Varieties of improvement expertise : Knowledge and contestation in health-care improvement

© 2023 The Authors. Sociology of Health & Illness published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of Foundation for the Sociology of Health & Illness..

The 'improvement' of health care is now established and growing as a field of research and practice. This article, based on qualitative data from interviews with 21 senior leaders in this field, analyses the growth of improvement expertise as not simply an expansion but also a multiplication of 'ways of knowing'. It illustrates how health-care improvement is an area where contests about relevant kinds of knowledge, approaches and purposes proliferate and intersect. One dimension of this story relates to the increasing relevance of sociological expertise-both as a disciplinary contributor to this arena of research and practice and as a spur to reflexive critique. The analysis highlights the threat of persistent hierarchies within improvement expertise reproducing and amplifying restricted conceptions of both improvement and 'better' health care.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:45

Enthalten in:

Sociology of health & illness - 45(2023), 4 vom: 27. Mai, Seite 734-753

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Cribb, Alan [VerfasserIn]
Entwistle, Vikki [VerfasserIn]
Mitchell, Polly [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Expertise
Health service organisations
Journal Article
Norms and values
Quality of care
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Research and policy
Sociology of scientific knowledge

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Date Completed 01.05.2023

Date Revised 04.09.2023

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1111/1467-9566.13616

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM352175885