Around-the-clock medical coverage

Marrying workers' compensation and health insurance plans to reduce administrative workloads and get a firm grip on expenses. Can it work?     

HMOs and other health plans: coverage and employee premiums.

Ten years after the passage of the HMO Act, health maintenance organizations represent a small proportion of employee health plans; benefits are more comprehensive and worker premiums higher than for traditional insurance, but other variables make comparisons difficult.     

Impacts of news media coverage on Canadian medical crowdfunding campaigns

While donation-based crowdfunding for health-related purposes raises hundreds of millions of dollars yearly, most campaigns fail to meet their fundraising goals. Crowdfunding campaigners are advised to seek traditional news media coverage of their campaigns to increase donor interest and fundraising success. In this study, we seek to better understand what happens to donor behavior via donation-based crowdfunding campaigns after they receive news media coverage. While research has focused on the impact of social media sharing on donation-based crowdfunding, academic analyses of the impact of news media coverage is largely speculative. We searched the Newsstream and Factiva databases for Canadian news coverage of domestic donation-based health-related crowdfunding campaigns. This news coverage was paired with the crowdfunding campaign reported on in the story. Campaign text and daily fundraising totals and donor amounts were recorded for the 7 days before and after publication of the news article. The authors identified emergent patterns in this data around the amplification of personal information from the crowdfunding campaign to a wider audience and inclusion of new personal details. This process identified 17 relevant pairs of news stories and crowdfunding campaigns over a review period of just under 5 months in 2021–22. These campaigns raised a total of CAD$443,134 (median CAD$20,030) out of a total goal of CAD$772,500 (median CAD$40,000) or 57.4% of the requested funds. Median campaign donations and donor numbers increased for the 3 days following publication of the news article. Our exploratory analysis shows a relationship between crowdfunding campaigns that receive news media coverage and the numbers of donations and total amount donated shortly after this coverage. Campaigners may feel pressure to participate in news media coverage in order to reach their fundraising goals. Media coverage has implications for campaign recipient privacy and the equitable distribution of health-related funding. This exploratory analysis establishes the need for additional research on this topic.     

The family and medical leave act of 1993: Employee rights and responsibilities,employer rights and responsibilities

The Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) was signed into law on February 5, 1993 after approximately eight years of controversial discussion in Congress. The FMLA provides up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave for eligible employees for the birth or placement for adoption or foster care of a child, to care for a child, spouse, or parent with a serious health condition, or for the employee’s own serious health condition. The Act is intended to help individuals balance their home obligations with their work obligations. This article highlights both employee rights and responsibilities afforded by the FMLA and employer rights and responsibilities under the Act.     

Integrating expected coverage and local reliability for emergency medical services location problems

Daskin's MEXCLP model [Daskin M. A maximum expected covering location model: formulation, properties, and heuristic solution. Transportation Science 1983;17:48-70] was one of the first efforts to capture the stochastic nature of emergency medical services (EMS) location problems within a mixed-integer formulation. With their subsequent introduction of MALP, ReVelle and Hogan [The maximum availability location problem. Transportation Science 1989;23:192-200] offered two key advances, local vehicle busyness estimates and the α-reliability objective. While these constructs have influenced many subsequent EMS location models, they have been subjected to relatively little empirical analysis. To address this, we introduce the LR-MEXCLP, a hybrid model combining the local busyness estimates of MALP with the maximum coverage objective of MEXCLP. We then solve a series of problems with all three models and employ simulation to estimate aggregate service levels. We find that LR-MEXCLP leads to modest but consistent service gains over both MALP and MEXCLP. These results support the merits of local busyness estimates, but they also suggest that the α-reliability objective may be inappropriate when seeking to maximize aggregate system response capabilities. More generally, our research underscores the utility of (a) linking modeling assumptions and goals with real-world application contexts, and (b) employing simulation or other techniques to validate theoretical results.     

Procedures to determine optimum two-stage sampling plans by attributes

Summary In order to compare two sampling plans we use the minimax regret principle, i.e. the minimax principle applied to regret functions. It is shown that among all two-stage sampling plans there exists an optimum sampling plan which can be computed with the aid of a procedure presented in this paper; furthermore another procedure is described how to obtain an approximately optimum two-stage sampling plan in a more direct way. Finally only those two-stage sampling plans are regarded which satisfy an additional condition; among these sampling plans an optimum one exists and is to be determined, too.     

Learning by doing: Active employer sponsored retirement savings plan participation and household wealth accumulation

This paper investigates the impact of household exposure to employer pension plan features using the Health and Retirement Survey. We investigate whether exposure to active management (choice) or participation in plan-sponsored financial education seminars impacts household portfolio allocations and wealth. We consider interactions between pension design and investment patterns outside of workers’ pension plans, utilizing two parametric estimators: the random effects probit and the multivariate probit. We extend our results non-parametrically via propensity score matching. We find repeated evidence that both of the plan features improve asset allocations and financial outcomes for recent retirees, especially when used together.     

浅谈高职院校图书馆考证信息服务

通过分析新形式下出现的考证现象,文章针对职业教育的目的和特点,浅要论述了高职院校图书馆信息服务的新内容——考证信息服务,提出了考证信息的收集范围、收集措施,考证信息的管理以及怎样开发利用考证信息,强调了考证信息服务对高职院校图书馆建设的必要性和紧迫性。     

北京岳成律师事务所在六所大学同时设立奖教金奖学金

2003年是北京岳成律师事务所建所10周年。为回报社会,岳成所出资120万元,在北京大学、清华大学、中国人民大学、中国政法大学、吉林大学、黑龙江大学六所高校法学院设立“岳成律师事务所奖教金、奖学金”,每年奖励最优秀教师和最优秀学生各一名,奖金各一万元,为期十年。一个律师事务所同时在全国六所大学法学院设立奖教金、奖学金,在全国还是首例。此举旨在使重教勤学的风尚更加发扬光大,为祖国的法     

“十二五”时期北京市区县政府社会保障公共服务标准探讨

政府社会保障公共服务标准的制定和实施,有利于实现政府社会保障服务的规范化、透明化,开展政府社会保障服务的评估和比较,并促进社会保障服务的均等化。根据科学性、可比性、系统性、简洁性和可操作性等原则,本文选取了社会救助、社会保险、社会福利等方面的指标,构建了地方政府社会保障公共服务指标体系,并根据国际比较、国内比较和可及性等原则,对"十二五"时期北京市区县社会保障公共服务标准进行了初步探讨。     

Pursuing justice against the abuse of power by the rich through social media: A case study

ABSTRACT

The purpose of this case study is to compare and contrast two recent legal cases and to derive practical implications to promote social justice in terms of income inequality. This study focuses on exploring and analyzing two of the most recent legal cases of the abuse of power by the rich in order to identify the effects of social media on these types of cases. Despite the availability of many studies and findings about the tolerance level to income inequality, the following logic is more appropriate in applying and analyzing the two cases: If people don’t know, see, or experience the abuse of the rich or income inequality, they are more tolerant of the abuse and income inequality. Based on the analysis of the two cases, the article concludes that these two cases are not the usual air rage cases; they are more about the abuse of the rich and the punishment decided by the use of technology.     

Discovering medical quality of total hip arthroplasty by rough set classifier with imbalanced class

The incidence of THA (total hip arthroplasty) will rise with an aging population and improvements in surgery, a feasible alternative in health care can effectively increase medical quality. The reason of a hip joint replaced is to relieve severe arthritis pain that is limiting your activities. Hip joint replacement is usually done in people age 60 and older. Younger people who have a hip replaced may put extra stress on the artificial hip. This paper uses a serious data screening function by experts to reduce data dimension after data collection from the National Health Insurance database. The proposed model also adopts an imbalanced sampling method to solve class imbalance problem, and utilizes rough set theory to find out core attributes (selected 7 features). Based on the core attributes, the extracted rules can be comprehensive for the rules of medical quality. In verification, THA dataset is taken as case study; the performance of the proposed model is verified and compared with other data-mining methods under various criteria. Furthermore, the performance of the proposed model is identified as winning the listing methods, as well as using hybrid-sampling can increase the far true-positive rate (minority class). The results show that the proposed model is efficient; the performance is superior to the listing methods under the listing criteria. And the generated decision rules and core attributes could find more managerial implication. Moreover, the result can provide stakeholders with useful THA information to help make decision.     

MBA教育的服务提升与品牌经营——以上海财经大学MBA教育为例

国内外MBA教育发展的实践表明,以服务质量提升为基础的品牌化发展是我国MBA教育发展的一种趋势。上海财经大学商学院MBA教育主要通过从多渠道沟通、凸显课程特色、多种形式的师资开发和培养、职业发展帮助和参与MBA认证等各个方面,对学生接受教育服务过程的每个接触瞬间进行卓越的创新,取得良好的效果,比较成功地塑造自己MBA教育品牌。本文还建议各个高校应通过准确定位、提升品牌形象、品牌差异化等方式经营品牌,各自走出一条MBA教育发展特色之路。