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THE ESSENCE OF SOCIAL SECURITY SYSTEM IN POLAND [PDF]

open access: yesZeszyty Naukowe Wyższej Szkoły Finansów i Prawa w Bielsku-Białej, 2015
The article discusses the Polish social security system and includes the analysis of three areas: social security system, social provisions and social assistance. Special attention is paid to basic characteristics of these systems and the normative basis
Elżbieta A. Maj
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Overcoming goal displacement and power displacement in social service provision

open access: goldScandinavian Journal of Disability Research, 2009
Disabled people in their encounters with social authorities often experience them as knowing better and of little help. Social service authorities often lose sight of their actual goal of assisting clients to have greater opportunities to participate in ...
Steen Bengtsson
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Corporate social responsibility in public health provision: Community members’ assessment

open access: goldCogent Medicine, 2019
Mining companies often deliver various health interventions for respective mining enclaves yet,  majority of these services often apply a top-down approach with limited community involvement.
Williams Agyemang-Duah   +6 more
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Sociodemographic, clinical and laboratory characteristics and risk factors for mortality of hospitalized COVID-19 patients at alternate care site: a Latin American experience

open access: yesAnnals of Medicine, 2023
Background The establishment of Alternate Care Sites (ACS) helped the most severely impacted countries expand their response capability. The aim of this study was to evaluate the clinical characteristics and risk factors associated with the mortality of ...
Jorge A. Alegría-Baños   +7 more
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Social Pressure in Networks Induces Public Good Provision

open access: yesGames, 2021
I develop a dynamic model with forward looking agents, and show that social pressure is effective in generating provision in a public good game: after a small group of agents start contributing to the public good, other agents decide to contribute as ...
David Jimenez-Gomez
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Local Self-Government Transformations in Ukraine and Reforms of Social Services: Expectations and Challenges [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
On January 1, 2020, the Law “On Social Services” comes into force in Ukraine. The new legislation sets up the responsibilities for the executive bodies of city councils, councils of cities of regional significance, councils of united territorial ...
Semigina, Tetyana
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Access to Care for Multiple Sclerosis in Times of Economic Crisis in Greece – the HOPE II Study [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Journal of Health Policy and Management, 2016
Background While there is currently no cure for multiple sclerosis (MS), treatment with biologic diseasemodifying drugs (bDMDs) can reduce the impact of the condition on the lives of patients. In Greece, the regulatory change in the distribution system
Kyriakos Souliotis   +5 more
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Fintech Innovation in Social Service Provision: A Bibliometric Review

open access: yesSocial Sciences, 2023
The employment of fintech as a product and service distribution mechanism in various sectors has been widely adopted for the provision of seamless services.
Alan Munodei, Athenia Bongani Sibindi
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The association between social support provision, psychological capital, subjective well-being and sense of indebtedness among undergraduates with low socioeconomic status

open access: yesBMC Psychology, 2023
Background Social support consists of receipt and provision in the interpersonal exchange process. Many studies have explored and verified the effect of received social support.
Zhongyi Xin
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Incentives for separation and incentives for public good provision [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
In this paper I examine the incentives of regions to unite, to separate and to provide public goods. Separation allows for greater influence over the nature of political decision making while unification allows regions to exploit economies of scale in ...
Staal, Klaas
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