Medical Infrastructure and Not Medical Insurance Should Be the Focal Point to Tackle Pandemic in Developing Countries Like India: A Study

The mHealth field understandably arose from a base of practice, developed a nascent, yet ever-expanding, body of inter-disciplinary scholarship, and currently hopes for recognition by, and establishment on, national and trans-national policy bodies and agendas respectively. However, to justify public investment, policymakers require a body of theoretically sound, methodologically rigorous, and generalizable, evidence on how mobile technologies can effectively improve basic healthcare service delivery for hard-to-reach, resource-poor populations in developing countries. This essay draws upon prior work, ranging from a review article, an mHealth intervention for Indonesian healthcare workers within the medical infrastructure, to a text-messaging project in Uganda focused on beneficiaries. The argument is organized around theoretical, methodological, and sustainability issues, and proposes suggestions for how the discipline of mobile communication studies can add value to the field of mHealth research in developing countries.

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The Impact of Global Liquidity on Developing Countries

Handbook of Research on Global Enterprise Operations and Opportunities - Advances in Information Quality and Management ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-2245-4.ch016 ◽

2017 ◽

pp. 265-282

Author(s):

Erhan Genç ◽

Mustafa Karabacak

Keyword(s):

Developing Countries ◽

Financial Stability ◽

Focal Point ◽

Developed Countries ◽

Monetary Policies ◽

Growth Performances ◽

Excess Liquidity ◽

Causality Tests ◽

Global Liquidity ◽

National Economies

Global liquidity has become a focal point of international political discussions in recent years. Increasing international financial asset transactions and expansionary monetary policies, which central banks of developed countries adopt, generate excess liquidity around the world. Today with the increasing capital mobilization excess global liquidity becomes effective on the national economies and monetary policies of developing countries as well. It is seen that increasing risk appetite, especially after 2008 global crisis, causes a flow of global liquidity from developed countries to developing countries. The so-called liquidity may be effective on monetary policy stability, financial stability and growth performances. In other words; the increasing global liquidity may have both positive and negative influences on national economies. In this context; in this study, the effects of global liquidity on national economies is analyzed by using the measures of global liquidity and causality tests.

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An Empirical Study on the Influence of the Basic Medical Insurance for Urban and Rural Residents on Family Financial Asset Allocation

Frontiers in Public Health ◽

10.3389/fpubh.2021.725608 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 9 ◽

Author(s):

Shenglin Li ◽

Yifei Yang

Keyword(s):

Developing Countries ◽

Asset Allocation ◽

Medical Insurance ◽

Mediating Effect ◽

Financial Asset ◽

Rural Residents ◽

Measurement Models ◽

Basic Medical Insurance ◽

Urban And Rural Residents ◽

Basic Medical

This paper empirically examined whether participation in the Basic Medical Insurance for Urban and Rural Residents impacted families' allocation to risk assets and risk-free assets using the Heckman two-step method, which is based on the China Household Finance Survey micro data of 2013, 2015, and 2017. The results showed that participation in the Basic Medical Insurance for Urban and Rural Residents can promote families' reasonable choice between risk assets and risk-free assets to a certain extent. To be specific, the risk asset investments are squeezed out for the originally risk-seeking families, while the risk-free asset investments are squeezed out for the originally risk-adverse families. We tested the robustness of the benchmark model and the mediating effect model with different definitions of risk assets and risk-free assets. Also, the analysis of the mechanism showed that this increases families' risk perception—turning their risk attitude more cautious and their investment attitude more rational. To further consolidate the social security attributes of the Basic Medical Insurance for Urban and Rural Residents, behind its high coverage, we should also pay attention to its influence on the investment preferences of families with different social and economic statuses, thereby giving full play to its role in promoting the development of China's financial market. In future research, we can also try to use measurement models such as PSM-DID models, and find the connections and progressive relations between different models, in order to obtain the inquiry results of different dimensions. For the direction of further research in the future, we believe that can be used to test whether the conclusion whose data configuration of the basic medical insurance for family financial assets choice influence is a universal in developing countries, to explore the developing countries to promote the health security system for the influence of its national household financial asset allocation and the corresponding policy recommendations.JEL Classification: D14, G11, H55, I18.

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A framework for adopting green leasing in developing countries: the case of Sri Lanka

Built Environment Project and Asset Management ◽

10.1108/bepam-11-2016-0059 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 7 (4) ◽

pp. 377-387 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Nayani Hettige ◽

B.A.K.S. Perera ◽

Harshini Mallawaarachchi

Keyword(s):

Developing Countries ◽

Sri Lanka ◽

Focal Point ◽

Green Buildings ◽

Structured Interviews ◽

Content Type ◽

Sustainable Operation ◽

Important Approach ◽

Comprehensive Framework

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to identify the enablers and barriers to the adoption of green leasing in Sri Lanka and propose probable solutions. Design/methodology/approach As an in-depth investigation was required, the case study method with a qualitative approach was selected as the research methodology. A documentary review and semi-structured interviews on three selected green buildings were conducted to study their leasing processes. QSR NVivo statistical analysis software was used for the content analysis. Findings Enablers and barriers to the adoption of green leasing under different categories such as those related to processes, institutions and government and also to legal, economic and social factors were determined along with probable solutions identified through a comprehensive framework that was developed. Practical implications The findings can be used as a basis to evaluate the current leasing processes that have adopted this emerging and important approach toward the sustainable operation and management of green buildings. Originality/value The little attention paid to this latest concept makes it important to evaluate the adoptability of green leasing in developing countries. Hence, the determination of key enablers, barriers and solutions was the focal point of this research.

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A Former Diplomat’s Reflections on the Vienna Convention

10.1093/oso/9780198795940.003.0002 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Brian Barder

Keyword(s):

Developing Countries ◽

Case Studies ◽

Focal Point ◽

Personal Perspective ◽

Vienna Convention ◽

Diplomatic Relations ◽

British Embassy ◽

Western Democracies

This chapter offers a personal perspective of the VCDR, from the perspective of a former British Ambassador. A focal point of the chapter is the question whether diplomats still need their immunities under the VCDR—a theme pursued in the context of postings in developing countries and developed western democracies. Several case studies illustrate the findings, including the ‘walk-in’ by four Soviet citizens into the British embassy in Moscow in 1972 and the shooting of Yvonne Fletcher from the Libyan People’s Bureau in London in 1984. The chapter also considers the VCDR’s implications on the promotion of friendly relations between States and the rule of non-interference. It thus builds a bridge between the scholarly and the professional approaches towards diplomatic relations and reaches the conclusion that the VCDR has stood up well and remains indispensable for the continued practice of diplomacy.

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Air Pollution and Medical Insurance: From a Health-Based Perspective

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su132313157 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (23) ◽

pp. 13157

Author(s):

Siyu Chen ◽

Lingyun He

Keyword(s):

Air Pollution ◽

Developing Countries ◽

Longitudinal Study ◽

Critical Illness ◽

Empirical Evidence ◽

Medical Insurance ◽

Causal Effects ◽

Health Movement ◽

Medical Security ◽

Basic Medical

Using the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS), this paper quantifies the causal effects of air pollution on the demand for medical insurance. Results suggest that the rise in air pollution is associated with an increased probability of purchasing medical insurance. Furthermore, residents are more inclined to have basic medical and commercial insurance, rather than critical illness insurance. In addition, the evidence of two possible channels through which air pollution is related to purchasing insurance are found, including causing chronic diseases and depression. This study provides empirical evidence for China and other developing countries to improve the medical security system and promote the national health movement.

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Factors and tendencies of evolution changes of medical insurance development: international practice

Fundamental and applied researches in practice of leading scientific schools ◽

10.33531/farplss.2019.1.39 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 31 (1) ◽

pp. 209-212

Author(s):

Yu. Shevchuk

Keyword(s):

Developing Countries ◽

North American ◽

Financial Support ◽

Medical Insurance ◽

European Countries ◽

Eu Countries ◽

National Medical ◽

Convergence And Divergence ◽

Insurance Development ◽

Asian North American

In article we.ve analyzed the development of national medical insurance through the prism of convergence and divergence. Defined the part of state expenses in total expenditures of healthcare in few EU and UIC countries in 2010, 2014, 2017 and 2018. Outlined three groups of countries by development of medical insurance financial support: 1) developed, who is characterized by convergence and mainly includes old EU countries; 2) developing countries, who is characterized both by convergence and divergence and mainly includes new EU countries; 3) new developing countries, who is characterized by divergence and mainly includes post-soviet countries including Ukraine and the least developed South European countries. Listed the international examples of medical insurance development based on convergence and divergence in European, Asian, North American, African and Persian regions.

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Integrating perspectives: How the development of second-personal competence lays the foundation for a second-personal morality

Behavioral and Brain Sciences ◽

10.1017/s0140525x1900236x ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 43 ◽

Author(s):

John Corbit ◽

Chris Moore

Keyword(s):

Empirical Evidence ◽

Developmental Process ◽

Focal Point ◽

Personal Information ◽

Personal Competence ◽

Triadic Interactions ◽

Personal Morality ◽

Integrative Process

Abstract The integration of first-, second-, and third-personal information within joint intentional collaboration provides the foundation for broad-based second-personal morality. We offer two additions to this framework: a description of the developmental process through which second-personal competence emerges from early triadic interactions, and empirical evidence that collaboration with a concrete goal may provide an essential focal point for this integrative process.

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CBED Shadow Images and Cs:Aberration Measurement

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s0424820100055813 ◽

1982 ◽

Vol 40 ◽

pp. 696-697

Author(s):

R. W. Carpenter ◽

I.Y.T. Chan ◽

J. M. Cowley

Keyword(s):

Focal Point ◽

Spherical Aberration ◽

Optic Axis ◽

Wide Angle ◽

Caustic Surface ◽

Convergent Beam

Wide-angle convergent beam shadow images(CBSI) exhibit several characteristic distortions resulting from spherical aberration. The most prominent is a circle of infinite magnification resulting from rays having equal values of a forming a cross-over on the optic axis at some distance before reaching the paraxial focal point. This distortion is called the tangential circle of infinite magnification; it can be used to align and stigmate a STEM and to determine Cs for the probe forming lens. A second distortion, the radial circle of infinite magnification, results from a cross-over on the lens caustic surface of rays with differing values of ∝a, also before the paraxial focal point of the lens.

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