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That's Not Fair! Navigating the Duality of Fairness in Insurance

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Insurance serves as a social good, providing financial protection against disasters whilst operating within a profit‐driven market. This dual role highlights the complex intersection of social and commercial interests, raising a fairness puzzle often portrayed as a trade‐off between solidarity and actuarial fairness.
Konstantinos Chalkias, Paula Jarzabkowski, Mustafa Kavas, Elisabeth Krull   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Out-of-pocket payment and catastrophic health expenditure of tuberculosis patients in accessing care at public-private mix clinics in Myanmar, 2022. [PDF]

Infect Dis Poverty
Khaing MNT, U N, Maw L, Arkar H, Naing SPP, Thet MM.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Does Proactivity Affect Insurance Solidarity and Individual Responsibility?

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Over the past 20 years, the insurance industry has been experimenting with technological innovations that deeply affect its business model and social function. This article explores the use of digital technologies to monitor policyholders' behaviour and personalise their insurance coverage.
Alberto Cevolini, Elena Esposito
wiley   +1 more source

Catastrophic Health Expenditure among Iranian Households: Evidence from the COVID-19 Era. [PDF]

Med J Islam Repub Iran
Sheikhy-Chaman M, Rezapour A, Aryankhesal A, Aboutorabi A.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The Study of Catastrophic Health Expenditure (CHE) for Hospitalization in Urban Kerala

, 2023
Philip PJ, Panda GR.
europepmc   +1 more source

Insurance and the “Irrationalization” of Disaster Policy: A Political Crisis Theory for an Age of Climate Risk

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In the last several years, disaster insurance programs around the world have experienced disruptions that many observers interpret to be a primary symptom of “climate crisis” (Bittle 2024). Governments have responded to these disruptions through disjointed and at times contradictory measures: they treat disasters, alternately, as “Acts of God”
Stephen J. Collier
wiley   +1 more source

Description, Articulation and Limitations in the Social Theory of Insurance

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT There have been surprisingly few sustained efforts to explain or theorise the role insurance plays in society. Even the most theoretically inflected insurance scholarship, emanating from governmentality and Actor Network Theory scholarship, tends to be grounded in empirical cases, set in particular periods and places, and it is often ...
Liz McFall
wiley   +1 more source

Experiences of Women and Clinicians During the Introduction of Uterine Transplantation to the UK: A Qualitative Case Study

BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics &Gynaecology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective To explore the experiences of women and clinicians during the introduction of uterine transplantation (UTx) to the UK. Design A qualitative study utilising prospective case study methodology (interviews and observations) over 6 years.
Daisy Elliott, Richard J. Smith, Maeve Coyle, Rhiannon Macefield, Saliha Vali, Anni King, Natalie Blencowe, Cynthia Ochieng, Christin Hoffmann, Isabel Quiroga, Ben P. Jones, Ariadne L'Heveder, Kerry N. L. Avery, Jane M. Blazeby   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Effects of Green Finance on Economic Growth and Renewable Energy in Developing Countries: A Panel Cointegration Analysis

Natural Resources Forum, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This empirical study examines the impact of green finance on economic growth and renewable energy in a group of 76 developing nations in 2010–2019. Results from a cointegration analysis, vector error correction model, and Granger causality test confirm a cointegrating relationship between green finance, renewable energy, economic growth, and ...
Xuan‐Hoa Nghiem, Walid Bakry, Girijasankar Mallik   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Queen Anne's Wardrobe: Fashion, Sartorial Politics, and the Representational Strategies of the Last Stuart Queen

Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract The final Stuart monarch, Queen Anne, has often been overlooked in studies of visual and material culture, particularly of fashion and dress. This article is the first to undertake a qualitative and quantitative analysis of the wardrobe accounts of Queen Anne, situating her consumption within the context of the eighteenth‐century fashion ...
Sarah A. Bendall
wiley   +1 more source