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Journal articles on the topic "Insurance studies"
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Ogawa, Hiroaki. "Insurance Liberalization and the Studies of Insurance." Hokengakuzasshi (JOURNAL of INSURANCE SCIENCE) 2010, no. 611 (2010): 611_157–611_176. http://dx.doi.org/10.5609/jsis.2010.611_157.
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Alam, Azhar, Ririn Tri Ratnasari, Fikri ‘Ainul Qolbi, and Fauzul Hanif Noor Athief. "Efficiency studies of the sharia insurance industry: A systematic literature review." Insurance Markets and Companies 13, no. 1 (December 27, 2022): 90–101. http://dx.doi.org/10.21511/ins.13(1).2022.08.
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The sharia insurance industry has experienced significant development from year to year. A sharia insurance company’s efficiency is crucial because it reflects its capacity to generate outputs from resources. This study aims to enhance comprehension of the efficiency of sharia insurance currently studied by doing a comprehensive literature study. This study selected 429 published articles about Islamic insurance indexed by Scopus between 2010 and 2022. 32 final articles that met the criteria that discussed efficiency as the primary study included in the qualitative synthesis analysis were selected. As a result, this study succeeded in revealing the development of sharia insurance efficiency studies based on the number of publications, authors, countries, subject areas, sources of publications, and cited articles. The study found four main methods researchers used to measure the efficiency of Sharia insurance. This study also revealed several studies comparing the efficiency level between conventional and sharia insurance. Furthermore, the study’s results were mapped based on the significance of the influence of variables on the efficiency of Sharia insurance. This study offers a new opportunity for further development in methods and variables of the efficiency of sharia insurance.
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Kawata, Yukichika, and Syed Ahmed Salman. "Muslims and Non-Muslims’ Satisfaction of the Islamic Insurance in Malaysia: Application of the Extended Customer Satisfaction Analysis." Turkish Journal of Islamic Economics 9, no. 1 (February 15, 2022): 119–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.26414/a189.
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Islamic insurance has a more value-added substance than conventional insurance, and it is the ultimate solution for anyone seeking financial protection for their potential misfortune. However, the penetration ratio has been low even in Muslim majority countries, including Malaysia. While some existing studies examined the factors that contribute to improving the penetration rate, almost no studies examined satisfaction as the primary target. This study conducted a questionnaire for both Muslims and non-Muslims in Malaysia to investigate the factors that determine the satisfaction of the conventional and Islamic insurances. The Snowball sampling method was used, and 396 responses were obtained from Muslim and non-Muslim insurance policyholders in Selangor and Kuala Lumpur. The extended version of the Customer Satisfaction (CS) analysis was developed and applied to the Malaysian insurance policyholders’ data. There are three main results in this study. First, the factors that determine both Muslims’ and non-Muslims’ satisfaction with insurance were different. Second, while non-Muslims in Malaysia were satisfied with both the conventional and Islamic insurances, Muslims were more confident with the Islamic insurance than conventional ones. Furthermore, the current Islamic insurance would be accepted with higher satisfaction by non-Muslims than Muslims. Third, the extended CS analysis successfully detected factors that determined satisfaction for both the conventional and Islamic insurances, suggesting the extended CS analysis was effective.
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Wang, H. Holly, Jesse B. Tack, and Keith H. Coble. "Frontier studies in agricultural insurance." Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance - Issues and Practice 45, no. 1 (December 6, 2019): 1–4. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/s41288-019-00156-4.
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Korstanje, Maximiliano Emanuel, and Babu P. George. "What does insurance purchase behaviour say about risks?" International Journal of Disaster Resilience in the Built Environment 6, no. 3 (September 14, 2015): 289–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijdrbe-09-2012-0030.
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Purpose – This paper aims to explore the world of insurances as rites of adaptancy and resiliency before risk and disasters. The research on risks, both perceived and real, has become a frequent theme of academic research in the recent past. Design/methodology/approach – The information given by the superintendencia de Seguros de Buenos Aires involves 100 per cent of the insurances companies of Argentina. The reading of insurance demands corresponds with a new method in the studies of risks. Findings – Using advanced probability theory and quantitative techniques, risk management researchers have been able to construct sophisticated mathematical-statistical models of risk. Research limitations/implications – However, the relation between anticipated risks and insurance purchase behaviour has not received sufficient attention. In the present study, starting from the premise that societies may be studied by examining their fears, the authors posit that these fears are represented in the insurance premiums people buy for being protected. Originality/value – Insurance purchase behaviour at any particular point in time is a measure of what a society considers to be risky at that time and is a key source of information for tourism managers.
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Mirjalil, Iskandarov Abdurasul. "AGRICULTURAL RISK INSURANCE." European International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research and Management Studies 02, no. 09 (September 1, 2022): 56–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.55640/eijmrms-02-09-12.
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Agriculture is a sector facing many risks. Agricultural risks have become the object of many scientific studies as a result of their direct impact on the food security of the state and thereby the standard of living of the population. Agricultural risks have their own characteristics. Also, the classification of agricultural risks is specific to industry risks. The article considers two main principles of risk classification and proposes a classification model based on the principle of grouping.
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BILETSKA, L. M. "LEGAL SECURITY OF INSURANCE." Law and Society, no. 5 (2022): 73–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.32842/2078-3736/2022.5.11.
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Ramoutar, Richard S. "The Effects of Insurances, Pensions and Mutual Funds on Economic Growth." Journal of Economics and Public Finance 6, no. 1 (January 6, 2020): p17. http://dx.doi.org/10.22158/jepf.v6n1p17.
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Earlier studies on the impact of the insurance sectors activities on economic growth have largely failed. To examine the financial development market interaction of pensions and mutual funds linkages, through which insurance assets affects economic growth. This study re-examines the impact of life insurance premium volume, non-life insurance premium volume, insurance company assets, pension fund assets and mutual fund assets on economic growth. Using panel data of 33 countries over the period 2000-2016. The study applied the Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) model in panel setting using the PMG (Pooled Mean Group) and MG (Mean Group) estimators in this analysis. The study findings indicate that cointegration exists among all series and that insurances and mutual funds stimulate economic growth in both the short and long run.
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Kislingerová, Sofia, and Jindřich Špička. "Factors Influencing the Take-Up of Agricultural Insurance and the Entry into the Mutual Fund: A Case Study of the Czech Republic." Journal of Risk and Financial Management 15, no. 8 (August 16, 2022): 366. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jrfm15080366.
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The objective of the study was to identify the main factors influencing farmers’ willingness to take up agricultural insurance and participate in a mutual fund for non-insurable risks in the Czech Republic. Responses from 214 representative farms were processed using descriptive statistics, paired t-tests, binary logistic regression, and contingency analysis. The regression model showed the influences of agricultural area, distrust in insurance companies, the probability of losing more than 20% of production, the price of insurance premiums, and having a developed formal strategy on the likelihood of taking up agricultural insurance. Unlike previous empirical studies, this study did not attempt to look at agricultural insurance as an isolated risk management tool but rather to show the interrelationship between farmers’ decisions to join a mutual fund and their choice of agricultural insurance. Farmers expect most agricultural production risks to become significantly more important. With the ongoing economic crisis in the EU, there is growing pressure to reduce ad hoc public spending on coverage of non-insurable risks and to seek alternative solutions. The study also shows the need for a holistic approach to the design of risk management support systems in EU countries.
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Barszowski, Sebastian. "The comparison of selected legal aspects of insurance products on the Polish and British markets." Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Iuridica 77 (December 30, 2016): 91–104. http://dx.doi.org/10.18778/0208-6069.77.07.
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Author of this thesis has undertaken the research about Polish and English legal system and regulations that are essential for insurance market. This topic is not very popular in literature, because it is hard to find the comparison of Polish and English regulations that establish the conditions on which third party liability vehicle insurance contracts are concluded. That issue is very important to determine the level of development of the Polish insurance market. Before 1989 insurance market in Poland was monopolized by two companies. So it could be said that it is rather young, and may be less developed than English. The aim of that thesis has been achieved. The studies show that there are several significant differences in Polish and English legal system, but regulations do not follow changes of the insurance market in both countries. At the beginning of the thesis the author presented history of risk management and insurances. Next moved to analysis of legal regulations that are essential for compulsory vehicle insurance in Poland and England.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Insurance studies"
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Mennel, Tim. "Studies on optimal unemployment insurance /." Berlin : Dissertation.de, 2004. http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=012916906&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA.
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Toivanen, Otto Iisakki. "Industrial economics studies in insurance markets." Thesis, University of Warwick, 1994. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/106901/.
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This thesis consists of three essays each studying insurance markets from a different perspective. The first studies competition in the domestic Finnish non-life insurance market using a persistence of profits model, where it is assumed that firms use competitors' past profits as signals of attractiveness of given submarkets. The firms were divided into two strategic groups. The existence of these groups, the effects of two mergers, and the level of competition were tested for. It emerged that the groups compete hard against each other, that fringe firms compete more with the leader group than with each other, that leaders' either follow some kind of tacit collusion strategy or compete very aggressively against each other, and that the mergers lead to a tightening of competition. The second essay is theoretical. The question asked is: does it pay for an insurance firm to acquire information of its customers' type and level of effort. Adverse selection and moral hazard analyses are combined, using geometric tools. Welfare analysis is central in this essay. Decision rules are derived for a monopoly to become vertically integrated. It is shown that in oligopoly it is possible to have an equilibrium where firms use asymmetric vertical strategies. Welfare effects of vertical integration prove to be ambiguous. The model has several other applications, eg. job market, organization of regulatory institutions. In the third essay it is argued that oligopolistic firms do not necessarily minimize costs when maximizing profits, and that this affects cost function specification and estimation. A cost function is constrained so that it can be estimated even though the number of products is large. The proposed specification gives a better fit them traditional specifications, and the quantitative and qualitative results are very different. The costs of branch proliferation are calculated, and the lowest mean for five biggest firms is 37% of total operating costs.
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Msheliza, Samuel Kaku. "Strategic planning in Nigerian insurance companies." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 1991. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.281062.
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Yang, Shui-lam. "A comparison of different health insurance systems and their feasibility for Hong Kong /." [Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong], 1992. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B13417770.
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Laun, Lisa. "Studies on Social Insurance, Income Taxation and Labor Supply." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Nationalekonomiska institutionen, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-80972.
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This thesis consists of five papers, summarized as follows. "Disability Insurance, Population Health, and Employment in Sweden" This paper describes the development of population health and disability insurance utilization for older workers in Sweden and analyzes the relation between the two. We also study the effects of changes in eligibility criteria for older workers. "Does Privatization of Vocational Rehabilitation Improve Labor Market Opportunities? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Sweden" This paper analyzes if privatization of vocational rehabilitation improves labor market opportunities for long-term sick, using a field experiment. We find no differences in employment rates following rehabilitation between individuals who received rehabilitation by private and public providers. "Screening Stringency in the Disability Insurance Program" This paper proposes a strategy for assessing how the inflow to the disability insurance program has been governed over time. We analyze the ex-ante health of new beneficiaries by using ex-post mortality. We find large variation in the relative health of new beneficiaries compared to non-beneficiaries in Sweden over time. "The Effect of Age-Targeted Tax Credits on Retirement Behavior" This paper analyzes the effect of two tax credits for workers above age 65 implemented in Sweden in 2007: an earned income tax credit and a payroll tax credit. I find that the age-targeted tax credits increased employment in the year following the 65th birthday, but the increase was not large enough to offset the implied decrease in tax revenues. "Wage Dynamics and Firm-Level Shocks" This paper proposes a framework for introducing the firm into empirical models of the dynamic income process. The model allows for studying the extent to which firm-level productivity shocks are transmitted to wages. Selection into employment and between jobs is explicitly modeled. We also present a strategy for estimation and identification of the model
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Sheth, Alpen Suresh. "Cultivating risk : weather insurance, technology and financialization in India." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/113802.
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Thesis: Ph. D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, 2017.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
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Climate change, technological innovation, and financialization are three of the most transformative processes shaping spatial planning and policymaking. Yet, each of these macro-structural processes and their consequences are experienced in the short-term and at geographically-specific scales. In the context of planning, financialization needs to be better understood to evaluate its actual processes and consequences through in-depth analyses of specific cases. Since 2007, India's weather insurance programs have become the largest in the world offering farmers access to new financial instruments and automated technologies to manage the increasing risks of agricultural cultivation. Insurance has come to be seen as a systematic response to the increasing impacts of drought and flooding since the green revolution and an agrarian crisis that has witnessed over 300,000 farmers commit suicide between 1995-2015. In this dissertation, I ask how and why insurance, which never played a significant role several decades ago, has come to be a central planning strategy for agricultural policymakers, outpacing all other government expenditure in the form of premium subsidies. I study the development of weather insurance programs in India and examine implementation across four major agricultural states-Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, West Bengal, and Punjab-to show how risk transfer in the agricultural sector has been increasingly financialized, with a growing dependence on new derivative instruments and the rising penetration of international reinsurance capital. The overarching research questions motivating my dissertation include: how does the introduction of new insurance policies, financial instruments, and weather technologies impact the agrarian landscape? how do these insurance programs define and measure risk? what are the spatial dimensions of insurance, its variation and its coverage? what is the importance of these developments in terms of how agricultural risk gets financialized for long-term planning as well as political contestation? and what it means to plan for weather risk and climate change in a context of the rapid churning of technologies and the financialization of risk? In my research methodology, I employ granular analysis of actors, agents, and actions, while paying attention to structural positions, systemic rationalities, and recurrent patterns. I conducted interviews with over 40 insurance professionals, underwriters and government experts as well as with 60 farmers and local officials in four states - West Bengal, Maharashtra, Punjab and Andhra Pradesh. I used archival and document analyses as well as spatial analysis of insurance business data to understand and explain spatial variation in policy implementation and outcomes. Amidst the numerous scholarly debates about the role of finance and meaning of financialization, the spatial dimensions of risk and financialization are not well understood. Through my research, I explain financialization of weather risk through an analysis of underwriting methodologies for actuarial models, financial instruments, and automated weather technologies. I show how complexities and shifts in seasonal geographies and temporalities further complicate the extent to which harm, loss, risk can be correlated with financial precision and pricing. I argue that the speed of convergence towards automated and index-based systems has been followed by the disempowerment of farmers who have trouble disputing the terms and eligibility of coverage especially in the case of index insurance contracts, where disputes related to measurement errors and manipulation have had a significant negative effect on adoption, with many states and insurers reducing their offering of such policies. I further argue that the rise of the financialization of risk in the agricultural sector in particular is concurrent with the ascent of a global fast policy environment since the 1970s that facilitates iterative and experimental development of actuarial systems along transnational policy circuits. I contribute archival and empirical findings to show that Indian agricultural policy has witnessed a shift in focus away from the distribution of land, infrastructure, and productivity that were important in post-independence India and the Green Revolution, towards new forms of "riskholding" in the post-Green Revolution period, in which the government focuses on the ways in which the financial risks of agricultural producers are managed and transferred. In my comparative examination of the four states, I show that while insurance mitigates some forms of inequality through subsidies, structural inequalities as a function of inherited landholding disparities and landlessness are reinforced. My overall contention is that agricultural planning and policymaking, specifically through insurance, shifts resources away from longer-term considerations of addressing inequalities of assets such as land and capital, towards the problems of "riskholding," which constitutes a new dimension of differentiation that, in effect, magnifies the salience of short-term financial risk and risk hedging strategies instead of agricultural investment and infrastructure development. Finally, I find that financial risk in its various forms is becoming politicized in ways that are not accounted for in the current literature. I use my case studies to contribute to the literature on the financialization of agriculture (via an intervention in the ongoing debate on the "agrarian question") with a focus on the ways in which insurance subsidies, electoral politics and debt-based mobilization are a manifestation of a more broad-based politics of financialization. The politicization of financial risk ultimately upends the actuarial approach through state-specific variations in implementation through insurance subsidies and loan waivers as electoral strategies. These newly emergent systems are hierarchical and unevenly empower risk capital and new forms of actuarial automation, while risk capital markets and technologies are reshaping the context of planning and the ways weather indicators and indexes are defined and calculated. Furthermore, the uncertainty and severity of climate variability through unseasonal rainfall, drought, flooding, and disease present complex challenges for the very viability of agricultural production that are not adequately addressed through the insurance program, but may in fact, temporarily mask these processes through continued and pervasive ecological extraction and indebtedness. Ultimately, insurance is an incomplete mathematical (actuarial) technology for planning because it assumes fixed aggregate risks and non-correlation of risks. More than the mathematical possibilities and constraints of insurance, new models may show the potential for anti-neoliberal forms of decentralization in insurance and financialization through blockchain and other distributed technology for mutual, peer-to-peer risk management.
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Eaglestone, Frank Nelson. "An improved method of requesting insurance under UK construction contracts." Thesis, City University London, 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.240686.
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Cao, Liou. "The feasibility and functioning of public mortgage insurance models : an international comparison." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/34167.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2005.Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-194).
Public mortgage insurance (MI) is one type of supply-side government intervention in housing finance. It is an important component of the modem housing finance market, employed to expand homeownership and provide credit enhancement to mortgage loans. This research explores the feasibility and functioning of public MI, by conducting an international comparison of three representative public MI programs: the U.S. Federal Housing Administration; the Dutch Homeownership Guarantee Fund; and the Mexican Federal Mortgage Corporation. The main purpose is to build an integrated framework for policymakers when considering a public MI scheme, from institutional, financial, and operational perspectives. Research methodologies used include case studies, interviews, Monte Carlo simulation models, and regression analyses. The analytical framework of this research comprises three research questions: a) What are the primary economic problems in housing and housing finance markets that cause market inefficiency and hence call for government intervention in the form of public MI? b) What are the implied liabilities imposed on the backing government of sponsoring a public MI enterprise? and c) What are the potential economic problems that can result from the creation of a public MI system?
(cont.) Answers to these questions indicate that public MI can be an effective policy tool to address particular housing market inefficiencies. However, a good fit between public MI and a nation's housing and housing finance markets entails many factors, including economic, financial, legal, political, institutional, and even cultural. Public MI should be designed and priced properly to maintain its financial soundness over the long term, without imposing "hidden" liabilities on the backing government. Certain institutional arrangements and operational strategies are necessary to ensure public MI's relative independence and to control market distortions stemming from its presence. This research contributes to the knowledge base for any country considering a public MI scheme to boost its housing market development. It is intended to offer much needed insight into the economic rationale, financial viability, institutional and legal infrastructure, and operational strategies of government-sponsored MI programs, and help policymakers make informed decisions based on a holistic socio-economic view of the public MI.
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McLeod, Geordie. "Injury surveillance in community cricket and the exploration of insurance claims systems." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2020. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/2390.
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The aims of this industry funded PhD thesis were 1) To understand the injury causes, trends and burden in community cricket and 2) To examine the Cricket Australia National Club Risk Protection Program (NCRPP) insurance scheme for suitability as an injury surveillance tool for community cricket.
This thesis sought to identify and understand the injury profile of community cricketers through existing literature and injury datasets, being, Victorian Injury Surveillance Unit (VISU) hospital data, Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC) and NCRPP insurance claims data. This thesis also undertook a novel assessment of data validity and completeness from various sources, against industry standards of the Australian Sports Injury Data Dictionary (ASIDD) and cricket injury consensus statements (consensus).
Existing literature using insurance claims data to report sports injury indicated high levels of validity and completeness were possible. Review across all sources of published, community- level, cricket-related injury data revealed acute medically-treated injuries were most commonly fractures, dislocations, sprains and strains. The most common body regions requiring hospital attendance were the wrist/hand and head. The majority of hospital-treated injuries were due to being struck by the ball. The majority of prospectively collected injury data involved junior and/or adolescent players and most often involved bowling cohorts, although fielding was the most commonly reported activity of injury onset. The majority of studies had an unclear likelihood of bias. Reporting completeness was moderate when compared to the ASIDD core items and consensus, with injury mechanism an area requiring improvement.
The ACC provided data, on all cricket-related injury claims, showed high validity with the core items of the ASIDD and the cricket injury consensus statements. The ACC data showed soft tissue injuries were the most common injury nature with bowling the most common activity at injury onset. Lower back and shoulder sprains/strains were the most commonly injured body regions. Four-percent of claims involved lost work time. The NCRPP, collecting specifically organised cricket-related injury not covered by a universal healthcare system, showed fractures to the hands/fingers/thumb and knee sprains were the most common injuries. Fielding was the most common activity at injury onset. Twenty-five percent of claims received loss of income (LOI) payments with knee injuries representing the highest injury burden (weeks LOI/year).
The NCRPP system showed a high level of validity in injury data collection measured against the ASIDD and consensus. The NCRPP data showed a high level of completeness compared to the core items of the ASIDD and a moderate level in comparison with the consensus. The NCRPP system was judged to be useful as a potential injury surveillance system against the Centre for Disease Control (CDC) guidelines. Recommendations for improvements to the system include: 1) Addition of medical diagnosis/history; 2) Inclusion of injury side; 3) Inclusion of new/recurrent injury; 4) Allowance for multiple injuries being recorded separately; 5) Rationalisation of the injury nature terms (e.g. tear/rupture); 6) Reintroduction of injury mechanisms; 7) Addition of protective equipment usage; 8) Introduction of fielding positions; 9) Adopting required input fields in online forms to better capture injury data.
Additional research is required to help validate the representativeness of the NCRPP injury data. Future research into community-level cricket injury would also be better served with a community-level injury surveillance consensus statement.
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Harby, Galal Abd El-Haleem. "A non-metric multidimensional scaling analysis of customers' attitudes to life insurance : an empirical investigation of insured vs. non-insured attitudes towards life insurance purchasing decision variables in Egypt." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 1986. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/14762/.
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This study is an investigation of the variables which determine life insurance purchasing decisions in Egypt. More precisely, the interest is focused on the customers' attitudes towards purchasing life insurance, as well as on demographic/socioeconomic factors that are assumed to influence the decision to purchase. It is hypothesized that: A) Attitudes towards life insurance purchasing decision variables are similar (i.e., there is no difference) for both insured and non-insured typologies; B) the importance attached to saving through life insurance is similar to that attached to saving with the other financial institutions; and C) there is no significant relationship between the insured's demographic/socioeconomic characteristics, and the amount of life insurance purchased. The design of the research is by facets. The faceted design permits the whole universe of content under investigation to be observed and a limited content of this universe to be systematically sampled. The data is collected by means of personally administered interview questionnaires to 300 respondents (150 insured and 150 non-insured) . Since the data collected is of two major different groups of variables (i.e., attitudinal and categorical), two different techniques of analysis are employed. The first group (attitudinal) is non-metric, i.e" ordinal scaled, multivariate, and interdependent data, whereas the second group (categorical) is multivariate and dependent data of both nominal and interval types. Therefore, the decision was made to use the Non-metric Multidimensional Scaling (NMS) technique for the analysis of the attitudinal data, whereas the Multiple Classification Analysis (MCA) was found to be the most appropriate one for the categorical data. The MINISSA computer program output employed in this study, investigates the similarities and dissimilarities between the two typolcgies' (insured and non-insured) attitudes to life insurance purchasing decision variables. A Wilcoxon test has been employed to investigate the significance of hypotheses A and B, whereas F-ratio test is used for testing hypothesis c. A Kendall correlation analysis is also carried out on the relationship between the variables that are assumed to determine the life insurance purchasing decisions. The research conclusions are: i) the two typologies are similar in their (average) expressed attitudes to life insurance purchasing decision variables; ii) the most important reasons for purchasing life insurance (by both typologies) are: 1) the protection of dependents; 2) saving purposes for daughters' marriage costs; and 3) retirement income/old age protection; iii) the most desirable financial facilities (offered by the insurer) are: 1) profit sharing; 2) borrowing against the cash value of the policy; and 3) the guarantee of surrender values; iv) the most important financial aspects for purchasing life insurance are: 1) a small amount of money being invested; 2) safety for money; and 3) provision against inflation. The significantly different attitudes expressed by the two typologies are those with regard to the importance attached to having life insurance against saving with the other financial institutions. It is concluded that the most distinctive function of life insurance programmes is to cover risks (protection element), whereas saving with the other financial institutions is considered to be of more importance where the purpose(s) is to get a high return on investments and/or saving for emergency situations. The findings on the MCA output show that the selected predictors account for a relatively high proportion of the variance in the amount of life insurance purchased (R2 = 55%). However, the most important explanatory variable is found to be current income. The investigation finally concludes by suggesting the potential applications of these research findings for the process of decision making in the life insurance marketing management in Egypt.
Books on the topic "Insurance studies"
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Waterhouse, Richard. The insurance man. Croydon: Leyburn Designs, 1994.
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Toivanen, Otto. Industrial economics studies in insurance markets. [s.l.]: typescript, 1994.
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Farley, Short Pamela. Data sources for studies of self-insured health plans. Santa Monica, CA: RAND, 1995.
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Gadrey, J. Studies on productivity in insurance and services. Genève: Association internationale pour l'étude de l'économie de l'assurance, 1992.
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Mekonnen, Merid, ed. Case studies on rural insurance in Africa. [Addis Ababa]: United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, 1993.
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Sharp, David W. Offshore oil and gas insurance. London: Witherby, 1994.
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Laeven, Luc. The political economy of deposit insurance. Washington, D.C: World Bank, 2004.
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Rogers, Paul P. Insurance in socialist East Europe. New York: Praeger, 1988.
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Browning, Martin. Studies of the interaction of UI and welfare using the COEP dataset. [Ottawa]: Human Resources Development Canada, 1995.
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Institute, International Risk Management, ed. IRMI's political risk insurance guide. Dallas, Tex: International Risk Management Institute, 1999.
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Corea, Francesco. "AI and Insurance." In Studies in Big Data, 57–61. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04468-8_9.
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Ahmed, Maram. "Disaster Risk Insurance." In Palgrave Studies in Impact Finance, 175–211. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-83209-4_7.
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Asmussen, Søren, and Mogens Steffensen. "Chapter VII: Special Studies in Life Insurance." In Risk and Insurance, 189–245. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-35176-2_7.
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Śliwiński, Adam, and Pierpaolo Marano. "Innovation in Life Insurance: The Economic Landscape and the Insurance Distribution Directive." In Financial and Monetary Policy Studies, 165–75. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49655-5_11.
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Kleindorfer, Paul R., and J. Matthias Graf v. d. Schulenburg. "Intergenerational Equity and Fund Balances for Statutory Health Insurance." In Microeconomic Studies, 108–29. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 1986. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-95498-6_6.
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Waser, Otto, and Peter Zweifel. "Innovation in Health Insurance: Bonus Systems in Western Germany." In Microeconomic Studies, 169–95. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 1986. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-95498-6_8.
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Vavouranakis, Prokopis, Spyros Panagiotakis, George Mastorakis, and Constandinos X. Mavromoustakis. "Smartphone-Based Telematics for Usage Based Insurance." In Studies in Big Data, 309–39. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45145-9_13.
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Meyer, Donald J., and Jack Meyer. "A more reasonable model of insurance demand." In Studies in Economic Theory, 733–42. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-05858-9_35.
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Fratianni, Michele. "Bank Deposit Insurance in the European Union." In European and Transatlantic Studies, 144–76. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 1995. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-57811-3_7.
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Arnaboldi, Francesca. "The European Deposit Insurance Scheme." In Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Banking and Financial Institutions, 123–41. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-23429-4_7.
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Moroshkina, Marina V. "Financial And Insurance Market Trends." In Conference on Land Economy and Rural Studies Essentials. European Publisher, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.15405/epsbs.2021.07.68.
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Dean, R. G., T. L. Walton, and D. Hatheway. "WAVE SETUP IN U. S. FLOOD INSURANCE STUDIES." In Proceedings of the 31st International Conference. World Scientific Publishing Company, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/9789814277426_0081.
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Ayu, Aulia Suminar. "Maximizing Garbage Clinical Insurance Adoption Through Communication Network." In International Conference on Media and Communication Studies(ICOMACS 2018). Paris, France: Atlantis Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.2991/icomacs-18.2018.22.
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Oktorianto, Bintang, Moh A. Amin Soetomo, and Charles Lim. "Risk Assessment For Enterprise Application In The Insurance Sector." In 2021 6th International Conference on New Media Studies (CONMEDIA). IEEE, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/conmedia53104.2021.9617196.
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Ageeva, Evgeniya. "Development Of Mutual Insurance In Russia Based On Social Economy Idea." In Trends and Innovations in Economic Studies, Science on Baikal Session. European Publisher, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.15405/epsbs.2020.12.2.
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Khitrova, Elena. "Impact Assessment Of Various Factors On Financial Stability Of Insurance Company." In Trends and Innovations in Economic Studies, Science on Baikal Session. European Publisher, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.15405/epsbs.2020.12.42.
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Shumilina, Vera, Artem Ksenofontov, and Adelina Slezova. "INSURANCE MARKET TRANSFORMATION DURING PANDEMIC PERIOD." In Economy of Russia: problems, trends, forecasts. au: AUS PUBLISHERS, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.26526/conferencearticle_61cc296c14ec68.98766430.
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The article is devoted to the research analysis of the current patterns of development of the insurance system during the pandemic. Insurance is an integral part of the life of every person and enterprise. In this paper, studies of insurance as part of the economy in a pandemic are carried out. The problems of the work of insurance organizations in the conditions of a pandemic are identified, as well as ways to solve them are outlined. Summing up, we can say what big changes have taken place not only on the economy market as a whole, but also on insurance.
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Grosser, Thomas, Alexander C. Schmid, Markus Deuling, Hoang-Nam Nguyen, and Wolfgang Rosenstiel. "Off-loading compute intensive tasks for insurance products using a just-in-time compiler on a hybrid system." In the 2009 Conference of the Center for Advanced Studies. New York, New York, USA: ACM Press, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1723028.1723055.
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Saka, T. S. "Covid 19: Implication for Insurance, Risk Management and Insurability of Pandemic Risk." In 27th iSTEAMS-ACity-IEEE International Conference. Society for Multidisciplinary and Advanced Research Techniques - Creative Research Publishers, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.22624/aims/isteams-2021/v27p21.
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Covid 19: Implication for Insurance, Risk Management and Insurability of Pandemic Risk SAKA, Toyin Shafau Lecturer, Insurance Department Lagos State Polytechnic, School of Management and Business Studies. E-mail: sakysuccess@yahoo.com Phone: +2348076023583 ABSTRACT The incessant fall in the world economy has a result of the COVID–19 epidemic attracted the interest of many researchers. The pandemic brought about a sharp decline in insurance business and economic growth of the nation, this warranted the closure of many businesses and the insurance businesses is not spared. The objective of this paper is to ascertain the effect of Covid 19 on the insurance business and to determine the most efficient risk management strategies that can coup the effect of the Covid 19 pandemic. Both secondary and primary data was used for this study. Regression model was employed to test the hypotheses raised in this paper. This paper revealed that Covid 19 has significant negative effect on the business operation of insurance businesses in Nigeria. Arisen from the analysis of the study, the paper recommended that: insurance industry should employ effective risk management strategy; there is urgent need for insurance industries to re-strategies their business operation by introducing new products and services; and insurance companies should introduce attractive prices through price reduction and engage fully the e-marketing system. Keyword: COVID – 19 pandemics, Insurance, Risk Management, Insurability
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DOAN, Mai Thi, and Sergey I. DUKHNO. "INVESTIGATION OF POSSIBLE ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGES TO THE HEALTH INSURANCE SYSTEM IN VIETNAM." In International Scientific Conference „Contemporary Issues in Business, Management and Economics Engineering". Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.3846/cibmee.2021.640.
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Purpose – to identify the prerequisites for organizational changes of the emerging health insurance system in Vietnam. Research methodology - comparative analysis, statistical analysis, case study. Findings – the obligatory health insurance in Vietnam performs its functions only partially. There is still high level of out-of-pocket spending on medical services. First we identified one of the most important challenges to the health insurance system in Vietnam, namely, the population aging. Secondly, we identified and analyzed and the prerequisites (the pre-existing conditions), which can become the basis for the reorganization of the existing health insurance system without major reforms: (1) the cultural values of Asian society, which allow to build a community-based type model of living for the elderly on the basis of “equal with equal”; (2) technological advances in medicine that extend the healthy life of the elderly, (3) trust in traditional medicine, which allows widen the coverage of the poorest “elderly households”. Practical implications - the results of the study require attention from the government and insurance providers when rethinking of organizing process for mandatory medical insurance. Originality/Value – we have identified the ways of possible organizational changes for the health insurance system, making the most of the existing prerequisites. This can help to get closer to the goal of full coverage with health insurance services while achieving a positive social effect. The identified internal reserves make it possible to imple- ment organizational changes without major reforms of the established health insurance system. No studies have been conducted in this perspective.
Reports on the topic "Insurance studies"
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Marsden, Eric. Risk regulation, liability and insurance: literature review of their influence on safety management. Fondation pour une culture de sécurité industrielle, September 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.57071/337rrl.
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This document provides a short literature review on the complementarity (and antagonisms) between liability rules, safety regulation and insurance and their effect on safety management. It draws on a range of disciplines, with a focus on economic analysis of law and regulation theory. Some of the issues discussed are rather complex; this document attempts to provide simple explanations together with references to the professional literature for the interested reader. Some issues are the subject of ongoing debate between scholars; in such situations, we have attempted to present the various points of view. The document provides background information concerning the topics discussed during the NeTWork’2012 workshop, and draws on some of the contributions of workshop participants and the rich discussion which took place during the three days. The first chapter presents issues related to regulation, starting with the classical economic justifications for state intervention (presence of externalities, information failures and moral hazard). A number of obstacles to the effectiveness of safety regulation are presented. Finally, some alternatives or complements to regulation, including self-regulation, are briefly discussed. Chapter 2 presents an overview of liability law, starting with some introductory definitions. Factors which weaken the effectiveness of liability as an incentive to invest in prevention are discussed, as are negative effects of liability regimes on safety management. A number of case studies illustrating the liability of regulators are briefly presented. Chapter 3 discusses the impact of insurance and reinsurance on firms’ and individuals’ safety management. The last chapter briefly analyzes firms’ and individuals’ sources of motivation to take care.
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Vock, Pia, and Nikolaj Wächtershäuser. Efficacy of internet-based Self-Management Interventions for Depression in German: Protocol for a systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. INPLASY - International Platform of Registered Systematic Review and Meta-analysis Protocols, May 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.37766/inplasy2022.5.0070.
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Review question / Objective: The aim of this systematic review and meta-analysis is to examine the effectiveness of internet-based self-management interventions for depressive symptoms in adults, which are available in German and have been tested via randomized controlled trials. The interventions must be either available for free or covered by public health insurance. Information sources: The electronic database PubMed will be used for systematic literature search. Additionally, the “DiGA-Verzeichnis” of the “Bundesinstitut für Arzneimittel und Medizinprodukte” as well as the manufacturers' websites of the identified interventions will be searched for relevant studies. The knowledge of an expert on digital interventions for mental disorders also serves as a source of information.
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Bukataru, Y. S., O. V. Horbatiuk, and T. I. Filatenko. Means of forming the professional competence of students of TEI. Wschodnioeuropejskie Czasopismo Naukowe, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.31812/123456789/4546.
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The paper studies the process and means of forming the professional competence of students of TEI, which are an important structural element for the formation of effective activities at relevant institutions. The interpretation of the concept of the categories “personality competence”, “competence” and “web-quest” is analyzed. Problem quests concerning theoretical and practical training of students, and procedures of internship practice on professional specialization are investigated. The pedagogical conditions of creation of professional competence of students in the preconditions of professional and practical training are studied. The model of organization of professional competence of the perspective specialist-graduates of TEI is formed and the ways of reorganization of educational process and organizational-methodical insurance are defined. It has been established that the quality of education at TEI largely depends on the method of formation of the educational process, the chosen forms and methods. The role and basic objectives of the preliminary preparatory work on the part of the teacher are formed. It has been investigated that the web-quest is unanimously recognized as a motivational, resource-oriented technology that forms the course of creative potential of the student, which guarantees the effectiveness of all types of educational process and ensures the creation of appropriate professional competence of students.
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Mobley, Erin M., Diana J. Moke, Joel Milam, Carol Y. Ochoa, Julia Stal, Nosa Osazuwa, Maria Bolshakova, et al. Disparities and Barriers to Pediatric Cancer Survivorship Care. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), March 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.23970/ahrqepctb39.
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Objectives. Survival rates for pediatric cancer have dramatically increased since the 1970s, and the population of childhood cancer survivors (CCS) exceeds 500,000 in the United States. Cancer during childhood and related treatments lead to long-term health problems, many of which are poorly understood. These problems can be amplified by suboptimal survivorship care. This report provides an overview of the existing evidence and forthcoming research relevant to disparities and barriers for pediatric cancer survivorship care, outlines pending questions, and offers guidance for future research. Data sources. This Technical Brief reviews published peer-reviewed literature, grey literature, and Key Informant interviews to answer five Guiding Questions regarding disparities in the care of pediatric survivors, barriers to cancer survivorship care, proposed strategies, evaluated interventions, and future directions. Review methods. We searched research databases, research registries, and published reviews for ongoing and published studies in CCS to October 2020. We used the authors’ definition of CCS; where not specified, CCS included those diagnosed with any cancer prior to age 21. The grey literature search included relevant professional and nonprofit organizational websites and guideline clearinghouses. Key Informants provided content expertise regarding published and ongoing research, and recommended approaches to fill identified gaps. Results. In total, 110 studies met inclusion criteria. We identified 26 studies that assessed disparities in survivorship care for CCS. Key Informants discussed subgroups of CCS by race or ethnicity, sex, socioeconomic status, and insurance coverage that may experience disparities in survivorship care, and these were supported in the published literature. Key Informants indicated that major barriers to care are providers (e.g., insufficient knowledge), the health system (e.g., availability of services), and payers (e.g., network adequacy); we identified 47 studies that assessed a large range of barriers to survivorship care. Sixteen organizations have outlined strategies to address pediatric survivorship care. Our searches identified only 27 published studies that evaluated interventions to alleviate disparities and reduce barriers to care. These predominantly assessed approaches that targeted patients. We found only eight ongoing studies that evaluated strategies to address disparities and barriers. Conclusions. While research has addressed disparities and barriers to survivorship care for childhood cancer survivors, evidence-based interventions to address these disparities and barriers to care are sparse. Additional research is also needed to examine less frequently studied disparities and barriers and to evaluate ameliorative strategies in order to improve the survivorship care for CCS.
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Ayala-García, Jhorland, and Sandy Dall’Erba. The impact of preemptive investment on natural disasters. Banco de la República, September 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.32468/dtseru.301.
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Extreme rainfall events are expected to become more frequent and more intense in the future. Because their mitigation is a challenge and their cost to human life is large, this paper studies the impact of preemptive investment against natural disasters on the future occurrence of landslides and the losses associated with it. Based on a panel of 746 Colombian municipalities with medium and high risk of landslides and an instrumental variable approach, we find that preemptive public investment can reduce the number of landslides, the number of people who die, are injured, or disappear after a landslide, as well as the number of people affected. However, we do not find any effect on the number of houses destroyed. The results reveal that local governments focus their preventive measures on saving the lives and the physical integrity of their citizens, but they pay less attention to the direct market losses of natural disasters. These results are relevant in the presence of imperfect private insurance markets and increased informal settlements.
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Mader, Philip, Maren Duvendack, Adrienne Lees, Aurelie Larquemin, and Keir Macdonald. Enablers, Barriers and Impacts of Digital Financial Services: Insights from an Evidence Gap Map and Implications for Taxation. Institute of Development Studies, June 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.19088/ictd.2022.008.
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Digital financial services (DFS) have expanded rapidly over the last decade, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. They have been accompanied by claims that they can alleviate poverty, empower women, help businesses grow, and improve macroeconomic outcomes and government effectiveness. As they have become more widespread, some controversy has arisen as governments have identified DFS revenues and profits as potential sources of tax revenue. Evidence-based policy in relation to taxing DFS requires an understanding of the enablers and barriers (preconditions) of DFS, as well as the impacts of DFS. This report aims to present insights from an Evidence Gap Map (EGM) on the enablers and barriers, and subsequent impacts, of DFS, including any research related to taxation. An EGM serves to clearly identify the gaps in the evidence base in a visually intuitive way, allowing researchers to address these gaps. This can help to shape future research agendas. Our EGM draws on elements from the systematic review methodology. We develop a transparent set of inclusion criteria and comprehensive search strategy to identify relevant studies, and assess the confidence we can place in their causal findings. An extensive search initially identified 389 studies, 205 of which met the inclusion criteria and were assessed based on criteria of cogency, transparency and credibility. We categorised 40 studies as high confidence, 97 as medium confidence, and 68 as low confidence. We find that the evidence base is still relatively thin, but growing rapidly. The high-confidence evidence base is dominated by quantitative approaches, especially experimental study designs. The geographical focus of many studies is East Africa. The dominant DFS intervention studied is mobile money. The majority of studies focus on DFS usage for payments and transfers; fewer studies focus on savings, very few on credit, and none on insurance. The strongest evidence base on enablers and barriers relates to how user attributes and industry structure affect DFS. Little is known about how policy and politics, including taxation, and macroeconomic and social factors, affect DFS. The evidence base on impacts is strongest at the individual and household level, and partly covers the business level. The impact of DFS on the macroeconomy, and the meso level of industry and government, is very limited. We find no high-confidence evidence on the role of taxation. We need more higher quality evidence on a variety of topics. This should particularly look at enablers, constraints and impacts, including the role of taxation, beyond the individual and household level. Research going forward should cover more geographic areas and a wider range of purposes DFS can serve (use cases), including savings, and particularly credit. More methodological variety should be encouraged – experiments can be useful, but are not the best method for all research questions.
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Lumpkin, Shamsie, Isaac Parrish, Austin Terrell, and Dwayne Accardo. Pain Control: Opioid vs. Nonopioid Analgesia During the Immediate Postoperative Period. University of Tennessee Health Science Center, July 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.21007/con.dnp.2021.0008.
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Background Opioid analgesia has become the mainstay for acute pain management in the postoperative setting. However, the use of opioid medications comes with significant risks and side effects. Due to increasing numbers of prescriptions to those with chronic pain, opioid medications have become more expensive while becoming less effective due to the buildup of patient tolerance. The idea of opioid-free analgesic techniques has rarely been breached in many hospitals. Emerging research has shown that opioid-sparing approaches have resulted in lower reported pain scores across the board, as well as significant cost reductions to hospitals and insurance agencies. In addition to providing adequate pain relief, the predicted cost burden of an opioid-free or opioid-sparing approach is significantly less than traditional methods. Methods The following groups were considered in our inclusion criteria: those who speak the English language, all races and ethnicities, male or female, home medications, those who are at least 18 years of age and able to provide written informed consent, those undergoing inpatient or same-day surgical procedures. In addition, our scoping review includes the following exclusion criteria: those who are non-English speaking, those who are less than 18 years of age, those who are not undergoing surgical procedures while admitted, those who are unable to provide numeric pain score due to clinical status, those who are unable to provide written informed consent, and those who decline participation in the study. Data was extracted by one reviewer and verified by the remaining two group members. Extraction was divided as equally as possible among the 11 listed references. Discrepancies in data extraction were discussed between the article reviewer, project editor, and group leader. Results We identified nine primary sources addressing the use of ketamine as an alternative to opioid analgesia and post-operative pain control. Our findings indicate a positive correlation between perioperative ketamine administration and postoperative pain control. While this information provides insight on opioid-free analgesia, it also revealed the limited amount of research conducted in this area of practice. The strategies for several of the clinical trials limited ketamine administration to a small niche of patients. The included studies provided evidence for lower pain scores, reductions in opioid consumption, and better patient outcomes. Implications for Nursing Practice Based on the results of the studies’ randomized controlled trials and meta-analyses, the effects of ketamine are shown as an adequate analgesic alternative to opioids postoperatively. The cited resources showed that ketamine can be used as a sole agent, or combined effectively with reduced doses of opioids for multimodal therapy. There were noted limitations in some of the research articles. Not all of the cited studies were able to include definitive evidence of proper blinding techniques or randomization methods. Small sample sizes and the inclusion of specific patient populations identified within several of the studies can skew data in one direction or another; therefore, significant clinical results cannot be generalized to patient populations across the board.
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Avis, William. Refugee and Mixed Migration Displacement from Afghanistan. Institute of Development Studies (IDS), August 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.19088/k4d.2022.002.
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This rapid literature review summarises evidence and key lessons that exist regarding previous refugee and mixed migration displacement from Afghanistan to surrounding countries. The review identified a diverse literature that explored past refugee and mixed migration, with a range of quantitative and qualitative studies identified. A complex and fluid picture is presented with waves of mixed migration (both outflow and inflow) associated with key events including the: Soviet–Afghan War (1979–1989); Afghan Civil War (1992–96); Taliban Rule (1996–2001); War in Afghanistan (2001–2021). A contextual picture emerges of Afghans having a long history of using mobility as a survival strategy or as social, economic and political insurance for improving livelihoods or to escape conflict and natural disasters. Whilst violence has been a principal driver of population movements among Afghans, it is not the only cause. Migration has also been associated with natural disasters (primarily drought) which is considered a particular issue across much of the country – this is associated primarily with internal displacement. Further to this, COVID-19 is impacting upon and prompting migration to and from Afghanistan. Data on refugee and mixed migration movement is diverse and at times contradictory given the fluidity and the blurring of boundaries between types of movements. Various estimates exist for numbers of Afghanistan refugees globally. It is also important to note that migratory flows are often fluid involving settlement in neighbouring countries, return to Afghanistan. In many countries, Afghani migrants and refugees face uncertain political situations and have, in recent years, been ‘coerced’ into returning to Afghanistan with much discussion of a ‘return bias’ being evident in official policies. The literature identified in this report (a mix of academic, humanitarian agency and NGO) is predominantly focused on Pakistan and Iran with a less established evidence base on the scale of Afghan refugee and migrant communities in other countries in the region. . Whilst conflict has been a primary driver of displacement, it has intersected with drought conditions and poor adherence to COVID-19 mitigation protocols. Past efforts to address displacement internationally have affirmed return as the primary objective in relation to durable solutions; practically, efforts promoted improved programming interventions towards creating conditions for sustainable return and achieving improved reintegration prospects for those already returned to Afghanistan.
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Woods, Rachel, Alison Zhong, and Madelyn Vincent. Factors Associated with Influenza & Tdap Vaccine Uptake in Pregnant Patients at the UT Family Medicine Clinic in Memphis. University of Tennessee Health Science Center, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.21007/com.lsp.2020.0003.
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INTRODUCTION: Given the increased risk for infections among pregnant patients and newborns, vaccination against influenza (>50,000,000 annual US cases affecting all ages) and pertussis (>15,000 annual US cases disproportionately affecting newborns) are recommended among pregnant patients in order to protect them and their babies via passive immunity to cover a newborn’s window of vaccine ineligibility. Though flu and Tdap vaccination rates among pregnant patients have been trending upwards nationally, there is still room for improvement to achieve optimal rates. OBJECTIVES: The primary objectives were to study factors that affect the vaccination rates at the University of Tennessee Family Medicine Clinic at Memphis (UTFMC-M), compare those rates with national pregnancy flu/Tdap vaccination rates, and to generate recommendations based off observed factors associated with vaccine uptake to improve flu/Tdap vaccination rates in UTFMC-M pregnant patients. METHODS: This was a retrospective chart review of UTFMC-M patients who were pregnant from September 1, 2019-April 24, 2020 (included 2019-2020 flu season) (n=465). Variables studied included demographic data (race, age, insurance), immunization history (vaccine status, history of physician encouragement), and prenatal history (parity, number of prenatal visits, trimester at first visit, high risk clinic (HRC) admittance status). Vaccination status was based on ACIP recommendations (Flu shot eligible = any gestational age; Tdap eligible = ≥27 weeks). Positive HRC admittance was noted for patients with ≥2 visits to the UTFMC-M HRC, a clinic that specializes in high risk pregnant patient care. RESULTS: The patient sample was predominantly black (84.3%) and insured by Medicaid programs (88%). Among eligible UTFMC-M pregnant patients, 50.1% were flu-vaccinated (n=465); 73.8% were Tdap-vaccinated (n=317); and 52.1% were Flu+Tdap-vaccinated (n=317). No significant associations were found between vaccine uptake and HRC status, parity, and age. However, statistically significant relationships were found between vaccine uptake and physician encouragement (positive relationship with flu shot: X2(1, N = 465) =131, p < 0.001, Tdap: X2 (6, N = 465) =476, p < 0.001), number of prenatal visits (flu shot group median 8 visits, Tdap group median 9 visits vs. unvaccinated group median 4 visits; p < 0.001), and early trimester age at first prenatal visit (X2(6, N = 465) =47.635 , p CONCLUSION: 2019-2020 UTFMC-M vaccination rates were on par with 2018-2019 US flu vaccine rates and higher than 2018-2019 US Tdap and Flu+Tdap rates. There were statistically significant relationships between vaccine uptake at UTFMC-M and physician encouragement, number of prenatal visits, and early trimester age at first prenatal visit but no significant relationships with UTFMC-M HRC admittance, parity, or age. Recommendations following from our observations to address further vaccine rate improvement include: continue vaccine encouragement, continue booking multiple visits (8 for flu, 9 for Tdap), prioritize Tdap vaccine higher for late trimester intake patients, and focus on flu vaccine encouragement and education.
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Evaluation of streams in selected communities for the application of limited-detail study methods for flood-insurance studies. US Geological Survey, 1986. http://dx.doi.org/10.3133/wri854098.
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