scholarly journals The Effect of Global Political Risk on Stock Returns: A Cross-Sectional and a Time-Series Analysis

Author(s):  
Karen Vargas ◽  
Angelica Gonzalez ◽  
Jesus Silva
Author(s):  
Amelec Viloria ◽  
Indira Meñaca Guerrero ◽  
Hugo Martínez Caraballo ◽  
Nelson Orellano Llinas ◽  
Lesbia Valero ◽  
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CJEM ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (S1) ◽  
pp. S39-S39
Author(s):  
J. Moe ◽  
C. Camargo ◽  
S. E. Jelinski ◽  
S. Erdelyi ◽  
J. Brubacher ◽  
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Introduction: Substance and opioid misuse are growing public health concerns in Canada. Substance use disorders affect 21.6% of Canadians and accounted for $267 million in healthcare costs in 2011. Opioid misuse is a current public health crisis. The extent of the rise in substance and opioid misuse-related Emergency Department (ED) visits in Canada and the demographic groups in which the rise is concentrated have not been elaborated. Alberta has one of the most complete provincial ED visit records and provides an important understanding of national trends. The objective of this study was to evaluate trends in substance and opioid misuse-related ED visits in Alberta from 2010/11 to 2014/5 within demographic cross-sections of the population using administrative ED visit data from the National Ambulatory Care Reporting System (NACRS). Methods: All visits made by adult patients (18 years old) to any of more than 100 Albertan EDs for a substance misuse-related presentation between 2010/11 and 2014/15 were analyzed. Visits were classified as being related to substance or opioid misuse if the primary and/or secondary visit diagnoses were among an a priori determined group of ICD-10 codes. Annual substance misuse-related visits were compared as visits per 100,000 adult population in Alberta to standardize for population growth. Linear regression was used to assess whether ED visits increased significantly over time. A cross-sectional time-series analysis was employed to examine trends within subgroups defined by sex and age categories (18-29, 30-39, 40-49, 50-59, and 60 years) over a 60-month period. Results: 149,719 substance misuse-related visits were made by 65,089 patients and 8768 opioid misuse-related visits were made by 5763 patients. From 2010/11 to 2014/15, substance misuse-related ED visits in Alberta increased by 38% from 811 to 1119 visits per 100,000 population. Opioid misuse-related ED visits increased significantly (64%) from 44 to 72 per 100,000 population. Conversely, total ED visits per 100,000 population did not increase significantly. Substance and opioid misuse-related visits rose more in non-rural than rural areas. Cross-sectional time-series analysis showed that the greatest increase in substance and opioid misuse-related ED visits occurred in males and in the 18-29 year age category, in which visit increases for opioid misuse appeared exponential. Conclusion: Substance and opioid misuse-related ED visits increased significantly from 2010/11 to 2014/15 in Alberta, with the most dramatic increases occurring in young patients and males. These findings have important implications for targeting urgent preventative public health interventions to stem the rise of this epidemic.


1986 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 331-349 ◽  
Author(s):  
John J. Beggs

This article proposes the use of spectral methods to pool cross-sectional replications (N) of time series data (T) for time series analysis. Spectral representations readily suggest a weighting scheme to pool the data. The asymptotically desirable properties of the resulting estimators seem to translate satisfactorily into samples as small as T = 25 with N = 5. Simulation results, Monte Carlo results, and an empirical example help confirm this finding. The article concludes that there are many empirical situations where spectral methods canbe used where they were previously eschewed.


Viruses ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (7) ◽  
pp. 1314
Author(s):  
Ahmad Shakeri ◽  
Natalia Konstantelos ◽  
Cherry Chu ◽  
Tony Antoniou ◽  
Jordan Feld ◽  
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The 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has placed a significant strain on hepatitis programs and interventions (screening, diagnosis, and treatment) at a critical moment in the context of hepatitis C virus (HCV) elimination. We sought to quantify changes in Direct Acting Antiviral (DAA) utilization among different countries during the pandemic. We conducted a cross-sectional time series analysis between 1 September 2018 and 31 August 2020, using the IQVIA MIDAS database, which contains DAA purchase data for 54 countries. We examined the percent change in DAA units dispensed (e.g., pills and capsules) from March to August 2019 to the same period of time in 2020 across the 54 countries. Interrupted time-series analysis was used to examine the impact of COVID-19 on monthly rates of DAA utilization across each of the major developed economies (G7 nations). Overall, 46 of 54 (85%) jurisdictions experienced a decline in DAA utilization during the pandemic, with an average of −43% (range: −1% in Finland to −93% in Brazil). All high HCV prevalence (HCV prevalence > 2%) countries in the database experienced a decline in utilization, average −49% (range: −17% in Kazakhstan to −90% in Egypt). Across the G7 nations, we also observed a decreased trend in DAA utilization during the early months of the pandemic, with significant declines (p < 0.01) for Canada, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America. The global response to COVID-19 led to a large decrease in DAA utilization globally. Deliberate efforts to counteract the impact of COVID-19 on treatment delivery are needed to support the goal of HCV elimination.


2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vinaya Manchaiah ◽  
Pierre Ratinaud ◽  
Gerhard Andersson

BACKGROUND When people with health conditions begin to manage their health issues, one important issue that emerges is the question as to what exactly do they do with the information that they have obtained through various sources (eg, news media, social media, health professionals, friends, and family). The information they gather helps form their opinions and, to some degree, influences their attitudes toward managing their condition. OBJECTIVE This study aimed to understand how tinnitus is represented in the US newspaper media and in Facebook pages (ie, social media) using text pattern analysis. METHODS This was a cross-sectional study based upon secondary analyses of publicly available data. The 2 datasets (ie, text corpuses) analyzed in this study were generated from US newspaper media during 1980-2017 (downloaded from the database US Major Dailies by ProQuest) and Facebook pages during 2010-2016. The text corpuses were analyzed using the Iramuteq software using cluster analysis and chi-square tests. RESULTS The newspaper dataset had 432 articles. The cluster analysis resulted in 5 clusters, which were named as follows: (1) brain stimulation (26.2%), (2) symptoms (13.5%), (3) coping (19.8%), (4) social support (24.2%), and (5) treatment innovation (16.4%). A time series analysis of clusters indicated a change in the pattern of information presented in newspaper media during 1980-2017 (eg, more emphasis on cluster 5, focusing on treatment inventions). The Facebook dataset had 1569 texts. The cluster analysis resulted in 7 clusters, which were named as: (1) diagnosis (21.9%), (2) cause (4.1%), (3) research and development (13.6%), (4) social support (18.8%), (5) challenges (11.1%), (6) symptoms (21.4%), and (7) coping (9.2%). A time series analysis of clusters indicated no change in information presented in Facebook pages on tinnitus during 2011-2016. CONCLUSIONS The study highlights the specific aspects about tinnitus that the US newspaper media and Facebook pages focus on, as well as how these aspects change over time. These findings can help health care providers better understand the presuppositions that tinnitus patients may have. More importantly, the findings can help public health experts and health communication experts in tailoring health information about tinnitus to promote self-management, as well as assisting in appropriate choices of treatment for those living with tinnitus.


Pain Medicine ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 18 (6) ◽  
pp. 1019-1026 ◽  
Author(s):  
Herman Kwok ◽  
Wayne Khuu ◽  
Kimberly Fernandes ◽  
Diana Martins ◽  
Mina Tadrous ◽  
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