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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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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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Conferences, tablecloths and cupboards: How to understand the situatedness of quality improvements in long-term care

Stoopendaal, Annemiek; Bal, Roland - In: Social Science & Medicine 78 (2013) C, pp. 78-85

Long term care needs improvement, but still little is known how quality improvement works in practice. A better, in-depth, understanding of the content and complexities of quality improvement is necessary because of the still limited theoretical and empirical grounds underlying its approach....

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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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Neighbourhood social capital as a moderator between individual cognitions and sports behaviour among Dutch adolescents

Prins, R.G.; Beenackers, M.A.; Boog, M.C.; Van Lenthe, F.J. - In: Social Science & Medicine 105 (2014) C, pp. 9-15

This study aimed to explore whether individual cognitions and neighbourhood social capital strengthen each other in their relation with engaging in sports at least three times per week. Cross-sectional analyses on data from the last wave of the YouRAction trial (2009–2010, Rotterdam, the...

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Paying more for faster care? Individuals' attitude toward price-based priority access in health care

Benning, Tim M.; Dellaert, Benedict G.C. - In: Social Science & Medicine 84 (2013) C, pp. 119-128

Increased competition in the health care sector has led hospitals and other health care institutions to experiment with new access allocation policies that move away from traditional expert based allocation of care to price-based priority access (i.e., the option to pay more for faster care). To...

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The discovery of deliberation. From ambiguity to appreciation through the learning process of doing Moral Case Deliberation in Dutch elderly care

van der Dam, Sandra; Schols, Jos M.G.A.; Kardol, Tinie J.M. - In: Social Science & Medicine 83 (2013) C, pp. 125-132

In the field of bioethics a trend can be noticed toward deliberative and collective forms of moral reflection among practitioners. Moral Case Deliberation (MCD) is an example of this development and currently introduced in an increasing number of health care organizations in the Netherlands,...

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Putting your money where your mouth is: Parents' valuation of good oral health of their children

Vermaire, J.H.; van Exel, N.J.A.; van Loveren, C.; … - In: Social Science & Medicine 75 (2012) 12, pp. 2200-2206

The aim of this study was to investigate the parental willingness to invest in good oral health for their child in terms of money and time and to relate this to oral health related knowledge and behavioral aspects. 290 parents of 6-year-old children, participating in a RCT on caries preventive...

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A new prevention paradox: The trade-off between reducing incentives for risk selection and increasing the incentives for prevention for health insurers

Kanters, Tim A.; Brouwer, Werner B.F.; Vliet, René … - In: Social Science & Medicine 76 (2013) C, pp. 150-158

The Dutch risk equalization scheme has been improved over the years by including health related risk adjusters. The purpose of the Dutch risk equalization scheme is to prevent risk selection and to correct for predictable losses and gains for insurers. The objective of this paper is to explore...

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