🎓Variants of the democratisation of the German health care system -a survey on the design of citizen participation

Doctoral project at a glance

In recent years, the collective participation of citizens has increasingly found its way into the German health care system in order to make health policy decisions that better meet the needs of patients. Because of the challenges in the implementation of collective participation as well as the ongoing discussion about the democratic deficit in the German health care system, PhD student SANDRA WRZEZIONO examined the understanding of democracy of citizens by means of qualitative interviews. The project aims to shed more light on the implications for the future design of institutionalized citizen participation.

Keywords

Gesundheit

Departments and Instituts

Department of Social Policy and Social Security Studies

Period

09.06.2020 to 08.06.2025

Supervising professor

Project Description

In recent years, the collective participation of citizens has increasingly found its way into the German health care system in order to make health policy decisions that better meet the needs of patients. Because of the challenges in the implementation of collective participation  as well as the ongoing discussion about the democratic deficit in the German health care system, PhD student Sandra Wrzeziono examined  the understanding of democracy of citizens by means of qualitative interviews. The project aimed to shed more light on the implications for the future design of institutionalized citizen participation.