Governments and healthcare providers are moving to electronic health records (EHRs) to lower the cost of healthcare, improve patient care, and reduce medical errors. A critical issue in the transition to EHRs is the privacy, confidentiality, and security of the information stored. This issue has made some patients and healthcare providers reluctant to accept electronic records. To help motivate...

This paper discusses an analytical approach to explaining a nearly constant high job approval rating of president Clinton between January, 1998 and February, 1999. Despite all the controversy and massive information exposure to mostly unflattering news about Mr. Clinton; the public, in nearly all major opinion polls expressed their wish that Mr. Clinton be allowed to complete his second term in...

Enabling the public to understand scientific concepts and advances, and the issues they raise, is an increasingly important challenge for scientists and politicians alike. public opinion—received via polls and elections—can influence scientific policy-making, and hence affect the funding and even the nature or focus of research itself. the fierce dispute over genetically modified crops in Europ...

METHODS Students attending five different types of high schools in central Elazig (a city in Turkey) during the 2009-2010 school year constitute the study population. One class was randomly selected from each high school. Out of 650 students, 640 participated in the study. The data were evaluated by using the SPSS program; percentage, mean, and chi-square analyses were used. FINDINGS Of all t...

The aim of this article is to analyse the attitudes Poles towards war migrants from Ukraine in period after invasion troops Russian Federation February 2022. empirical base for considerations formed by opinion polls and visual data collected author – references Ukrainians space Wrocław registered on photographs. theoretical framework concept Znaniecki. This was used as a try answer question at ...

Environmental concerns often figure prominently in opinion polls. But do election outcomes actually affect the environment? I test the influence of the party in power on urban air pollution in 13 Canadian cities. The government’s political stripe is not reliably associated with positive or negative effects on air pollution. Provincial parties on both the right and the left are associated with e...

This event study uses economic forecasts and opinion polls to measure the response of expectations to election surprise. Use of forecast data complements older work on partisan cycles by allowing a tighter link between election and response thereby mitigating concerns of endogeneity and omitted variables. I find that forecasters respond swiftly and significantly to election surprise. I further ...

In this paper we describe a method for weighting surveys of a sub-sample of voters. We focus on the case of Latino voters. And we analyze data for three surveys: two opinion polls leading up to the 2004 presidential election, and the national exit poll from the 2004 election. We take advantage of much data when it is available, the large amount of data describing the demographics of Hispanic ci...

Congress hears more and from everyday citizens. How do modern Congressional offices use this information to represent their constituents? Drawing on original interviews a survey of staff, we explore how representation works in practice when new data tools, such as databases downscaled public opinion polls, are available. In contrast with established theories that focus responsiveness, show is t...