AIM The aim of this study was to explore and understand the complexity of ageing in relation to factors of importance for extending working life. METHOD Discourse analysis of documents was used in an integrative review including 128 articles. RESULT Four different conceptualisation of ageing are shown to affect older workers' ability to extend their working life: (a) biological ageing peopl...

This paper will consider the relationship between complexity economics and behavioral economics. A crucial key to this is to understand that Herbert Simon was both the founder of explicitly modern behavioral economics as well as one of the early developers of complexity theory. Bounded rationality was essentially derived from Simon's view of the impossibility of full rationality on the part of ...

1 Department of Rheumatology, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands 2 Department of Medical Technology Assessment, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands 3 Department of Health Organisation, Policy, and Economics, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands 4 Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Medical Technology, University Hospital Maast...

1 Ophthalmology Unit, Chiangkhum Hospital, Phayao, Thailand 2 International Health Policy Program, Ministry of Public Health, Nonthaburi, Thailand 3 Ophthalmology Department, Chiangmai University, Chiangmai, Thailand 4 Ophthalmology Unit, Priest Hospital, Bangkok, Thailand 5 School of Medicine, Health Policy and Practice, University of East Anglia, Norwich, England 6 Health Intervention and Tec...

Neoclassical theoretical approaches dominate modern health economics. However, the peculiarities of healthcare provision are so unusual that neoclassical theory is especially unsuited to the area. Even mainstream health economists often abandon Paretian welfare considerations to focus on needs instead. Problems relating to uncertainty and externalities are also widely acknowledged. This article...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The global migration of physicians has led many international physicians to enter practice in Alberta, Canada. The study was designed to explore the personal side of migration and transition experiences of these international medical graduates (IMGs). METHODS A qualitative study using telephone interviews and a semi-structured interview guide was used to interview 19...

1Pharmerit International, Bethesda, MD, USA; 2Center for Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomic Research, College of Pharmacy, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA; 3Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Sleep, and Allergy, Department of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA; 4Center of Pharmaceutical Outcomes Research, Department of Pharmacy Practice, ...

Identifying authorship correctly and efficiently is a difficult problem when the literature is abundant, but poorly recorded. Homonyms are tedious to differentiate. This paper describes how the field of economics has organized itself with respect to author identification. We describe the RePEc project with a special emphasis on the RePEc Author Service. We then discuss how the concept is curren...

INTRODUCTION The clinical concept of urticaria embraces a heterogeneous group of conditions classified according to their clinical course as acute (lasting less than 6 weeks) or chronic (lasting 6 weeks or more). Chronic urticaria may be either spontaneous or induced. Few tools are available for monitoring the various clinical forms of this disease or for evaluating its impact on quality of lif...