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Differences in medical specialist utilization among older people in need of long-term care – results from German health claims data

open access: yesInternational Journal for Equity in Health, 2020
Background Elderly in need of long-term care tend to have worse health and have higher need of medical care than elderly without need for long-term care.
Maike Schulz   +10 more
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The dilemma of “sustainable welfare” and the problem of the future in capacitating social policy

open access: yesSustainability: Science, Practice, & Policy, 2022
This article discusses a dilemma of welfare states in the ecological transition. While the principle of “sustainability” is increasingly accepted, there are very different concrete declinations of it.
Francesco Laruffa
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Inequality and Social Discounting [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Political Economy, 2007
We explore steady‐state inequality in an intergenerational model with altruistically linked individuals who experience privately observed taste shocks. When the welfare function depends only on the initial generation, efficiency requires immiseration: inequality grows without bound and everyone’s consumption converges to zero.
Werning, Ivan, Farhi, Emmanuel
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The Noborder Movement: Interpersonal Struggle with Political Ideals

open access: yesSocial Inclusion, 2017
Over the last decade, self-organized refugee protests in Europe have increased. One strand of activism in Europe, noborder, involves a transnational network of people who are heterogeneous with regards to legal status, race, or individual history of ...
Leslie Gauditz
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Changing Attitudes Towards Gender Equality in Switzerland (2000–2017): Period, Cohort and Life-Course Effects

open access: yesSwiss Journal of Sociology, 2020
This paper investigates trends in Swiss women’s and men’s gender attitudes in the period 2000–2017 using the Swiss Household Panel data. Based on pooled OLS and fixed-effects models, we establish the following for women and men: (1) over this time period,
Bornatici Christina   +2 more
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Measuring the effectiveness of digital nursing technologies: development of a comprehensive digital nursing technology outcome framework based on a scoping review

open access: yesBMC Health Services Research, 2020
Background Digital nursing technologies (DNT) comprise an expanding, highly diverse field of research, explored using a wide variety of methods and tools.
Tobias Krick   +4 more
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Inequality, fairness and social capital

open access: yesEuropean Economic Review, 2020
We study the impact of unjust inequality on social trust and trustworthiness, and its separate effect on the economically successful and the unsuccessful, in a controlled economic experiment. We find evidence for a negative effect of unfair economic inequality on social interactions.
Yilong Xu   +4 more
openaire   +6 more sources

Profiles of travelers to intermediate-high health risk areas following the reopening of borders in the COVID-19 crisis: A clustering approach

open access: yesTravel Medicine and Infectious Disease, 2023
Background: The reactivation of international travel in 2021 has created a new scenario in which the profile of the traveler to medium-high health risk areas may well have changed.
Nidia M. García-Marín   +3 more
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Region of birth differences in healthcare navigation and optimisation: the interplay of racial discrimination and socioeconomic position

open access: yesInternational Journal for Equity in Health, 2022
Background While a large body of research has documented socioeconomic and migrant inequities in the effective use of healthcare services, the reasons underlying such inequities are yet to be fully understood.
Ivana Paccoud   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The deployment of social media by political authorities and health experts to enhance public information during the COVID-19 pandemic

open access: yesSSM: Population Health, 2022
Social media have increasingly been used by political bodies and experts to disseminate health information to the public. However, we still know little about how the communication of these actors on social media is received by other users and how it ...
Maud Reveilhac
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