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Sickness absence transitions among Swedish twins with back, neck or shoulder pain and common mental disorders applying a multi-state approach

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2023
We aimed to investigate transitions to and from sickness absence, or disability pension among individuals with back, neck, or shoulder pain and/or with common mental disorders (CMDs), and the role of familial (genetics and shared environment) influences ...
Sanna Kärkkäinen   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Integrating gender into index-based agricultural insurance: a focus on South Africa [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Index insurance is an agricultural risk management tool that can provide a safety net for smallholder farmers experiencing climate risk. While uptake and scale-out of index insurance may be slow among smallholders, we can learn from experiences that ...
Born, Lorna   +2 more
core   +1 more source

On Robots and Insurance [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Journal of Social Robotics, 2016
Does a robot producer, owner or user need insurance policy? What kind of risks derive from the use of robots? Are there any differences between insuring a robot and another product? And finally, who should bear the burden of paying the insurance premium?
BERTOLINI, Andrea   +8 more
openaire   +3 more sources

To insure or not to insure? Promoting trust and cooperation with insurance advice in markets

open access: yesEuropean Economic Review, 2021
We design a novel insurance advice mechanism aimed at promoting trust and cooperation in markets with asymmetric information. In a buyer-seller game, sellers are given the option to advise buyers on whether to purchase third-party insurance against the potential losses from the opportunistic behavior of strategic sellers. The theoretical model suggests
Franziska Tausch   +3 more
openaire   +2 more sources

On the Role of Risk Perceptions in Cyber Insurance Contracts [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2022
Risk perceptions are essential in cyber insurance contracts. With the recent surge of information, human risk perceptions are exposed to the influences from both beneficial knowledge and fake news. In this paper, we study the role of the risk perceptions of the insurer and the user in cyber insurance contracts.
arxiv  

Modifying effects of education on the association between lifestyle behaviors and the risk of obesity: evidence from South Korea

open access: yesBMC Public Health, 2016
Background No previous study has explored the interactions between education and lifestyle in relation to obesity. This study hypothesized that education may be obesogenic through its interplay with lifestyle behaviors.
Woojin Chung   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Risk factors for Bell’s palsy based on the Korean National Health Insurance Service National Sample Cohort data

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2021
The associations between hypertension, diabetes, and dyslipidemia with Bell’s palsy have been controversial and only a few studies have assessed risk factors for Bell’s palsy based on population-based data.
Junhui Jeong   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

The role of sickness absence diagnosis for the risk of future inpatient- or specialized outpatient care in a Swedish population-based twin sample

open access: yesBMC Public Health, 2021
Background Studies of consequences of sickness absence such as health and well-being have been rare whereas risk factors for sickness absence have been studied extensively.
Annina Ropponen   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Screening disability insurance applications [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This paper investigates the effects of stricter screening of disability insurance applications. A large-scale experiment was setup where in two of the 26 Dutch regions case workers of the disability insurance administration were instructed to screen ...
A Nevins   +15 more
core   +2 more sources

Strategies to reduce the cancer burden and improve access to effective and affordable cancer interventions in Europe

open access: yesMolecular Oncology, EarlyView.
Comprehensive cancer centre (CCCs) and CCCs of Excellence (CCCoE) integration in healthcare. Through outreach to surrounding community hospitals, CCCs enable wider access to top‐clinical cancer treatments and care, thereby facilitating the swift enrolment of patients into data‐rich clinical trials (PI‐initiated trials testing new concepts, drug ...
Anton Berns   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

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