Publications

Background: Borrowing money is a common strategy to cope with health care costs. The impact of borrowing on households can be severe, leading to indebtedness and further impoverishment. However, the available literature on borrowing practices for health is limited. We explore borrowing practices for paying for health care by the poor in Cambodia and provide a typology, associated conditions, and the extent of the phenomenon.

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BACKGROUND: Borrowing money is a common strategy to cope with health care costs. The impact of borrowing on households can be severe, leading to indebtedness and further impoverishment. However, the available literature on borrowing practices for health is limited. We explore borrowing practices for paying for health care by the poor in Cambodia and provide a typology, associated conditions, and the extent of the phenomenon. METHODS: In addition ...

In this study, we scrutinize the locally constructed indexical value of German loanwords in Belgian WWII-testimonies. We argue that these testimonies are situated in a specific WWII-remembrance context which forms a community of practice with its own local style. In particular, we selected three Flemish (i.e. Dutch) and three Walloon (i.e. French) spoken testimonies from our testimony-corpus. Methodologically, we draw on multimodal discourse ...

Appropriate public transport systems are crucial in modern cities. Given the high costs that they represent and the impact they have on people's lives, effective tools are required to support their design. With this in mind, the Transit Network Design and Frequency Setting problem (TNDFSP) has been extensively studied in the domain of Operations Research. The TNDFSP aims to optimize the sequence of stops to visit and the frequency for each bus ...

For a long time, public and semipublic organizations have borrowed Human Resource Management (HRM) practices from the private sector to enhance employee performance. Numerous scholars argue, however, that business-like practices are less effective outside the private sector context because of sector-specific conditions. Based on the ability-motivation-opportunity model, we performed a three-level meta-analysis to investigate differences in ...

1 Conclusion 1.1 Summary of Findings Currently in many developing countries many people who have no access to the services of official financial institutions, or who have only limited access to them, depend on informal credit markets. These markets provide credit to many SMEs. The informal credit market operates in different ways depending on different variables that affect its functions and form. The law of a country is the most ...

Fiscal disciplinary measures are now common practice in Europe, both at the country level and the regional level. Nonetheless, profound uncertainty surrounds fiscal policy and often standard point estimates are superseded by current day methodologies. Therefore, in order to answer the question how fiscal discipline is to be preserved without hampering economic efficiency, this thesis extends the existing paradigm for assessing the stringency of ...

This review aims to identify (1) sources of knowledge and (2) important themes of the ethical debate related to surgical alteration of facial features in East Asians. This article integrates narrative and systematic review methods. In March 2014, we searched databases including PubMed, Philosopher's Index, Web of Science, Sociological Abstracts, and Communication Abstracts using key terms "cosmetic surgery," "ethnic*," "ethics," "Asia*," and ...

Never anxious about artistic 'borrowing,' Tennessee Williams reputedly considered himself heir to this perennial practice as he lavishly 'littered' his own 'original' works with overt and covert references to literary luminaries from past and present (Debusscher 1997). And yet, it is safe to say that much of his cultural renown is due to his 'unique' artistic sensitivity. However, with one fellow artist this barefaced borrowing takes on a ...