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Can Information Influence the Social Insurance Participation Decision of China's Rural Migrants?

open access: yesJournal of Development Economics, 2018
This paper uses a randomized information intervention to shed light on whether poor understanding of social insurance, both the process of enrolling and costs and benefits, drives the relatively low rates of participation in urban health insurance and ...
John Giles   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Development and Validation of a Practical Instrument for Injury Prevention: The Occupational Safety and Health Monitoring and Assessment Tool (OSH-MAT)

open access: yesSafety and Health at Work, 2018
Background: The Occupational Safety and Health Monitoring and Assessment Tool (OSH-MAT) is a practical instrument that is currently used in the German woodworking and metalworking industries to monitor safety conditions at workplaces. The 12-item scoring
Yi Sun   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Impact of the automated dose dispensing with medication review on geriatric primary care patients drug use in Finland: a nationwide cohort study with matched controls

open access: yesScandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care, 2017
Objective: In an automated dose dispensing (ADD) service, medicines are dispensed in unit-dose bags according to administration times. When the service is initiated, the patient’s medication list is reconciled and a prescription review is conducted.
Juha Sinnemäki   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Assessing the effects of price regulation and freedom of choice on quality: evidence from the physiotherapy market

open access: yesHealth Economics Review, 2017
In health care, many aspects of the delivery of services are subject to regulation. Often the purpose of the regulated health care system is to encourage providers to keep costs down without skimping on quality.
Piia Pekola   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Unequal Use of Social Insurance Benefits: The Role of Employers

open access: yesSocial Science Research Network, 2018
California's Disability Insurance (DI) and Paid Family Leave (PFL) programs have become important sources of social insurance, with benefit payments now exceeding those of the state's Unemployment Insurance program.
S. Bana   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

No inflammatory effects after acute inhalation of barium sulfate particles in human volunteers

open access: yesBMC Pulmonary Medicine, 2022
Background Most threshold limit values are based on animal experiments. Often, the question remains whether these data reflect the situation in humans. As part of a series of investigations in our exposure lab, this study investigates whether the results
Christian Monsé   +14 more
doaj   +1 more source

Biomonitoring of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in firefighters at fire training facilities and in employees at respiratory protection and hose workshops

open access: yesFrontiers in Public Health, 2023
IntroductionPolycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are carcinogenic to humans and are formed by incomplete combustion. PAHs are always present during firefighting operations, and fire department members can be exposed to them in the workplace.MethodsIn ...
Stephan Koslitz   +11 more
doaj   +1 more source

From pool to profile: Social consequences of algorithmic prediction in insurance

open access: yesBig Data & Society, 2020
The use of algorithmic prediction in insurance is regarded as the beginning of a new era, because it promises to personalise insurance policies and premiums on the basis of individual behaviour and level of risk.
Alberto Cevolini, E. Esposito
semanticscholar   +1 more source

New cancer medicines in Europe 2010–2020: comparison of medicines with or without extensions of indications

open access: yesBMJ Open
Introduction During the last decade, extensions of therapeutic indications have been one of the most common methods to extend the lifecycle of a medical product in the post-authorisation phase and to increase the use and sales of medicines.
Kati Sarnola   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Occupational-class trends in diagnosis-specific sickness absence in Finland: a register-based observational study in 2011–2021

open access: yesBMJ Open
Objectives To examine the prevalence and days of long-term sickness absence (LTSA) by occupational class and by most important diagnostic groups in Finland during 2011–2021.Design Population-based cross-sectional study.Setting and participants National ...
Jenni Blomgren, Riku Perhoniemi
doaj   +1 more source

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