Der Beitrag untersucht im Ländervergleich zwischen Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz, inwiefern sich die Strukturen der großen Krankenhäuser in Richtung einer Ökonomisierung, verstanden als zunehmende Geltung von Wirtschaftlichkeitskriterien, verändern. Der mögliche Autonomieverlust...

This paper investigates the short-term effects of public smoking bans on individual smoking behavior. In 2007 and 2008, state-level smoking bans were gradually introduced in all of Germany's federal states. We exploit this variation to identify the effect that smoke-free policies had on...

Music technology is a term commonly used to refer to electronic form of the musical arts, particularly devices and computer software that enable the facilitation, playback, recording, composition, storage, and performance of various musical compositions. There has been a growing awareness of the...

This study examined the communication effects of smoking cessation by using message framing (positive messages/negative messages) and audience situation (smoker/nonsmoker and high/low self-efficacy). The study used 207 valid homogeneous subjects and a between-subject experiment method was...

In Deutschland sterben im Durchschnitt pro Tag drei Menschen, die vergeblich auf eine Organspende warten, so die Deutsche Stiftung Organtransplantation. In diesem Beitrag wird die Wirksamkeit eines Nudges mit der Einstellung des Defaults „Organe werden gespendet“ (Widerspruchslösung)...

We perform a cost-benefit analysis on the introduction of monetary incentives for living kidney donations by estimating the compensation that would make an individual indifferent between donating and not donating a kidney while alive using Chilean data. We find that monetary incentives of...

Programmatik und Infrastruktur einer zu erneuernden qualitativen Pflege stehen seit Längerem im Kreuzfeuer der Kritik. Die Bundesregierung versucht dieser Kritik kurzfristig mit der Weiterentwicklung des Pflegerechts durch eine Leistungsverbesserung im Pflegeverhältnis zu begegnen. Eine...

Recurrent health crises and outbreaks of infectious diseases of international concern have created a specific EU public health policy. Its role was further strengthened by the COVID-19 pandemic, which triggered the next stage in the integration process of the Member States: the European Health...

The last two years have been characterized by a considerable increase in the number of national and local regulations to contain and fight the spread of the COVID-19 contagion. The literature suggests that poor readability of regulations comes with a significant cost in terms of public...