Contemporary Municipalities in Germany

Antibiotic Prophylaxis in Prostate Biopsies: Contemporary Practice Patterns in Germany

Purpose Prostate biopsy (pbx) is the most common outpatient procedure in urology. Complications are urinary tract infections, including hospitalization and sepsis. Recommendations on antibiotic prophylaxis (apx) are scarce, and healthcare data are not available. The study addressed the following endpoints: the duration and spectrum of antimicrobial prophylaxis in transrectal and transperineal p...

Recasting Welfare Capitalism: Economic Adjustment in Contemporary France and Germany

Analysis of contemporary HIV/AIDS health care costs in Germany

To analyze contemporary costs of HIV health care and the cost distribution across lines of combination antiretroviral therapy (cART). To identify variations in expenditures with patient characteristics and to identify main cost determinants. To compute cost ratios between patients with varying characteristics.Empirical data on costs are collected in Germany within a 2-year prospective observati...

The Protestant Ethic and Work: Micro Evidence from Contemporary Germany

Few studies in the social sciences have spurred more controversy than Max Weber’s The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. At the core of Weber’s theory lies a connection between Protestantism and attitudes toward work. Using micro-data from contemporary Germany, this paper investigates the impact of Protestantism on economic outcomes and whether any such connection still exists. To b...

Contemporary eHealth Literacy Research - An Overview with Focus on Germany

eHealth Literacy is a crucial topic in regarding the acceptance of consumers towards eHealth services. There are several measurement methods, nevertheless they all lack interactive aspects of trending technologies such as mobile health apps or self-tracking services. Furthermore none of them acknowledges cultural and social backgrounds. Although the topic is of great importance it seems to be u...