Published in Comparative Migration Studies
This introduction to the special issue provides a critical state-of-the-art of the literature on second-generation migrants which has hitherto subsumed the case of the children of refugees. It highlights the theoretical and methodological orientations taken by the literature and examines the main findings on the second generation’s social, educatio...
Background: Health Technology Assessment (HTA) is a key component to support evidence-based decision-making and has been established in many countries, mainly for the assessment of drugs. There is a considerable need to systematise structures, processes and methods for HTA of medical devices (MD), because the assessment of MD can present other chal...
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Serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D) has been largely associated with latitude and sunshine exposure across several regions. According to previous results, 25(OH)D concentrations are, on average, relatively low in countries with abundant sunshine, including those of the Middle East and North Africa region, as well as lower-latitude Europe. The stand...
views considerably differ regarding the economic and environmental dimensions of sustainability. These differences relate to the way the SFSCs were organised and to some degrees to regional differences attributed to the significance of SFSC in different parts of Europe. The article concludes that the spatial heterogeneity of SFSCs, including supply...
Ambient air pollution is a long-standing and significant public health issue. The aim of this review is to systematically examine the peer-reviewed evidence on social inequalities and ambient air pollution in the World Health Organization European Region. Articles published between 2010 and 2017 were analyzed in the review. In total 31 articles wer...
Climate change plays an important role in shaping ecological stability of landscape systems. Increasing weather fluctuations such as droughts threaten the ecological stability of natural and anthropogenic landscapes. Uncertainty exists regarding the validity of traditional landscape assessment schemes under climate change. This commentary debates t...
In this manuscript, we investigate the adoption of blockchain for over-the-counter (OTC) electricity wholesale trading under the EU regulatory framework. Our analysis of the core legislation reveals six potential issues: (1) data immutability-related error correction, (2) personal data protection and immutability, (3) access to different data layer...
EC/H2020/634288/EU/Sustainable intEgrated care modeLs for multi-morbidity: delivery, FInancing and performancE/SELFIE
out-of-pocket payments on health as a percentage of total health expenditure, has been dominated by Central Asian republics for most of the period, although, for the period 2010 to 2014, the latter have tended to converge with those of CIS countries. Western EU15 nations have shown a serious growth of health expenditure far exceeding their pace of ...
