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Community resilience, quality childcare, and preschoolers’ mental health: A three-city comparison

Maggi, Stefania; Roberts, William; MacLennan, David; … - In: Social Science & Medicine 73 (2011) 7, pp. 1080-1087

childcare programs contribute to trends at the population-level is yet to be established. In this study, we examine community … than expected child outcomes in the resilient community were due to better quality childcare in this community. To test … of the three study communities. As expected, teachers (but not parents) from the resilient community reported fewer …

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The world in a box? Food security, edible insects, and “One World, One Health” collaboration

Yates-Doerr, Emily - In: Social Science & Medicine 129 (2015) C, pp. 106-112

Scientists in the Netherlands are cultivating edible insects to address concerns of international food security. Committed to the One World, One Health (OWOH) movement, their research aims to create a safe and effective global solution to the conjoined problems of climate change and an...

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Does loneliness mediate the relation between social support and cognitive functioning in later life?

Ellwardt, Lea; Aartsen, Marja; Deeg, Dorly; Steverink, Nardi - In: Social Science & Medicine 98 (2013) C, pp. 116-124

Research in gerontology has demonstrated mixed effects of social support on cognitive decline and dementia: Social support has been shown to be protective in some studies, but not in others. Moreover, little is known about the underlying mechanisms between social support and cognitive...

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A person-centred segmentation study in elderly care: Towards efficient demand-driven care

Eissens van der Laan, M.R.; van Offenbeek, M.A.G.; … - In: Social Science & Medicine 113 (2014) C, pp. 68-76

Providing patients with more person-centred care without increasing costs is a key challenge in healthcare. A relevant but often ignored hindrance to delivering person-centred care is that the current segmentation of the population and the associated organization of healthcare supply are based...

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Negotiating jurisdiction in the workplace: A multiple-case study of nurse prescribing in hospital settings

Kroezen, M.; Mistiaen, P.; van Dijk, L.; Groenewegen, P.P. - In: Social Science & Medicine 117 (2014) C, pp. 107-115

This paper reports on a multiple-case study of prescribing by nurse specialists in Dutch hospital settings. Most analyses of interprofessional negotiations over professional boundaries take a macro sociological approach and ignore workplace jurisdictions. Yet boundary blurring takes place and...

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Productivity cost calculations in health economic evaluations: Correcting for compensation mechanisms and multiplier effects

Krol, Marieke; Brouwer, Werner B.F.; Severens, Johan L.; … - In: Social Science & Medicine 75 (2012) 11, pp. 1981-1988

Productivity costs related to paid work are commonly calculated in economic evaluations of health technologies by multiplying the relevant number of work days lost with a wage rate estimate. It has been argued that actual productivity costs may either be lower or higher than current estimates...

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Ethical review: Standardizing procedures and local shaping of ethical review practices

Jaspers, Patricia; Houtepen, Rob; Horstman, Klasien - In: Social Science & Medicine 98 (2013) C, pp. 311-318

Since ethical review practice has developed in relation to specific regulatory regimes and local contexts, it cannot be understood without paying attention to the institutional context of ethical review practices. We believe the tendency towards strong central governance and standardization in...

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Social deprivation and adverse perinatal outcomes among Western and non-Western pregnant women in a Dutch urban population

Poeran, Jashvant; Maas, Arno F.G.; Birnie, Erwin; … - In: Social Science & Medicine 83 (2013) C, pp. 42-49

’ effects through knowledge systems or intrinsic resilience. Implications concern both general and targeted policies. …

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Time-bound opportunity costs of informal care: Consequences for access to professional care, caregiver support, and labour supply estimates

Hassink, Wolter H.J.; Van den Berg, Bernard - In: Social Science & Medicine 73 (2011) 10, pp. 1508-1516

The opportunity costs associated with the provision of informal care are usually estimated based on the reduced potential of the caregiver to partake in paid work (both in terms of whether they are able to undertake paid work, and if so the hours of work undertaken). In addition to the hours of...

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Understanding the adoption dynamics of medical innovations: Affordances of the da Vinci robot in the Netherlands

Abrishami, Payam; Boer, Albert; Horstman, Klasien - In: Social Science & Medicine 117 (2014) C, pp. 125-133

This study explored the rather rapid adoption of a new surgical device — the da Vinci robot — in the Netherlands despite the high costs and its controversial clinical benefits. We used the concept ‘affordances’ as a conceptual-analytic tool to refer to the perceived promises, symbolic...

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