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Inequality in Healthcare Utilization in Italy: How Important Are Barriers to Access?
2022
With the ageing population, equitable access to medical care has proven to be paramount for the effective and efficient management of all diseases. Healthcare access can be hindered by cost barriers for drugs or exams, long waiting lists or difficult access to the place where the needed healthcare service is provided. The aim of this paper is to investigate whether the probability of facing one of these barriers varies among individuals with different socio-economic status and care needs, controlling for geographical variability. Methods. The sample for this study included 9629 interviews with Italian individuals, aged 15 and over, from the second wave (2015) of the European Health Intervie…
Access to Higher Education: An Instrument for Fair Societies?
2019
Access to higher education (HE) has a long history. To offer a view on the current debates and worldwide issues regarding access to HE, this editorial depicts how the control of educational access has historically been used as an instrument of governance at the interface of two processes: social stratification and the territorialisation of politics. Access to HE has remained embedded in these large structural processes even though HE has expanded from a highly elitist institution into mass education systems with equity of educational opportunities having become a desirable goal across societies. Analysing these processes helps understand the complex mechanisms producing inequalities in HE t…
Positive corporate communication : the role of positive equity storytelling in non-regulated investor relations
2016
Tutkielmassa perehdyttiin positiivisen yritysviestinnän ja sijoittajatarinankerronnan rooliin vapaaehtoisessa, säätelystä vapaassa sijoittajaviestinnässä ja pohdittiin, löytyykö sijoittajille kohdistetuista vapaaehtoisista esityksistä positiivisen vuorovaikutuksen piirteitä kuten ihmisistä, osaamisesta, kulttuurista, arvoista ja monimuotoisuudesta viestimistä. Tutkielma pyrki selvittämään, missä muodoissa ja missä määrin positiivisuutta valitussa materiaalissa ilmenee. Empiirisessä osiossa analysoitiin OMX Nordic 40 -indeksiin kuuluvien pohjoismaisten yritysten viimeisimpien pääomamarkkinapäivien ja vastaavien sijoittajatapahtumien power point -esityksiä. Hyödyntäen aineistolähtöistä sisäll…
Qualitative Evaluation of the STOEMP Network in Ghent: An Intersectoral Approach to Make Healthy and Sustainable Food Available to All
2020
The STOEMP network is, to our knowledge, one of the first initiatives to bring different sectors together in a municipality so as to increase accessibility to healthy and sustainable foods for all, with particular attention for the disadvantaged population. This qualitative study aimed to gain an in-depth insight into how the STOEMP network aims to reach its goal of making healthy, sustainable food available to everyone, through an intersectoral, collaborative process, exploring the facilitators and challenges of taking a systems-oriented approach to achieving this. Interviews were conducted among 15 stakeholders of the STOEMP network between March&ndash
Rachats d’actions annoncés versus rachats réalisés:une analyse du découplage sur le marché français - Announced share repurchase versus repurchase sh…
2011
(VF)Notre analyse originale porte sur la pertinence des explications des rachats d’actions en confrontant les motivations des rachats annoncés au faible taux de rachats effectifs mesuré sur le marché français. Nous mobilisons les principales explications théoriques des rachats d’actions et nous proposons une étude empirique de plusieurs centaines de programmes de rachats afin de justifier l’intention volontaire des dirigeants de ne pas engager des rachats importants en dépit de ceux annoncés provoquant ainsi un découplage. Nous montrons que certaines entreprises ont une probabilité plus élevée de provoquer ce découplage en rachetant plus faiblement leurs propres actions. Ce sont les entrepr…
The Capital’s Election Criteria Used in the Financial Management of a Company’s Financing Decision
2009
The optimization of the capital structures of a company after the cost criteria represents a profitable activity, provided that it is well conceived, organized and carried out. For this consideration, the capital’s structure and their medium cost is an important profit source for the company, so the profit comes from this source, and not from the exploitation activity or other financial sources or traditional exceptive. In conclusion, the cost of the capital has to be previewed; the company has to build an adequate strategy and tactical procedures to accomplish this challenge. Besides the capital’s cost, in this paper we present some other criteria that can interfere in the choice of the fi…
Medio ambiente y desarrollo: una revisión conceptual
2008
This paper provides a conceptual review of the term “sustainable development”, bearing in mind its current applicability to social matters and public decision-making. Taking the well-known definition of sustainable development coined by the Brundtland Commission over twenty years ago, we consider the consequences of adopting weak and strong sustainability criteria for continued development and the importance of conserving so-called critical natural capital. We also examine the relationship between sustainable development and equity. We then present a concept of development that integrates the three areas of economic, social and environmental sustainability. Finally, we discuss the main forc…
What is your couple type? Gender ideology, housework-sharing, and babies
2015
AbstractBACKGROUNDIt is increasingly acknowledged that not only gender equality but also gender ideology plays a role in explaining fertility in advanced societies. In a micro perspective, the potential mismatch between gender equality (i.e., the actual sharing taking place in a couple) and gender ideology (i.e., attitudes and beliefs regarding gender roles) may drive childbearing decisions.OBJECTIVEThis paper assesses the impact of consistency between gender equality in attitudes and equality in the division of household labour on the likelihood of having another child, for different parities.METHODSRelying on two-wave panel data of the Bulgarian, Czech, French, Hungarian, and Lithuanian G…
CLUSTER APPROACH AS ONE OF DETERMINANTS FOR INCREASING COMPETITIVENESS OF RIGA FREEPORT
2011
The cluster-based approach offers a new way of dividing and understanding an economy and competitiveness. The main objective of the present study was to reveal the influence of industrial clusters on Freeport’s of Riga business competitiveness and integrated development. The cluster environment stimulates competitiveness and competition inside the cluster and the industry. One of the reasons for the current problems of Latvia’s competitiveness is the low level of business entities’ co-operation and business integration in the national economy of Latvia and the Freeport of Riga in particular. Companies are isolated in their approaches to increasing their competitiveness and entering the glob…
Goodwill and Criteria for its Recognition in Financial Statements
2004
The article summarises a research on goodwill which is one of the most controversial assets. The research includes a comparison between the descriptions of the economic nature of goodwill and an analysis of various valuation methods and accounting policies. The article discusses the internationally recognised problem that there coexist several accepted methods of accounting for goodwill arising from the acquisition of an enterprise, as a result of which the accountancy data of different enterprises and countries are incomparable.