Vocational education for health care workers in the Nordic countries compared

Håkon Høst; Lene Larsen

doi:10.4324/9781315414492-6

Vocational education for health care workers in the Nordic countries compared

Håkon Høst, Lene Larsen

Department of People and Technology

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Abstract

In all the Nordic countries, introduction of education for health care workers was part of building welfare states after Second World War. Central aims were public health care and education for all. The educations contributed to thousands of women entering the labour market, not as unskilled workers, but with a vocational education. Though auxiliary nurses are subordinate to the registered nurses, and low in the hierarchy of health care, the auxiliary nurse educations provided access to work in hospitals, and they soon became popular. Today health care worker education represents the largest VET educations, but their position in the labour market has become more fragile

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Vocational education in the Nordic countries : Learning from diversity
Editors	Christian Helms Jørgensen, Ole Johnny Olsen, Daniel Persson Thunquist
Number of pages	18
Place of Publication	New York
Publisher	Routledge
Publication date	1 Jun 2018
Pages	118-135
Chapter	6
ISBN (Print)	9781138219809
ISBN (Electronic)	9781315414492
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315414492-6
Publication status	Published - 1 Jun 2018

Series	Routledge Research in International and Comparative Education
Number	2

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Høst, Håkon ; Larsen, Lene. / Vocational education for health care workers in the Nordic countries compared. Vocational education in the Nordic countries: Learning from diversity. editor / Christian Helms Jørgensen ; Ole Johnny Olsen ; Daniel Persson Thunquist. New York : Routledge, 2018. pp. 118-135 (Routledge Research in International and Comparative Education; No. 2).

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Høst, H & Larsen, L 2018, Vocational education for health care workers in the Nordic countries compared. in C Helms Jørgensen, OJ Olsen & D Persson Thunquist (eds), Vocational education in the Nordic countries: Learning from diversity. Routledge, New York, Routledge Research in International and Comparative Education, no. 2, pp. 118-135. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315414492-6

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Vocational education in the Nordic countries: Learning from diversity. ed. / Christian Helms Jørgensen; Ole Johnny Olsen; Daniel Persson Thunquist. New York: Routledge, 2018. p. 118-135 (Routledge Research in International and Comparative Education; No. 2).

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Høst H, Larsen L. Vocational education for health care workers in the Nordic countries compared. In Helms Jørgensen C, Olsen OJ, Persson Thunquist D, editors, Vocational education in the Nordic countries: Learning from diversity. New York: Routledge. 2018. p. 118-135. (Routledge Research in International and Comparative Education; No. 2). doi: 10.4324/9781315414492-6