CHE Discussion Paper 158 3 The provision of quantitative information has been given a key role in securing good performance in the new NHS. A new National Performance Framework has been proposed encompassing a number of dimensions of performance. Whilst this approach to managing the NHS is welcomed, it is essential to understand the strengths and limitations intrinsic to the use of performance ...

The purpose of this meta-analysis was to assess the association between risky sexual behaviour and level of education and economic status in male youth. Previous tests of the association of risky sexual behaviour with levels of education and economic status have yielded inconsistent results. Using data from 26 countries, from both within and outside Africa, we performed a meta-analysis with a s...

The purpose of the study was to evaluate the quality of morning nutrition of children in primary school, related to the residence environment and the family educational level. We included in our study 220 children in the age group 8-10, studying in urban and rural schools. They answered a 24-itemed questionnaire regarding their morning nutrition. Nutrition state, health state and school perform...

Von Neumann’s standard paradigm of a game in extensive form and Kolmogorov’s standard model of a stochastic process both rely on constructing a fixed state space large enough to include all possible future eventualities. This allows a typical single-person decision problem to be represented as a decision tree. Yet not all eventualities can be foreseen. Also, any practical decision model must li...

Real-world social and economic networks typically display a number of particular topological properties, such as a giant connected component, a broad degree distribution, the small-world property and the presence of communities of densely interconnected nodes. Several models, including ensembles of networks, also known in social science as Exponential Random Graphs, have been proposed with the ...

BACKGROUND Unhealthy behaviours often occur in combination. In this study the relationship between education and lifestyle, defined as a cluster of risk behaviours, has been analysed with the purpose to assess socio-economic changes in multiple risk behaviour over time. METHODS Cross-sectional data from the Belgian Health Interview Surveys 1997, 2001 and 2004 were analysed. This study is rest...

Communitarian philosophers understand morality as emerging in communities through the interaction between agents in practices. At first sight, communitarianism therefore seems to provide a suitable perspective for conceptualising morality in economics, since the economy might be regarded as a sequence of such practices in communities of business, households, and trading. But several well-known ...

A significant amount of empirical research has been conducted on the socio-economic (sociological, psychological, economic) aspects of information security such asthe phenomena of individuals who are willing to take security measures, but often do not. There is a growing body of research relating to individual behaviour and decision-making. To promote effective information security measures, th...

Online purchase behaviour among professionals: a socio-demographic perspective for Turkey Ibrahim Akman & Mohammad Rehan To cite this article: Ibrahim Akman & Mohammad Rehan (2014) Online purchase behaviour among professionals: a socio-demographic perspective for Turkey, Economic ResearchEkonomska Istraživanja, 27:1, 689-699, DOI: 10.1080/1331677X.2014.975921 To link to this article: http://dx....

The ratio of males to females in a population is known to influence the behaviour, life histories and demography of animals. A recent experimental study finds that sex ratio also affects human economic behaviour, and in a manner consistent with evolutionary theory.