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A Brief Survey on Six Basic and Reduced eHealth Indicators in Seven Countries in 2017
(Georg Thieme Verlag KGSaksa, 2018)Background Holistic, ubiquitous support of patient-centered health care (eHealth) at all health care institutions and in patients' homes through information processing is increasingly supplementing institution-centered ... -
A comparison of regret-based and utility-based discrete choice modelling - an empirical illustration with hospital bed choice
(Informa UK Limited, 2018)There is some concern that the unobserved preference heterogeneity in random utility maximization theory-based discrete choice experiment modelling is an important source of error variability. The randomness in utility is ... -
A Synthesis of Students' Theses in the Accredited HHSI Master's Programme
(IOS Press, 2018)Education in Health Informatics (HI) has been a key priority to guarantee knowledge and skills for professionals working in healthcare settings. One of the early academic models to teach HI are the recommendations provided ... -
A treatise for energy law
(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2018)It is now over 20 years since the seminal paper on energy law as a discipline was published. The aim of this article is to review what currently constitutes energy law after this 20-year hiatus. There are two main ambitions ... -
Accessibility in the provinces of Finland
(Geographical society of FinlandFI, 1981)Relative, mean and integral accessibility in the existing provinces of Finland and in the proposed new provinces was studied applying graph theory, through evaluating the shapes of the provinces by reference to polygonal ... -
Administering EU development policy: between global commitments and vague accountability structures
(European Papers, 2017)The EU Treaties give voice to the strong global role that the EU asserts and illustrate how there would not seem to be many problems of a global scale that the EU would not like to contribute to solving. Managing development ... -
Ambivalence in Later-Life Family Networks: Beyond Intergenerational Dyads
(Wiley, 2018)In later life, changing conditions related to health, partnership, and economic status may trigger not only support but also conflict and ambivalence, with the consequent renegotiation of family ties. The aim of this study ... -
An examination of strategic orientation profiles of low- and high-performing international SMEs
(Australian & new zealand marketing academy conference, 2015-11-30)Strategic orientations are believed to be associated with the international performance of SMEs, but empirical evidence on the subject is scarce. Addressing this research gap, the present study examines whether low- and ... -
Anticipatory Orientation in Temporary Employment and Employee Performance: A Qualitative Exploratory Study
(Stockholm University Press, 2017)The aim of this qualitative inquiry is to offer novel insights on the individual and organisational consequences of temporary work, especially in relation to performance. This study examines how fixed-term employees engage, ... -
Approaching Multifunctionality by a 'Normative View': Finnish Farmers' Visions on Contemporary Agriculture
(De Gruyter Open, 2016)Productivity alone is not the most important defining character of contemporary agriculture. On the grounds of the dominant models of market liberalization and multifunctionality, farmers have been urged to take new roles ... -
Arctic climate governance via EU law on black carbon?
(WileyAlankomaat, 2018)International cooperation, environmental protection and climate change are the key elements of the European Union's (EU) Arctic policy. The EU's interest in the Arctic has increased gradually over the last decade, and the ... -
Assessing Impacts of Wood Utilisation Scenarios for a Lithuanian Bioeconomy: Impacts on Carbon in Forests and Harvested Wood Products and on the Socio-Economic Performance of the Forest-Based Sector
(MDPI AG, 2017)Climate change and transition towards a bioeconomy are seen as both challenges and opportunities for the forest-based sector in Europe. Transition towards a bioeconomy will in most cases rely on intensified use of renewable ... -
Assessing the effects of price regulation and freedom of choice on quality: evidence from the physiotherapy market
(Springer Nature, 2017)In health care, many aspects of the delivery of services are subject to regulation. Often the purpose of the regulated health care system is to encourage providers to keep costs down without skimping on quality. The purpose ... -
Assessment and optimization of economic restructuring in a small peripheral region
(Geographical society of Finland, 1990)An evaluation model is presented which is suitable for planning methods related to the construction of regional economic scenarios. The model is constructed for assessment and optimization the regional economic structure ... -
The association between self-perceived health status and satisfaction with healthcare services : evidence from Armenia
(2016)Background: Armenians very rarely seek healthcare services and, consequently experience more serious health conditions. With its ongoing reforms, Armenia is focusing on linking health system financing to the quality and ... -
Basal ice formation in snow cover in Northern Finland between 1948 and 2016
(IOP Publishing, 2018)Basal ice formation in the terrestrial snow cover is a common phenomenon in northern circumpolar areas, one having significant impacts on ecosystems, vegetation, animals and human activities. There is limited knowledge on ... -
Blood donors' preferences for blood donation for biomedical research
(WileyBritannia, 2018)BACKGROUND Increasing numbers of blood donors are recruited to participate in biomedical research. As blood services depend on voluntary donors, successful recruitment calls for a better understanding of donors' expectations ... -
Border politics in Central Europe: Hungary and the role of national scale and nation-building
(Institute of Geography and Spatial Organization, Polish Academy of Sciences, 2018)This essay focuses attention on aspects of border politics that give evidence of nation-building and national consolidation processes in Central Europe. In a normative, policy-oriented sense this is a question of borders ... -
Bridging the gap between ecosystem service indicators and ecosystem accounting in Finland
(Elsevier BV, 2018)In this paper, we examine how progress on ecosystem service indicators could contribute to ecosystem accounting within the scope of environmental-economic accounting in Finland. We propose an integration framework and ...
