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Perceived religious discrimination in healthcare
Uppsala University, Sweden.
Uppsala University, Sweden.
Malmö University, Faculty of Health and Society (HS), Department of Social Work (SA).ORCID iD: 0000-0002-2620-7152
Uppsala University, Sweden.
2023 (English)In: Culture, Spirituality and Religious Literacy in Healthcare: Nordic Perspectives / [ed] Daniel Enstedt, Lisen Dellenborg, Routledge, 2023, p. 90-107Chapter in book (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

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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Routledge, 2023. p. 90-107
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Routledge Advances in the Medical Humanities, ISSN 2767-8121, E-ISSN 2767-8113
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Religious Studies
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URN: urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-64254DOI: 10.4324/9781003450573-7Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85173859740ISBN: 9781032320540 (print)ISBN: 9781003450573 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:mau-64254DiVA, id: diva2:1818688
Available from: 2023-12-11 Created: 2023-12-11 Last updated: 2023-12-11Bibliographically approved

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