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Analysis of the Efficiency of the Prophylactic Rehabilitation Programme of the Polish Social Insurance Institution (ZUS) in the Opinions of Potential Insurance Beneficiaries

Barometr Regionalny. Analizy i Prognozy, 2017
Due to the fact that the number of the Polish Social Insurance Institution (ZUS ) pension beneficiaries has increased significantly, ZUS has introduced a programme of prophylactic activities basing on rehabilitation treatment. The assumptions of the rehabilitation programme are to improve and modify the everyday functioning of patients who are ...
Rafał Sapuła, Karolina Dymowska, Joanna Sapuła   +2 more
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Are the Elderly Really Over-Annuitized? New Evidence on Life Insurance and Bequests [PDF]

This paper provides evidence against the hypothesis that elderly individuals with strong bequest motives purchase term life insurance to offset mandatory annuitization by the existing Social Security system.
Jeffrey R. Brown
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Protection Motivation Theory and Farmers' Participation in Futures Markets: Evidence From Germany

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines why German farmers show limited adoption of commodity futures contracts despite substantial price volatility, applying Protection Motivation Theory (PMT) to understand the cognitive processes driving participation decisions in futures markets. Survey data from 303 German farmers collected in 2024 were analyzed using Partial
Hendrik Wever, Marius Michels, Oliver Musshoff   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Insurance Policy As Social Instrument and Social Institution

, 2010
Insurance policies are classified as a species of contract. Although this characterization is correct, it is unduly narrow if used as the exclusive lens for assessing insurance policies, which are not merely contracts but also are designed to perform ...
Stempel, Jeffrey W.
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Short‐Term Outcomes and Cost Drivers of Emergency Surgery for Acute Abdominal Disease in Super‐Elderly Patients: A Study in the Japanese Tertiary Care Hospital

Annals of Gastroenterological Surgery, EarlyView.
This retrospective study analyzed patients aged ≥ 85 years undergoing emergency abdominal surgery, focusing on short‐term outcomes and inpatient cost structure under the Japanese DPC system. Although major complications occurred in 19.4% of patients, more than 70% were discharged home.
Yuta Kobayashi, Ryo Oikawa, Yumi Shibuya, Masakazu Tatsuno, Atsuya Kamiyama, Tsuyoshi Ozawa, Keiichiro Hara, Shojiro Hata, Hirokazu Yamaguchi   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Outpatient healthcare use before and during a long-term sickness absence spell: a register-based follow-up study comparing healthcare use by the length of sickness absence and transition to disability pension in Finland

BMJ Open, 2022
Jenni Blomgren, Riku Perhoniemi
doaj   +1 more source

NON-AGRICULTURAL ECONOMIC ACTIVITY IN THE SYSTEMS OF PUBLIC SOCIAL INSURANCE AND SOCIAL INSURANCE FOR FARMERS

, 2017
The aim of the study was to compare conducting economic activity by people covered by social insurance and by social insurance for farmers in the years 2013-2017.
Wasag, Z., Zbigniew Wasąg
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Relationship Between Hospital Volume and Outcomes of Minimally Invasive Esophagectomy for Esophageal Cancer: Analysis of the National Clinical Database in Japan

Annals of Gastroenterological Surgery, EarlyView.
According to multivariable analysis conducted using a hierarchical logistic regression model, using VHH as the reference group, the odds ratios for mortality by hospital volume category were as follows: VLH, 2.70 (p < 0.0001); LH, 1.72 (p = 0.052); MH, 1.70 (p = 0.034); and HH, 1.43 (p = 0.173).
Soji Ozawa, Hiraku Kumamaru, Yuko Kitagawa, Kazuo Koyanagi, Junya Oguma, Harushi Udagawa, Hiroaki Miyata, Yasushi Toh, Hisahiro Matsubara   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Great Promise of Inclusion?

Disabilities
Inclusion has become a central concept in disability policy, education, and welfare state reform, yet its practical implementation remains ambivalent. While inclusion is promoted as a rights-based ideal grounded in equality, it can also function as an ...
Antti Teittinen
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Old-Age Pension Insurance in ZUS and KRUS in the Context of the Insured and Public Finances

Studia Ekonomiczne i Regionalne, 2019
Subject and purpose of work: The subject of this paper was to assess the old-age pension insurance in ZUS (Social Insurance Institution) and KRUS (Agricultural Social Insurance Fund) from the perspective of a person insured and the public finances.
Podstawka Łukasz
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