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From Health Inequality to Digital Health Inequality: A Health Shift in the Digital Age

open access: yesYixue yu zhexue
Digital health inequality not only stems from the backwardness of health concepts, but also lies in the deep embedding of technological logic in social relations, as well as the erosion of medical health by the mutual embedding of capital and technology.
Yuchen ZHONG, Ruipeng LEI
doaj   +1 more source

Impact of Income Inequality on Health: Does Environment Quality Matter? [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper examines the link between health indicators, environmental variables and income inequalities. Theoretically, all the mechanisms developed in the literature underline a negative impact of income inequality on health status.
Alassane Drabo
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Multi‐Stage Social Value Orientation‐Based Lane‐Changing Driving for Autonomous Vehicles

open access: yesAdvanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
A multi‐stage SVO framework is developed to dynamically infer the social preferences of surrounding vehicles from human driving data. By combining offline learning, online SVO estimation, temporal intention tracking, and interaction‐aware planning, the framework enables autonomous vehicles to adapt lane‐changing decisions and trajectories to evolving ...
Nongrui Qin   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Inequality and Health: Is Housing Crowding the Link? [PDF]

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In this study we extend the literature (e.g. Deaton, 2002a; Kennedy and Kawachi, 1996; Wilkinson, 1996) by proposing a new mechanism through which income inequality can influence health.
Barbara Wolfe   +2 more
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AI‐Based Immortality: The Ethical Advantage of the Aretai Approach

open access: yesAI &Innovation, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The convergence of artificial intelligence, digital identity technologies, and biogerontological ambitions has produced a novel set of philosophical problems that have not yet been adequately addressed within mainstream bioethical discourse. Digital life extension—encompassing AI‐generated avatars, neural data preservation, mind uploading, and
Mirko Daniel Garasic
wiley   +1 more source

Trends in income inequality in the European Union: implications for health inequalities [PDF]

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The comparative analysis of income inequality across countries has acquired increasing importance in recent years. This paper is divided in two parts. The first one is focused on the analysis of income inequality in the European Union.
Jose Maria Sarabia   +2 more
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Causal analysis of trade loss from pathogens: A global study of foot and mouth disease impacts on meat exports

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Our general interest is in global trade loss from livestock pathogens, specifically exports. We adopt a causal inference approach that considers animal disease outbreaks over time as non‐staggered binary treatments with the potential for switching in (infection) and out of treatment (recovery) within the sample period. The outcome evolution of
Mohammad Maksudur Rahman   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

How cold is too cold? A theoretical analysis of the optimal trigger for index insurance for frost damage to crops

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Crop insurance is undoubtedly an extremely valuable element in protecting agricultural businesses, but in many cases standard indemnity‐based products have had very low uptake due to high transaction costs elevating premiums to unaffordable levels.
Amogh Prakasha Kumar   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

On Geographic Inequality in Japanese Regional Health Insurance [PDF]

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In Japan, economic stagnation due to the lack of aggregate demand has hit the regional health insurance system and this affects most retired pensioners. The fiscal state of insurers in rural areas deteriorated.
Kumagai, Narimasa
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