This paper evaluates the effects of a property tax bonus to promote the installation of solar–thermal energy systems in buildings in Andalusia (southern Spain). The propensity score matching methodology is used. The treatment group consists of municipalities of Andalusia that established property tax bonuses in their municipalities in 2010. The control group consists of municipalities that did ...

BACKGROUND Surgery is an essential element of breast cancer treatment. The aim of this study was to describe the progress and current practice in oncological breast surgery in Catalonia and Andalusia. MATERIAL AND METHOD An observational study was conducted, collecting data from the Minimum Basic Data Set at Hospital Discharge. RESULTS A total of 37,537 women from Catalonia and 24,186 from ...

INTRODUCTION The stroke mortality rate in Andalusia is twice that of other autonomous communities. This could be associated with the absence of neurologists in most local hospitals in this community, unlike in the rest of Spain. The objective of this study was to evaluate the impact of incorporating a neurologist to evaluate and monitor stroke patients in a local hospital in Andalusia. METHOD...

Platanus is a major cause of pollen allergy in many Spanish cities. The present paper reports an analysis of Platanus pollen season throughout the Andalusia region (southern Spain), which has among the highest pollen counts and the highest incidence of Platanus-related allergies in Europe. The main aim was to analyze pollen season trends from 1992 to 2010 in Andalusia; models were also construc...

A person's physical and social environment is considered as an influencing factor in terms of rates of engagement in physical activity. This study analyses the influence of socio-demographic, physical and social environmental factors on physical activity reported in the adult population in Andalusia. This is a cross-sectional study using data collected in the Andalusia Health Survey in 1999 and...

The Parliament of Andalusia records all the parliamentary sessions as well as generates files with the exact transcription of the files. With these two types of media, a search engine, starting from a user’s query, would return the relevant documents for that query, but also a link to the corresponding portion of the video where the speech is played. To achieve this goal, a previous tool to seg...

recent studies have shown that firms that have adopted environmental standards and thosethat have obtained official quality certifications achieve higher labour productivity than firms that have notdone so. unlike previous studies, this paper analyzes the combined effect of implementing environmentalgood practices and obtaining quality certifications on apparent labour productivity using a samp...

The aim of this study was to analyze the mutation pattern causing hemophilia A in a population from Southern Spain. Mutation analysis identified the mutation in 99 of the 109 unrelated patients enrolled in the Hemophilia Registry from Andalusia. About 54% of non-inversion mutations identified were previously unreported.