Abstract The article, through the case study of Chile, explores interconnections between archives, human rights and transitional justice. Chile represents a unique globally for early creation thousands records documenting violations committed under Pinochet’s 17-year dictatorship. In post-Pinochet archives have provided extremely important sources evidence that proven crucial in development jus...

The present study aims to examine long-term consequences of political repression during the Soviet occupation of Estonia. Psychopathological variables such as diagnoses of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and major depression as well as positive results -conceptualized as ‘posttraumatic growth‘ were assessed in this study. Assessment of factors related to onset and retention of PTSD symptom...

BACKGROUND Previous studies on informal patient payments have mostly focused on the magnitude and determinants of these payments while the attitudes of health care actors towards these payments are less well known. This study aims to reveal the attitudes of Hungarian health care consumers towards informal payments to provide a better understanding of this phenomenon. METHODS For the analysis,...

To measure economic profits generated by an insurance policy during its life time, we compare the terminal assets of the policy account with certain breakeven value. Policies with mutil-year loss payments and income tax payments are studied. The breakeven value of terminal assets is given in closed form, and shown to be an increasing function of the claims risk and the asset investment risk. Pr...