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Psychosocial work environment and emotional exhaustion--Does a service provision model play a role?

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  • Koponen, Anne M.
  • Laamanen, Ritva
  • Simonsen-Rehn, Nina
  • Sundell, Jari
  • Brommels, Mats
  • Suominen, Sakari

Abstract

Objectives To investigate whether outsourcing of primary health care (PHC) services has affected the psychosocial work environment and emotional exhaustion.Methods Panel mail study 2000-2002 in Finland, 369 PHC employees. Comparison between Southern municipality (SM) after outsourcing PHC services to a not-for-profit organization and three municipalities with municipal service providers.Results Despite the positive development of the psychosocial work environment in SM, emotional exhaustion had increased there like in the comparison municipalities. However, in 2002 emotional exhaustion was at a lower level in SM than in one of the comparison municipalities. This difference could not be attributed to the production model itself but rather to baseline levels and changes in work demands and work resources.Conclusions Outsourcing of PHC services may improve employee health and thus effectiveness of health care if a new service provider emphasizes employee health more than a previous one and is more flexible to improve the quality of the psychosocial work environment. However, change itself may be stressful, and frequent changes of service providers should be avoided.

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  • Koponen, Anne M. & Laamanen, Ritva & Simonsen-Rehn, Nina & Sundell, Jari & Brommels, Mats & Suominen, Sakari, 2010. "Psychosocial work environment and emotional exhaustion--Does a service provision model play a role?," Health Policy, Elsevier, vol. 94(2), pages 111-119, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:hepoli:v:94:y:2010:i:2:p:111-119
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