We use the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) to analyze determinants of the demand for supplemental health insurance covering hospital and dental in Germany. The GSOP dataset provides doctor diagnosed indicators of the individual’s health state, risk attitude, and demand for medical services and insurance purchases in other lines of insurance as well as rich demographical and socioeconomical ...

Methods Clinical data and information with regard to survival was collected for all ATTR patients between 1994 and 2014 in the University Medical Centre Groningen, which is the Dutch national centre of expertise. In total 114 consecutive patients carrying 10 different TTR mutations were admitted. Patients were divided into different groups based on their mutation. Only mutations present in more...

The rate of HIV diagnosis in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population in Australia has been stable over the past 5 years. It is similar to the rate in non-Indigenous people overall, but there are major differences in the demographical and behaviour patterns associated with infection, with a history of injecting drug use and heterosexual contact much more prominent in Aboriginal peop...

Since numerous criteria exist, appropriate career selection issue can be thought as a multi criteria decision making (MCDM) problem. The aim of this study is to show that career selection can be carried out via MCDM methods and to compare ordering results of these methods. In this study, a survey is administered to a university students. In application, eight professions are comparatively ranke...

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is an infectious caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronvirus, which was declared as a global pandemic the World Health Organization on March 11, 2020. In this work, we conduct cross-sectional study to investigate how infection fatality rate (IFR) of COVID-19 may be associated with possible geographical or demographical features infected population....

Homicide is defined as the "willful (non-negligent) killing of one human being by another.” In 1971 homicide was the leading cause of death for black women from 15 to 34 years of age and the third highest cause of death for white women from 15 to 29 years of age. In 1973 statistics listed homicide as the second leading cause of death for all women from 15 to 24 years of age. Homicide must there...

Lung cancer is a complex disease that often manifests at the point when treatment is not effective. Introduction of blood-based complementary diagnostics using molecular markers may enhance early detection of this disease and help reduce the burden of lung cancer. Here we evaluated the diagnostic potential of seven plasma miRNA biomarkers (miR-21, -19b, -126, -25, -205, -183, -125b) by quantita...

Environmental, demographical and psychological factors have a demonstrated impact on risky crossing behaviour. In this work we focus on the potential influence of social factors on the considered phenomenon (i.e. group crossing decision). We present the results of a video-recorded observation about the crossing behaviour of singles and dyads at non-signalized intersections. Results showed that ...

Parents' commitment to and usage of early intervention are key variables in understanding discrepancies in families' susceptibility to these services. Although the important role of fathers in infant development is widely recognized, early interpersonal predictors of paternal involvement in home-visiting programs have been understudied. This article aims to fill this gap by regressing parents' ...

Methods Observational study in the time interval from July 2013 to December 2014 (18 months). We prospectively registered all patients refused to admission in our unit, then we analyze the clinical refusal report used in our hospital. From these reports we extracted several variables: demographical (age, sex), origin (emergency room, hospital), clinical (comorbidity), functional situation (base...