COVID19: Holiday intentions during a pandemic

Post-Pandemic Housing Architecture: Lessons from Covid19

Like other crises, the coronavirus epidemic has had a significant impact on our lives. As a result, the built environment has changed in order to adapt to new conditions and needs. Since Covid19 will not be the first and possibly the last epidemic, housing design must also adapt to the new reality. At present, the spatial properties of housing are influenced by strategies of social distance, qu...

Private Label Price Rigidity during Holiday Periods

Using weekly retail transaction scanner price data from a large U.S supermarket chain, we find significantly higher retail price rigidity for private label products than for nationally branded products during the Christmas and Thanksgiving holiday periods relative to the rest of the year. The finding cannot be explained by changes in holiday period promotional practices because we find that pri...

Searching PubMed during a Pandemic

BACKGROUND The 2009 influenza A(H1N1) pandemic has generated thousands of articles and news items. However, finding relevant scientific articles in such rapidly developing health crises is a major challenge which, in turn, can affect decision-makers' ability to utilise up-to-date findings and ultimately shape public health interventions. This study set out to show the impact that the inconsiste...

Globalization of Nursing Profession During a New Pandemic

Behavioural intentions in response to an influenza pandemic

BACKGROUND Little is known regarding which behavioural responses can be expected if an influenza pandemic were to occur. METHODS A survey comprising questions based on risk perception theories, in particular PMT, was conducted with a Dutch sample. RESULTS Although fear that an influenza pandemic may occur was high, participants do not feel well informed. General practitioners and local heal...