Postdoctoral Fellow
1.8.2015-31.7.2017
Office: Atalpa 212
Tel: 040 190 1675
Email: liina-kaisa.tynkkynen@uta.fi
Background
Initially I come from the field of public health (M.Sc. in 2009) and got my PhD in health and social policy in 2013. The topic of my PhD thesis was “Toward partnership? – Studies of public-private collaboration in health and elderly care services in Finland”.
Research interests
- Health care systems and health care reforms
- Primary health care practices
- Integrated care
- Private sector and marketization
Current projects
- Health Systems and Policy Monitor (European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, THL, University of Tampere).
- Social Inequalities in Ageing (SIA); health, care and institutional reforms in the Nordic welfare model (Karolinska Institutet, University of Tampere, University of Stockholm)
- Privatizing the health care sector: Expansion of voluntary, private health insurance and private for-profit hospitals in the Nordic countries (University of Oslo, University of Copenhagen, University of Tampere)
- The global financial crisis and the public sector in the Nordic countries (University of Agder, University of Oslo, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm University, University of Copenhagen, University of Southern Denmark, Danish Institute of Governmental Research, University of Helsinki, University of Eastern Finland, National Institute for Health & Welfare, Tampere University). Access to website:
- VALINT: Perusterveydenhuollon asiakaslähtöiset toimintamallit – valinnanvapautta ja integraatiota? (National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL), University of Tampere)