... capacity, which begins with another important reservation: Health promotion Organizational theory Denmark Ethnography Capacity building What is health promotion capacity? Often the concept is taken to designate the abilities of individual health promotion practitioners...

... they respond to recent organisational changes within the field. Design/methodology/approach Drawing upon a small series of semi‐structured interviews (n=14) with doctors from a public teaching hospital in Denmark, the paper adopts a constructivist framework to analyse personal biographies...

... state of Denmark in relation to Danish hearing health policies. Design/methodology/approach The paper is based on qualitative methods comprising observations and interviews in two hearing clinics. Findings The paper shows that rather than a “withdrawal” of the state there has been a process...

.... Anne‐Mette Hjalager can be contacted at: anne‐mette.hjalager@advance1.dk © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Trade unions Nurses Hospital management Public sector reform Change management Denmark The survey distinguishes between the “nearest” and “upper” management...

... provides an analysis of these challenges. Annegrete Juul Nielsen can be contacted at: ajn.ioa@cbs.dk © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 In Denmark, the municipalities are responsible for conducting population‐oriented disease prevention and health promotion activities...