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Sociology and Anthropology Vol. 4(7), pp. 561 - 573
DOI: 10.13189/sa.2016.040707
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Professional Health Sociologists and the Crisis of the Italian Health System: A Pilot, Exploratory Study within Mental Health and Addiction Departments through an Electronic-DELPHI
Pietro Paolo Guzzo 1,2,*, Paolo Ugolini 3
1 School of Medicine, Sociology Professor, Bari University, Italy
2 Board of Directors of the Italian Society of Health Sociology (S.I.S.S.), Istituzione Minguzzi, Via Sant'Isaia, Italy
3 Mental Health and Addiction Department, Coordinator of the Epidemiological Observatory, Local Health Authority of Romagna, Italy
ABSTRACT
This qualitative, pilot and exploratory study1 is part of an ongoing research project conducted by Societ脿 Italiana di Sociologia della Salute, (Italian Society of Health Sociology, hereinafter SISS)2 including academic and professional Italian health sociologists. The Literature on interprofessionalism/managerialism and the various roles of these health professions as "boundary spanners", gate-keepers and mediators, is still lacking in relation to the Italian Healthcare System (Servizio Sanitario Nazionale, hereinafter SSN) and its prolonged poli-crisis, from the point of view of Italian Health Sociologists employed within the SSN. In particular, in Italian Literature, empirical study does not exist on the representations and perceptions of interprofessionalism within this field. The aim of this qualitative essay is to present a counterpoint in the form of an explorative pilot study focused on a group of 17 Italian Professional Health Sociologists working in Mental Health and Addiction departments in the SSN. Here we consider the Professional Italian SSN Sociologist as an agent of change in the SSN transformation plan, and as a vehicle for interprofessionality.
KEYWORDS
Sociologist, Italian Health Care System, Crisis, Agent of Change, Interprofessionality, Electronic Delphi, Pilot Study
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(a). IEEE Format:
[1] Pietro Paolo Guzzo , Paolo Ugolini , "Professional Health Sociologists and the Crisis of the Italian Health System: A Pilot, Exploratory Study within Mental Health and Addiction Departments through an Electronic-DELPHI," Sociology and Anthropology, Vol. 4, No. 7, pp. 561 - 573, 2016. DOI: 10.13189/sa.2016.040707.
(b). APA Format:
Pietro Paolo Guzzo , Paolo Ugolini (2016). Professional Health Sociologists and the Crisis of the Italian Health System: A Pilot, Exploratory Study within Mental Health and Addiction Departments through an Electronic-DELPHI. Sociology and Anthropology, 4(7), 561 - 573. DOI: 10.13189/sa.2016.040707.