Muslims or individuals presumed to be Muslim. Several complaints concerned healthcare providers’ reactions to patients wearing hijabs or other ethnic or religious attributes. The study indicates that healthcare providers face difficulties in conforming to the partially contradictory ideals of equal treatment and cultural sensitivity, whose relation to religious diversity has not yet been clearly defined.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-1316602025-03-12T16:00:16Z Chapter 6 Perceived religious discrimination in healthcare Enstedt, Daniel Dellenborg, Lisen practical application of research; healthcare; Sweden; religion; culture; spirituality; serious and life-limiting illness; Healthcare professionals; Nordic countries bic Book Industry Communication::M Medicine::MB Medicine: general issues::MBP Health systems & services bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFF Social issues & processes::JFFH Illness & addiction: social aspects Swedish healthcare providers must comply with the Patient Act's principles of equal and accessible care and account for patients’ religious backgrounds by offering culturally sensitive care. This chapter explores what characterizes patients’ and their relatives’ expectations in healthcare encounters perceived as religiously discriminatory in the diverse Swedish healthcare system. It analyses perceived religious discrimination in healthcare through the interpretative phenomenological analysis of complaints submitted to the Equality Ombudsman in Sweden from 2012 to 2021, which registered 92 complaints as religious discrimination in healthcare, 66 of which were included in this study's analytical sample. The complaints addressed unfulfilled expectations related to cultural and religious literacy, equal treatment in relation to religious symbols or medical records, affirmative action in medical treatment that takes beliefs into account, and a secular environment that forbids religious symbols in healthcare encounters. One-third of the complaints were submitted by Muslims or individuals presumed to be Muslim. Several complaints concerned healthcare providers’ reactions to patients wearing hijabs or other ethnic or religious attributes. The study indicates that healthcare providers face difficulties in conforming to the partially contradictory ideals of equal treatment and cultural sensitivity, whose relation to religious diversity has not yet been clearly defined. 2023-12-07T04:19:12Z 2023-12-07T04:19:12Z 2023-12-06T14:00:55Z 2024 chapter https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/85791 9781032320540 9781032585536 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/131660 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/85791/1/9781003450573_10.10.4324_9781003450573-7.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/85791/1/9781003450573_10.10.4324_9781003450573-7.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/85791/1/9781003450573_10.10.4324_9781003450573-7.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9781003450573-7 10.4324/9781003450573-7 fa69b019-f4ee-4979-8d42-c6b6c476b5f0 Culture, Spirituality and Religious Literacy in Healthcare Uppsala Universitet 8cdaec7c-855c-462a-a7ec-40efd079522d 9781032320540 9781032585536 Routledge 19 open access
spellingShingle practical application of research; healthcare; Sweden; religion; culture; spirituality; serious and life-limiting illness; Healthcare professionals; Nordic countries
bic Book Industry Communication::M Medicine::MB Medicine: general issues::MBP Health systems & services
bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFF Social issues & processes::JFFH Illness & addiction: social aspects
Chapter 6 Perceived religious discrimination in healthcare
title Chapter 6 Perceived religious discrimination in healthcare
title_full Chapter 6 Perceived religious discrimination in healthcare
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topic practical application of research; healthcare; Sweden; religion; culture; spirituality; serious and life-limiting illness; Healthcare professionals; Nordic countries
bic Book Industry Communication::M Medicine::MB Medicine: general issues::MBP Health systems & services
bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFF Social issues & processes::JFFH Illness & addiction: social aspects
topic_facet practical application of research; healthcare; Sweden; religion; culture; spirituality; serious and life-limiting illness; Healthcare professionals; Nordic countries
bic Book Industry Communication::M Medicine::MB Medicine: general issues::MBP Health systems & services
bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFF Social issues & processes::JFFH Illness & addiction: social aspects
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