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Our research is conducted to identify certain grouping of 24 European countries based on their death probabilities. Gathering 2014 data from Human Mortality Database our research objective was twofold. First, we wanted to find homogeneous groups of countries where mortality is similar and for a...
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The COVID-19 pandemic has left a mark on nearly all events since the start of the year 2020. There are many studies that examine the medical, economic, and social effects of the pandemic; however, only a few are concerned with how the reactions of society affect the spread of the virus. The goal...
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Social sustainability is a development alternative that focuses on preserving and sustaining opportunities and resources for future generations rather than exploiting them. In addition to resource management, it is important to emphasize the focus on human well-being, in which the provision of a...
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This article studies the determinants of pharmaceutical innovation diffusion among specialists. To this end, it investigates the influences of six categories of factors—social embeddedness, socio-demography, scientific orientation, prescribing patterns, practice characteristics, and patient...
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Improved patient care coordination is critical for achieving better health outcome measures at reduced cost. Better integration of primary and secondary care in chronic illness care and utilizing the advantages of better collaboration between general practitioners and specialists may support...
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This paper analyzes the expansion and crisis of the foreign-currency (FX) loan market and responding mortgage-rescue programs in Hungary. We assess changes in the housing regime and illustrate the process through analyzing interactions between individual and institutional (state, financial...
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At first glance, the past few decades of the life insurance market in Hungary (and probably in the majority of the … European, or at least Central-Eastern European countries) give the impression that annuity insurance is a marginal product that … not the past, but the possible future. It is highly probable that within a decade annuity insurance can move from being a …
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The broadly used pay-as-you-go (PAYG) pension system is intrinsically wrong. The essenceof the problem is that the PAYG system distributes the yield of raising children, i.e., of human capitalinvestment (which is essentially the pension contribution), in such a way that it disregards the...
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