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...

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...

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...

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),...

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...

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 lavoro fornisce un quadro descrittivo dei recenti flussi di richiedenti asilo in Italia e nell’Unione Europea. Dopo aver esaminato le dinamiche degli ingressi irregolari e delle richieste di protezione internazionale, si analizzano le differenze a livello europeo...

This paper provide a review of housing policies implemented in the Municipality of Modena for those tenants living in unaffordable housing. In the first part of the paper we analyze demand and supply for each of these policies, our sources being microdata from the Municipality: we find that...