Students� competencies are influenced by a host of factors, including the individual school�s effectiveness. Measuring this contribution is extremely difficult. One way of circumventing the problem is by focusing on changes in competencies over time, i.e. value-added measures. Using...

The paper addresses the issue of dynamic relationships between environment, health and growth. Its aim is to show that the dynamic of the three variables is very difficult to predict, and depends on the value of key parameters: nonetheless the paper tries to show that there is probably, at least...

A new approach to quality policies in health companies concerns the valuation of the mission of top management.The research has the goal to define the indispensable factors for top management to activate a quality system in hospital companies and afterwards to determine a pattern of social...

A new approach to quality policies in companies concerns the evaluation of the mission of top management. This topic has the goal to define the indispensable factors for top management to activate a new organisation in companies and afterwards to determine a pattern of social indicators...

La presenza di un’elevata concentrazione delle condizioni di malattia nelle aree disagiate è un tema molto dibattuto di salute pubblica. Da una parte si sostiene che tale concentrazione sia la manifestazione dell’effetto della povertà e del disagio individuale (effetto composizionale),...

This paper describes the main international trends in the demand for and supply and cost of hospital services in the last decades. In almost all countries, including Italy, there has been a substantial reduction in the total length of hospitalizations, a steady rise in the use of day-hospitals...

Italian abstract: Il paper affronta il tema del sostegno alla domiciliarità degli anziani fragili i cui bisogni non trovano adeguata risposta nell’offerta formale, di natura prestazionale e concentrata sulla non autosufficienza, e spesso nemmeno all’interno della famiglia, che ha una...