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Essay in health economics
Full text linkThis PhD thesis focuses on health economics, encompassing economic evaluation of healthcare treatments and
interventions, health data management, and implications of health policies, particularly within the public
sector. The study addresses macroeconomic and public accounting aspects, delving into the functioning of
healthcare systems and individual and social determinants of health-related topics.
A pivotal concern within health economics involves hospital performance regarding cost containment and
adherence to regulatory norms, especially amid significant reforms in payment systems and management
objectives. The introduction of financial incentives and performance objectives in the 1980s aimed to foster
efficient management and resource allocation. However, these mechanisms inadvertently introduced
challenges such as patient selection biases (creaming and dumping) and a potential reduction in service quality
due to moral hazard on the supply side.
In recent years, the focus on data management has intensified, with Health Data Management (HDM) playing
a crucial role in organizing and integrating digital health data. It includes electronic medical records, health
and administrative data processed by governments, and a growing body of literature addressing healthcare
disparities among ethnic and racial groups and variations based on sex and age.
Another emerging area of interest in health economics is the study of informal caregiving, where individuals,
often family or friends, provide care without economic compensation. This caregiving is associated with both
physical and mental health effects and is distributed unevenly in society, influenced by gender and
socioeconomic factors. The causal impact of caregiving remains challenging to estimate, adding to the growing
curiosity among health economists.
In the face of these facts, we have chosen to focus our research activities on issues of economic evaluation of
health systems in terms of, e.g. hospital performance, the management of health and administrative data
provided by the public administration, through the use of statistical software, and the study of a public policy
aimed at social protection for persons in need of long-term care, to observe and measure the impact on the
quality of life of caregivers and family well-being.
This thesis addresses these critical issues through three essays. The first essay focuses on the economic
evaluation methodologies of healthcare treatments, providing a comprehensive review of techniques such as
Budget Impact Analysis (BIA). The aim is to elucidate the advantages and disadvantages of these
methodologies, offer practical recommendations for healthcare professionals, and outline avenues for future
research.
The second essay demonstrates the application of data management skills using Stata software, widely
employed in academic research and by private companies for data analysis. It summarizes research conducted
during a visiting PhD at the Centre for Research in Health and Economics of the University Pompeu Fabra
Barcelona, specifically managing administrative data from the "Muestra Continua de Vidas Laborales"
provided by the Spanish government's Seguridad Social from 2005 to 2016.
The third essay explores the impact of the Ley de Dependencia, a public policy introduced in 2007 and repealed
in 2012, on the quality of life of caregivers, gender inequality, the sexual division of the labour market, and
family well-being. This research contributes valuable insights into the consequences of social protection
policies for individuals needing long-term care.
In conclusion, this thesis contributes significantly to the theoretical and empirical aspects of health economics
by addressing critical issues related to hospital performance, data management, and the impact of public
policies on caregivers and family well-being. The multidimensional approach employed in these essays
provides a comprehensive understanding of the complex dynamics within the healthcare sector, offering
practical implications for policymakers and researchers alike
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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