Hulpbetoon en afwering. Het Friese Groene Kruis 1901-1980.

The aim of the cross societies' work is combating adversity which hits individual members and which is principle demands individual remedies. In this dissertation the activities of the societies are called health care arrangements. In the early years Frisian cross societies executed six health care arrangements, eighty years later this has grown to eighteen arrangements. For these arrangements there are collective, national and binding government regulations, based on the AWBZ and Dutch National Health legislation. In his Zorg en de Staat (Care and the State) De Swaan describes the process in which private services develop into services ased on government regulation, and he calls these processes collectivisation processes. On the basis of a description of the development of cross society activities in Friesland this dissertation answers three questions: 1. To what extent can we see this development of cross society activities in Friesland as an example of De Swaan's collectivisation process. 2. Who are the actors in the development of health care arrangements. 3. To what extent is this development in Friesland characteristic for cross society work in other Dutch provinces. Zie: Summary