An Assessment of Customer's Preferences on the Selection of Takaful Over Conventional: a Case of Saudi Arabia [PDF]
, 2018 This paper aims at assessing the motivational factors that influence the customer's preferences of Takaful over conventional insurance. The customers' information about the Takaful products and services based on sharia are identified in order to enable ...
Nazir, F. (Faisal), Noor, A. B. (Azman)
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British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, EarlyView.Introduction In recent years, the treatment of spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), a rare disease, has significantly progressed, improving patients' survival and overall quality of life. However, current SMA treatments are expensive, and some (nusinersen) are very inconvenient for patients.
Andrej Belančić +4 more
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Credit Rationing in the U.S. Mortgage Market: Evidence from Variation in FHA Market Shares [PDF]
, 2002 This paper examines the nature of mortgage credit rationing across geographic markets and time. Particular attention is paid to the response of conventional mortgage supply to higher risk conditions associated with regional recessions.
Ambrose, Brent W +2 more
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How the HTAR will contribute to a value‐based decision‐making for medicinal products across the EU
British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, EarlyView.The European Union Health Technology Regulation 2021/2282 (HTAR) introduces joint assessment of health technologies (including medicinal products and medical devices) across EU Member States. It was signed into law in 2021 and came into full force in January 2025.
Roisin Adams, Michal Stanak
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Reforming health care : a case for stay well health insurance [PDF]
All countries - whether industrial, developing, or in transition to a market economy - are interested in health care reform. A central focus of reform everywhere is to make patients more responsive to health care costs without diluting the protection ...
Bogetic, Zeljko, Heffley, Dennis
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The Demand for Insurance: Expected Utility Theory from a Gain Perspective [PDF]
, 2001 Expected utility theory holds that the demand for insurance is a demand for certainty, because under the conventional specification of the theory, it appears as if buyers of insurance prefer certain losses to actuarially equivalent uncertain ones ...
Nyman, John A.
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Efficacy, safety and cost‐effectiveness of CAR‐T therapy
British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, EarlyView.CAR T‐cells demonstrate high efficacy in blood cancers, including ALL, MM and DLBCL. Innovations target solid tumours despite challenges such as antigen escape. Combination therapies enhance the delivery and infiltration of CAR T cells. Toxicity, cost and resistance remain major barriers to clinical use.
Emina Karahmet Sher +7 more
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Catastrophic Drought Insurance based on the Remotely Sensed Normalized Difference Vegetation Index for Smallholder Farmers in Zimbabwe [PDF]
Index insurance, which indemnifies agricultural producers based on an objectively observable variable that is highly correlated with production losses but which cannot be influenced by the producer, can provide adequate protection against catastrophic ...
Makaudze, Ephias M., Miranda, Mario J.
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British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, EarlyView.Abstract Introduction Active surveillance of adverse events using healthcare data is emerging as complementary to the monitoring of spontaneous reports and stand‐alone pharmacoepidemiologic studies. The risk of urinary tract infections (UTIs) was listed as a special warning for sodium‐glucose cotransporter‐2 inhibitors (SGLT2is) when marketed in Europe
Haoxin Le +5 more
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The effect of increased part-charges on the health-seeking behaviours of Group 3 workers and their families : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master in Arts (social policy) at Massey University [PDF]
, 1995 This thesis is about health, change and user charges. In 1991 New Zealand embarked in a new direction for the funding of health services, including extensive use of a targeting regime in which 'those that can afford' social services were paying more so ...
Haas, M. Beth
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