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Patient flows through Valhalla : A survival analysis in the context of short-term care institutions
2019
Master's thesis Business Administration BE501 - University of Agder 2019 Individuals experiencing functional decline may often require some form of assistance in order to reassume their activities of daily living. A common form of rehabilitation is a stay at a short-term institution, yet readmissions to such care facilities often occur. Home-based reablement has surfaced in Norway during the past ten years and aims to assist the user in reaching their own activity goals through a self-committed and intensive program, assisted by health care workers. The objective of this study isinquiring into the patient flows between home-nurse areas and short-term institutions in southern Norway over the…
Heterogeneity in general practitioners’ preferences for quality improvement programs: a choice experiment and policy simulation in France
2016
International audience; Despite increasing popularity, quality improvement programs (QIP) have had modest and variable impacts on enhancing the quality of physician practice. We investigate the heterogeneity of physicians’ preferences as a potential explanation of these mixed results in France, where the national voluntary QIP – the CAPI – has been cancelled due to its unpopularity. We rely on a discrete choice experiment to elicit heterogeneity in physicians’ preferences for the financial and non-financial components of QIP. Using mixed and latent class logit models, results show that the two models should be used in concert to shed light on different aspects of the heterogeneity in prefer…
Should Contact Bans Have Been Lifted More in Germany?
2020
Abstract Many countries consider the lifting of restrictions of social contacts (RSC). We quantify the effects of RSC for Germany. We initially employ a purely statistical approach to predicting prevalence of Covid-19 if RSC had been upheld after 20 April. We employ these findings and feed them into our theoretical model. We find that the peak of the number of sick individuals would have been reached already end of April. The number of sick individuals would have fallen below 1000 at the beginning of July. If restrictions had been lifted completely on April 20, the number of sick should have risen quickly again from around 27 April. A balance between economic and individual costs of RSC and…
Association Between Self-Assessed Health and Attitude Towards Own Health
2014
This paper explores association between health and attitude towards own health in two dimensions – taking care of own health and lifestyle. We apply two-dimensional stereotype logit model to estimate association between self-assessed health and attitude towards health, after accounting for socioeconomic factors. We find evidence of strong positive association between health status and (perceived) taking care of own health and lifestyle. Analysis of perception of the two concepts – "taking care of own health" and "healthy lifestyle" – provides insights into possible reasons of not very good indicators of health behaviour among Latvian population.
Multidimensional health modeling: Association between socioeconomic and psychosocial factors and health in Latvia
2009
This research aims at estimating association between socioeconomic and psychosocial factors on the one hand and health in Latvia on the other hand. While information on association between socioeconomic determinants of population health in Latvia is scarce, effect of psychosocial resources on individual health in this country hasn’t been estimated before. We find empirical support for the association between different psychosocial factors and physical health in Latvia. This paper proposes new approach for modelling self-assessed health. We find that the concept of health is too complicated to measure effects of health determinants using a one-dimensional econometric model. We apply two-dime…
La gouvernance hospitalière : quelques réflexions à partir de la gouvernance d'entreprise
2010
La transposition de la problématique de la gouvernance d’entreprise à la gouvernance hospitalière conduit à étudier les éventuels liens de causalité entre les systèmes de gouvernance visant à réguler les comportements des dirigeants de l’hôpital et la performance de ce type d’organisation. L’objectif de cet article est à la lumière de l’organisation des hôpitaux dans le contexte français associé à la récente réforme HPST (1) de préciser ce que peut être une gouvernance hospitalière dans cette perspective ; (2) d’analyser la question de la latitude managériale en fonction de la structuration des pouvoirs dans le cadre de l’hôpital ; (3) d’identifier les principales parties prenantes impliqué…
The Covid-19 containment effects of public health measures:A spatial difference-in-differences approach
2021
Abstract The paper studies the containment effects of public health measures to curb the spread of Covid‐19 during the first wave of the pandemic in spring 2020 in Germany. To identify the effects of six compound sets of public health measures, we employ a spatial difference‐in‐differences approach. We find that contact restrictions, mandatory wearing of face masks and closure of schools substantially contributed to flattening the infection curve. The significance of the impact of restaurant closure does not prove to be robust. No incremental effect is evidenced for closure of establishments and the shutdown of nonessential retail stores.
Who cares? Evidence on informal and formal home care use in Estonia
2019
Despite increasing attention to long-term care (LTC) and related challenges in the Estonian social policy agenda, the distributional fairness of LTC services in the country has received very limited attention. Using SHARE data, we address informal and formal home care services and identify the socio-economic factors that drive or hinder their use among the Estonian elderly. The relationship between informal and formal home care utilization is estimated applying the new approach to instrumental variable method proposed by Lewbel [2012. Using heteroscedasticity to identify and estimate mismeasured and endogenous regressor models. Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 30(1), 67–80]. We …
Infected persons by the fact of a public organism : is a fair compensation by the community realistic ? A graph-theory pproach
1999
The paper focuses on indirectly infected persons (persons infected by a person, infected by a person, etc., itself infected by a public organism, for AIDS, hepatitis C, etc.). It is assumed that fairness implies the national community to indemnify them. Graph theory is used to explain what is indirect infection. The concept of chains of infection, and their length is central. Re-infections are considered also because even individuals that are initially infected by another cause could become later indirectly infected by the public agent. The number of persons to be indemnified is larger than for direct infection, so the cost of compensation is higher, unless if compensation per capita is low…
Ruby paplašinājums ērtai tulkojumu pārvaldei
2017
Kvalifikācijas darbā izstrādātais Ruby paplašinājums Kakimasu (japāņu valodā rakstīt) ir paredzēts ātrai un ērtai projekta tulkojumu pārvaldei. Kakimasu ļauj tulkot projektu no pārlūka, neaiztiekot YAML failus, kuros pēc noklusējuma glabājas tulkojumi, līdz ar to, projektu var iztulkot bez īpašām priekšzināšanām, turklāt ātri, kas ietaupa tik dārgo laiku un līdzekļus. Paplašinājumu var lietot kā izstrādātāji, tā paši klienti. Paplašinājums ir izstrādāts Ruby programmēšanas valodā un tas ir saderīgs ar jebkuru Ruby on Rails 5 projektu. Paplašinājuma izstrādē tika izmantotas arī HTML, CSS, Javascript tehnoloģijas.