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Impact of a physician-targeted letter on opioid prescribing.
2020
We study the effect of a physician-targeted nudge letter on opioid prescribing. In May 2017, the Social Insurance Institution of Finland sent a personal information letter to all physicians who had issued a prescription containing at least 100 tablets of paracetamol-codeine combination to a new patient. The aim of the letter was to draw the physicians’ attention to their prescribing practices and to decrease the size of the first codeine prescription. Using individual level register data and a difference-in-differences strategy, we estimate that the letter decreased the average number of tablets purchased by new patients by 12.5 percent and the probability of a first purchase being at least…
Managing Peripheral Artery Disease in Diabetic Patients: A Questionnaire Survey from Vascular Centers of the Mediterranean Federation for the Advanci…
2020
Background The Mediterranean Federation for the Advancing of Vascular Surgery (MeFAVS) was founded on October 1, 2018, to enhance cooperation among vascular professionals within Mediterranean countries. Due to its prominent social and economic impact on national health systems, diabetic arteriopathy has been selected as the very first topic to be investigated by the federation. Methods MeFAVS members were asked to reply to a questionnaire on the management of diabetic ischemic foot. Results were collected and analyzed statistically. The questionnaire consisted of 15 multiple choice answers regarding diabetic foot (DF) diagnosis and treatment. The questionnaire was submitted to 21 centers on…
Mid-career work patterns and physical and mental functioning at age 60–64 : evidence from the 1946 British birth cohort
2016
Background: Previous studies of the associations between unemployment and health have primarily focused on mental health and long-term associations have not often been explored. This study investigated if discontinuous employment in mid-career was related to self-reported physical and mental functioning at age 60–64 years. Methods: Data come from the Medical Research Council National Survey of Health and Development, a British cohort that has been followed-up since birth in 1946. A total of 2061 study members had data available on mid-career employment patterns and physical and mental functioning assessed using the Short Form 36 questionnaire at age 60–64. Employment patterns in mid-career …
Patterns of word reading skill, interest and self-concept of ability
2016
AbstractThe majority of previous research on academic skills, self-concept of ability and interest has deployed the variable-oriented approach and focused on self-concept, or ability, or interest only. This study examined the patterns and dynamics of pattern change in Finnish children’s word reading skill, self-concept of ability and interest from kindergarten to Grade 2. Six groups of children were identified by using the I-states as objects analysis (ISOA) procedure: (a) low skills, negative self-concept but high interest; (b) high skills but low interest; (c) average; (d) high skills, positive self-concept and high interest; (e) low skills, negative self-concept and low interest; and (f)…
Modelos de vida femeninos en el medio rural. Un caso de estudio en la Sierra del Segura (Albacete)
2019
La sobreemigració femenina i la masculinització són processos encara latents en gran part de la ruralitat espanyola. No obstant això, existeixen dones que mantenen o traslladen la seua residència a aquestes àrees. Així doncs, aquesta investigació tracta de caracteritzar les principals circumstàncies i patrons de vida que assumeixen i configuren les dones rurals. A partir d’un estudi de cas, la Sierra del Segura (Albacete), i mitjançant tècniques qualitatives, s’exposen quatre grans models de vida femenins. Per una part, dos que impliquen una trajectòria de localització ancorada en el món rural i el manteniment de rols de gènere, si bé el component generacional habilita divergències importan…
La formalisation fractale des tissus urbains
1998
The article concerns the fractal approach as it can bring new results making more understandable the morphology of agglomerate urban patterns. A new paradigm is developed, in order to improve the study of urban organizations according to optimization criteria. Specific fractal and multifractal methods are explicitated and applied to the knowledge of some big metropolitan areas and towns in Franche-Comté (France).
The relationship between electrophysiological and hemodynamic measures of neural activity varies across picture naming tasks: A multimodal magnetoenc…
2022
Funding Information: This work was financially supported by the Academy of Finland (Finnish Center of Excellence in Computational Inference Research COIN and grants #292334, #294238 to SK; #255349, #315553 to RS; #257576 to JK; #286405 funding for TM), the Sigrid Jusélius Foundation (grant to RS), the Finnish Cultural Foundation (grant to ML), the Swedish Cultural Foundation in Finland (grant to ML), the Maud Kuistila Memorial Foundation (grant to ML), and Aalto Brain Center. Publisher Copyright: Copyright © 2022 Mononen, Kujala, Liljeström, Leppäaho, Kaski and Salmelin. Different neuroimaging methods can yield different views of task-dependent neural engagement. Studies examining the relat…
“Natural wages dynamics in a Ricardian growth model”
2006
Ricardian growth models are generally built on the assumption of a constant natural wage. Such an assumption conceals the fact that classical economists were aware that in growing economies workers' normal pattern of consumption steadily rise both in terms of quantity and quality. In the first part of the chapter we gather some classical hints on the relationship between economic growth and natural wages in order to provide a rational reconstruction of the classical point of view on natural wage dynamics. In the second part of the chapter we propose a formal analysis of the dynamics of a Ricardian model with endogenous natural wage
Model społeczeństwa a założenia Specjalnej Strefy Demograficznej
2016
Założenia opolskiej Specjalnej Strefy Demograficznej odwołują się do strukturalno-systemowych teorii społeczeństwa. Stan katastrofy demograficznej wymaga, moim zdaniem, przeprowadzenia reprezentatywnych badań empirycznych wśród młodego pokolenia, opracowania socjologicznego studium i uzupełnienia teoretycznych założeń Specjalnej Strefy Demograficznej w regionie opolskim.