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Health behaviors and education in Turkey

Tansel, Aysıt; Karaoglan, Deniz - 2014

This is the first study which provides empirical analysis of the variation in health behaviors for adult men and women in Turkey which is a developing country. The health behaviors considered are smoking, drinking, fruit and vegetable consumption, exercise and body mass index (BMI). We find that...

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Self-Reported Health and Gender: The Role of Social Norms

Caroli, Eve; Weber-Baghdiguian, Lexane - 2016

We investigate the role of social norms in accounting for differences in self-reported health as reported by men and women. Using the European Working Conditions Survey (EWCS, 2010), we first replicate the standard result that women report worse health than men, whatever the health outcome we...

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Heraus- und Anforderungen an eine systematische Qualitätsmessung und -berichterstattung in der Langzeitpflege

Hasseler, Martina - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 83 (2014) 4, pp. 67-85

Bisherige Ergebnisse und Erkenntnisse zur Qualitätsmessung und -berichterstattung in der Langzeitpflege sind in Deutschland überwiegend auf politische Prozesse sowie Reformmaßnahmen und nicht unmittelbar auf Forschungserkenntnisse unabhängiger Fördermittel und Forschungsbemühungen...

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Different effects of social capital on health status among residents: evidence from modern Japan

Yamamura, Eiji - 2010

This paper aims to explore how social capital is related to self-rated health status in Japan and how this relationship depends on the extent to which a person is embedded into the community. This study used data from 3079 adult participants in Japan’s Social Policy and Social Consciousness...

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The "Red Herring" after 20 Years: Ageing and Health Care Expenditures

Breyer, Friedrich; Lorenz, Normann - 2019

20 years ago, Zweifel, Felder and Meier (1999) established the by now famous "red-herring" hypothesis, according to which population ageing does not lead to an increase in per capita health care expenditures (HCE) because the observed positive correlation between age and health care expenditures...

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Inter-country Distancing, Globalization and the Coronavirus Pandemic

Zimmermann, Klaus F.; Karabulut, Gokhan; Bilgin, Mehmet … - 2020

associated with this factor. The analysis investigates the impact globalization has on the speed of initial transmission to a …

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Artificial Intelligence against COVID-19: An Early Review

Naudé, Wim - 2020

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a potentially powerful tool in the fight against the COVID- 19 pandemic. Since the outbreak of the pandemic, there has been a scramble to use AI. This article provides an early, and necessarily selective review, discussing the contribution of AI to the fight...

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Aging and Health Care Expenditures: A Non-Parametric Approach

Lorenz, Normann; Ihle, Peter; Breyer, Friedrich - 2020

-parametric approach is particularly useful to answer the question whether age still has an impact on HCE once TTD is taken into account … grow considerably faster than HCE of survivors. We explore the impact of these findings on the simulation of future HCE and … find that population aging will in fact contribute to rising HCE in the coming decades. We also find that the impact of …

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Das kognitive Gefühl von Präsenz in medialen Tutorien oder Ist reale Präsenzlehre präsenter als virtuelle Präsenzlehre?

Oleimeulen, Kirsten - 2019

On the basis of an increasing demand for distance learning courses, combined with a steady educational demand for digitization in schools and colleges, it seems time to strive for a proof of quality combined with a quality improvement of medial tutorials. Almost without exception, previous...

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Involvement im Fernstudium: Methoden und Instrumente zur Verbesserung von Involvement als qualitätssteigernder Aspekt virtueller Tutorien

Oleimeulen, Kirsten - 2020

Virtual tutorials are the only interface to classroom teaching in distance learning. They correspond to lectures, seminars and exercises in direct study. Their designated position is committed to quality in order to keep distance learning competitive on the long run. High dropout rates already...

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