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Inclusive digital financial services should welcome older populations and make them beneficiaries of the digital and financial revolution. To understand older adults' experience of using digital financial tools, we conducted an online survey of 268 older internet users aged 60 or above from urban areas of 14 Chinese provinces after China's nationwide COVID-19 lockdown in 2021. Our results revealed that older internet surfers were active in digital financial activities and engaged most with activities that were highly compatible with their lifestyles. Active users significantly differed from inactive users in sociodemographics, confirming that a digital divide related to social stratification exists among older internet users. Digital finance active users were also distinguished from inactive users' attitudes and perceptions toward digital finance. Logistic regression results indicated that perceived usefulness, access to proper devices for digital finance, risk perceptions, and perceived exclusion if not using technology were associated with their adoption of these advanced tools. Older adults reported the perceived inconvenience of in-person financial services during the lockdown. They also expressed a willingness to participate in relevant training if provided. The findings of this study could help aging-related practitioners to understand older adults' engagement in digital finance and guide policy and project design in the area of financial inclusion of the aging population.
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Background: This study aims to evaluate the mental health status of children, adolescents and their parents during the first year of COVID-19 pandemic in Belgium. Method(s): Analysis compared results before and during the second national lockdown, which started on November 2nd 2020. A cross-sectional online survey was conducted between May 2020 and April 2021. Result(s): Two hundred and eighteen adults and 273 children fully completed the survey. Almost one in five children (17.9%) presented moderate-to-severe scores of depression. Adolescents presented a higher level of depression than children (p = 0.007). The rate of moderate-to-severe depression scores (10.8% to 21%, p = 0.007) and internalized symptoms increased during the second lockdown (p < 0.001). Parents' depression (p < 0.001) and anxiety (p = 0.027) levels also increased during the second lockdown. Logistic regression showed that the use of psychotropic medication in parents and parents' depression scores were risk factors for children to have worse depression scores. Conclusion(s): The second lockdown appears to worsen the effects of the pandemic on children's and parents' mental health. There is a need to implement specific interventions targeting both children/adolescents and their parents to support them during lockdown periods and improve mental health outcomes.Copyright © 2022, The Author(s).
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The recent Covid-19 pandemic has created many challenges and barriers in healthcare, which includes the treatment and management of patients with type 2 diabetes (Robson & Hosseinzadeh, 2021). The purpose of this Evidence-Based Project (EBP) project is to evaluate the effectiveness of type 2 diabetes management through telehealth and answers the following PICOT question: In patients with diabetes type 2 who have difficulties with medical visit compliance (P), will the telehealth platform (I), compared to patient's previous visit HbA1c (C) improve the Hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) diagnostic marker (O) over a 12-week period(T)? An extensive literature search of five databases was performed, citation chasing, and a hand search yielded fourteen pieces of evidence ranging from level I to VI (Melnyk & Fineout-Overholt, 2019). The pieces of evidence selected for this project support the evidence that telehealth implementation is as effective as the "usual care" or in-person visits to treat type 2 diabetes. The John Hopkins Nursing Evidence-Based Practice (JHNEBP) model was selected. Patients with a HbA1c of greater than 6.7% have been asked to schedule two six-week telehealth visits. During the live video visit, a review of medications, and diabetes self-management education (DSME) will be conducted. Participants will be provided with education to promote lifestyle modifications. The visits will be conducted through an Electronic Medical Record (EMR) system that is Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) compliant. A paired t-Test will be used with the data collected from the pre-and post-HbA1c. Improve the management of type 2 diabetes with the incorporation of telemedicine in primary care. Research supports the need to further expand the use of telehealth in primary care, to improve patient outcomes and decrease co-morbidities related to type 2 diabetes.
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This paper aims to analyze the opportunities of fintech in the face of the economic crisis generated by COVID-19, which has had a great impact on companies and on the lives of people who have been forced to reinvent their work, consumption habits and their interaction with the environment in order to sustain themselves in an increasingly competitive market that affect their lifestyle. It is es-sential to bear in mind that the traditional system and the government have made efforts to main-tain the country's economic stability, but the results have not been very satisfactory. Therefore, a triangular-type exploratory research is carried out from the qualitative and quantitative aspects, through the application of information collection instruments, identifying financial, organizational and strategic of the SMEs in the city of Bogota, that reported their financial statements with cutoff to December 2021 to the Superintendency of Corporations. Finally, it is evident the opportunity for fintech to do disruptive technological innovation for the development of financial products through connectivity from mobile devices for personal use that allow monitoring, electronic commerce, transaction systems, financing, decision-making models and optimization of financial processes at a low cost, which makes it possible to open a range of multiple opportunities for SMEs that seek greater participation and competitiveness where they can offer their products and services in an efficient, agile, comfortable and reliable way.
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Pengurusan kewangan Islam merupakan satu aspek penting dalam institusi keluarga muslim. Pengurusannya yang patuh patuh syariah, tersusun dan sistematik harus dirancang dan dilakukan bagi mencapai matlamat kewangan lestari dalam institusi keluarga muslim. Kepentingan ini makin mendesak dikala seluruh manusia kini terpaksa berdepan dengan krisis kesihatan yang parah akibat pandemik Covid-19 yang melanda. Dilaporkan 60% rakyat Malaysia hanya mempunyai jumlah simpanan yang boleh bertahan selama 6 bulan sahaja jika berlaku kecemasan atau kehilangan pendapatan. Dan hanya 10.8% sahaja dalam kalangan masyarakat yang mampu bertahan jika berlaku situasi kecemasan terhadap ketua keluarga seperti kehilangan pekerjaan, hilang upaya atau kematian. Sedangkan pandemik Covid-19 yang sedang melanda dalam negara menuntut kepada persediaan kewangan keluarga yang sangat kukuh untuk berhadapan dengan suasana yang tidak dijangka semasa tempoh Perintah Kawalan Pergerakan (PKP) dan tempoh darurat (lockdown). Justeru itu, artikel ini bertujuan untuk membincangkan beberapa isu yang timbul kesan daripada salahurus kewangan dalam institusi keluarga muslim serta cadangan yang relevan untuk berhadapan dengan pandemik Covid-19 menurut perspektif pengurusan kewangan Islam. Metode kajian ini adalah berbentuk kajian kualitatif deskriptif, iaitu Kajian kepustakaan menerusi rujukan buku-buku, artikel jurnal, kertas persidangan dan kajian ilmiah. Rujukan ini merupakan data primer kepada kajian ini. Selain itu, maklumat daripada hasil temubual pakar yang sedia ada melalui program-program ilmiah juga dijadikan rujukan dalam data kajian ini. Kajian mendapati hanya Institusi keluarga yang mempunyai kekuatan pendapatan dan minimum perbelanjaan yang disokong oleh tadbirurus kewangan yang sistematik mengikut sistem pengurusan kewangan Islam mampu bertahan dan boleh berhadapan dengan situasi pandemik Covid-19. Islamic financial management is an important aspect of Muslim family institution. Its Shariah -compliant, organized and systematic management should be planned and practiced to achieve sustainable financial goals in Muslim family institutions. This interest is increasingly urgent when all people are now having to deal with a severe health crisis due to the covid-19 pandemic. It is reported that 60% of Malaysians have only 6 months of savings in the event of an emergency or loss of income. And only 10.8% in the community have an ability to survive in the event of an emergency situation for family heads such as loss of employment, disability or death. While the Covid-19 pandemic in the country is demanding a strong family financial preparation to deal with an unexpected atmosphere during the Movement Control Order (MCO) and the Lockdown period. Therefore, this article aims to discuss some of the issues that arise from financial misunderstandings in Muslim family institutions as well as relevant proposals to face Covid-19 pandemics according to Islamic financial management perspectives. The method of this study is in the form of descriptive qualitative studies, namely library studies through book reference, journal articles, conference papers and scientific studies. This reference is a primary data for this study. In addition, information from existing expert interviews through scientific programs is also referred to as the data of this study. Studies have found that only family institutions with income strength and minimum expenditure supported by systematic financial management according to the Islamic financial management system have survived and can face the Covid-19 pandemic situation.
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When the World Health Organization formally declared COVID-19 a global pandemic, health care and education institutions around the world changed forever. COVID-19 had a significant impact on the clinical supervision of radiographers through severe restrictions to their clinical placement and the necessary conversion to online education delivery.1 The past impacts of COVID-19 have led to current problems in radiography practice including a wide gap in students' theory to practice. In order to address these past impacts and champion future change to prevent similar events from occurring, an analysis of the literature was performed to assess how COVID-19 has adversely impacted the three domains of clinical supervision in radiography. Formative supervision was negatively impacted by COVID-19 as studies reported reduced skill acquisition and preparedness for workforce from not only reduced clinical hours, but also the competing demands on supervisors.2 The 'restorative' domain of supervision was adversely impacted by reports of increased mental health issues among radiography students due to stress, isolation and the financial burden of COVID-19.3 The last domain impacted was 'normative supervision' from the lack of mental and financial support for students reported in multiple comprehensive studies. These highlighted the gap in communication between students, supervisors and universities.4 This unresolved organisation systemic issue requires higher education institutions and tertiary hospitals to better collaborate on structured pathways to support students through future pandemics. To champion change, we must honour the past impacts of COVID-19 on supervision to encourage further research towards improved supervision practice and better prepare for similar future pandemics.
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Covid-19 is an unprecedented crisis that faces the majority of governments around the world. The pandemic has resulted in substantial changes to government work cultures, financial management, and the implementation of good governance. The paper has shown how these governments react to the crisis caused by Covid-19. We analyse strategy, policy, and financial management when facing Covid-19 and give a result that will contribute to the development of crisis governance field. In this article, we argue that the most successful action in response to the COVID-19 pandemic in high income, upper-middle income, and lower-middle income countries is guided by the implementation of good governance principles. Data used in this research was obtained from the World Health Organization and the World Bank. The results indicate that countries that have been able to manage the COVID-19 pandemic have good governance indicators, such as voice and accountability, political stability and absence of violence/terrorism, government effectiveness, regulatory quality, rule of law, and control of corruption.
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Background: The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in disruptions to health care services. Vulnerable populations, including people living with HIV (PLHIV), may have experienced unique challenges when accessing medical care. The objective of this study was to evaluate the impact of social disruptions on health care visits among Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study/Women's Interagency HIV Study Combined Cohort Study (MWCCS) participants. Method(s): A survey collecting data on missed health care visits and social disruptions (i.e., disruptions in employment, childcare, financial support, housing, and health insurance) during the pandemic was administered via telephone to MWCCS participants 1-3 times from March and September 2020. Logistic regression models adjusted for sociodemographics and HIV-status were used to test the association between social disruptions and three medical care interruption outcomes (i.e., missed healthcare appointment, interruption of mental health care, and interruption of substance use care). Result(s): Surveys (n=10,076) were conducted among 2238 PLHIV (61% women) and 1427 people living without HIV (PLWoH) (41% women). Overall, 42% of participants reported disruptions in health care with no significant difference by HIV status. Among participants receiving mental health care services and substance use treatment, 52% and 36% reported interruptions of care, respectively. Participants reporting >= 2 social disruptions were more likely to report missed health care appointments (adjusted odds ratio [aOR]: 1.81, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.54-2.13), and interruptions in mental health care [aOR: 2.42, 95%CI: 1.85-3.17) or substance use treatment (aOR: 1.97, 95%CI: 1.26-3.09), compared to those reporting no disruptions. Participants who were unemployed were more likely to miss health care appointments (aOR:1.46, 95% CI: 1.25-1.71) and report disruptions in mental health care (aOR: 2.02, 95% CI: 1.54-2.66) compared to those who were employed. PLHIV reporting >= 2 social disruptions were at increased risk for missed health care appointments (aOR 1.92, 95%CI: 1.56-2.36) and disruptions in mental health care (aOR: 2.54, 95%CI: 1.83-3.53 (Table 1). Conclusion(s): Social disruptions as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic have adversely impacted the receipt of health care among PLHIV and PLWoH, including the receipt of treatment for mental health and substance abuse. Providing childcare, financial support, housing, and health insurance may reduce disruptions in care and improve health outcomes.
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Background and Aims: The covid-19 pandemic has reversed years of progress in the fight to end tuberculosis. So, the discovery of new drugs as antituberculosis is very much needed. Our previous studies have shown that the extract of Centella asiatica is able to inhibit the growth of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in vitro and requires further research. The aims of this study is to prove the effect of Centella asiatica inhibit Mycobacterium tuberculosis in rat model tuberculosis. Method(s): The protocol in this study was approved by the veterinary ethics committee of Airlangga University. The rat tuberculosis model was induced by intrathecal injection of a suspension of Mycobacterium tuberculosis strain H37 Rv. Twenty-eight tuberculosis rat were randomly divided into four groups. Groups 1,2, and 3 were treated with ethanol extract of Centella asiatica at 375 mg/kgBW, 750 mg/kgBW and 1500 mg/kgBW, and the fourth group was the control group. Centella asiatica extract is administered orally via an intragastric feeding tube for two weeks, once daily At the end of the experimental period, rats were sacrificed by cervical decapitation. The left lung tissue was taken aseptically and cultured on Middlebrook 7H10. Result(s): The results showed that there was no bacterial growth on the culture media in the group that received Centella asiatica extract at a dose of 750 and 1500 mg/kg BW. Conclusion(s): The conclusion in this study, that Centella asiatica extract inhibit the growth of Mycobacterium tuberculosis at doses of 750 and 1500 mg/kg BW. We thank the Directorate of Research and Community Services, the Directorate General of Higher Education, and Ministry of Education and Culture in Indonesia for the financial supportCopyright © 2023 The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Inc.
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[...]in 1996, with campus president support, an umbrella safety council was created that includes representation of both OSH and non-OSH activities. Over time, the non-OSH representation has expanded, incorporating representatives from areas such as human resources, building facilities management, employee assistance and wellness, mental health, environmental waste management, campus security and disaster preparedness. With the safety councils support, the wellness and employee assistance programs conducted focus group discussions and determined a major cause of the observed stress was rooted in personal financial management challenges. With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, the safety council members became concerned about the overall well-being of the university community and, as such, assisted in the conduct of two waves of a campus-wide survey measuring aspects such as mental health, well-being concerns about COVID-19, personal finance worries and accessing reliable sources of information.
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The present study made use of the sector balance sheets of "Q-861 Hospital Services Sub-Sector” for the years 2015–2020, which was recently published by the Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey (TCMB), which maintains the largest financial data on the hospital services sub-sector. The 6-year time period above was selected for the purposes of the study on the grounds that TCMB published the most up-to-date sector balance sheets for the said timeframe. The present study also aimed to investigate the financial structure of the hospitals operating in this sector in Turkey prior to the COVID-19 pandemic across the world. In general, ratio analysis, parametric, and non-parametric methods are used to measure the performance levels of hospital enterprises. The present study employed ratio analysis, a financial analysis method to assess the performance levels thereof. The financial performance of the sector was assessed in the study using 15 criteria, including liquidity, financial, activity, and profitability ratios. © 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.
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Purpose - The study aims to explore a retrospective overview of the Journal of Public Budgeting, Accounting and Financial Management, a prestigious international journal in the discipline. It also analyses the bibliometric information of its publications between 2011 and 2021 in terms of authors, countries, documents, themes, topics and sources.Design/methodology/approach - The performance analysis and science mapping were conducted using the data from Scopus between 2011 and 2021. The bibliometric information of 301 publications was visualised through the analysis types, such as co-authorship, co-citation and bibliographic coupling, through the VOSviewer software programme.Findings - The main finding is that the journal has recently improved in several areas (e.g. its productivity and visibility, citations, index scores and international collaborations). Although financial aspects such as accounting and accountability, financial management and public budgeting maintained their importance during the analysing period, some other features were revealed as new research themes. However, there are some research gaps regarding sustainable development goals, climate change and other matters, and the solutions for them through public fiscal policies.Research limitations/implications - The analyses are primarily backwards oriented by their very nature. Although they were excellent at portraying the past, the findings provided limited information about subjects that would be hot topics in future. The study has some limitations. The information on publications was collected from the Scopus database. However, bibliometric analyses were conducted from 2011 to 2021 as its data on Scopus did not cover before 2011. Second, the data are dynamic over time and may contain various changes in the future. Therefore, the bibliometric analysis may be repeated by including new studies of JPBAFM in the following years.Social implications - A performance analysing that the editorial team could benefit from in order to monitor the productivity of JPBAFM, one of the popular and favoured journals in the discipline, was conducted in this paper. The editorial team may also find ideas for the intellectual development of the journal as a result of mapping the performance of the publications.Originality/value - The bibliographic analysis of the Journal of Public Budgeting, Accounting and Financial Management has yet to be conducted. The study presents comprehensive findings on the performance and bibliometric analysis of the journal to guide authors and readers.
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This paper aims to analyze the opportunities of fintech in the face of the economic crisis generated by COVID-19, which has had a great impact on companies and on the lives of people who have been forced to reinvent their work, consumption habits and their interaction with the environment in order to sustain themselves in an increasingly competitive market that affect their lifestyle. It is es-sential to bear in mind that the traditional system and the government have made efforts to main-tain the country's economic stability, but the results have not been very satisfactory. Therefore, a triangular-type exploratory research is carried out from the qualitative and quantitative aspects, through the application of information collection instruments, identifying financial, organizational and strategic of the SMEs in the city of Bogota, that reported their financial statements with cutoff to December 2021 to the Superintendency of Corporations. Finally, it is evident the opportunity for fintech to do disruptive technological innovation for the development of financial products through connectivity from mobile devices for personal use that allow monitoring, electronic commerce, transaction systems, financing, decision-making models and optimization of financial processes at a low cost, which makes it possible to open a range of multiple opportunities for SMEs that seek greater participation and competitiveness where they can offer their products and services in an efficient, agile, comfortable and reliable way.
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Objectives: The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the need for sustainable and resilient healthcare systems to protect population health. This requires measuring the relative progress of health systems towards becoming more sustainable and resilient. In this research, we design, construct and estimate a country-level healthcare system sustainability and resilience index (HSSRI) that reflects and combines the two dimensions. Method(s): The HSSRI aims to summarise the performance of a health system in the different domains contributing to its sustainability and resilience. These domains are: i) health system governance, ii) health system financing, iii) health system workforce, iv) medicines and technologies, v) health service delivery, vi) population health and social determinants, and vii) environmental sustainability. As part of our analyses, we conduct a rapid evidence assessment to identify indicators reflecting the domains included in the sustainability and resilience dimensions. We assess the domain indicators' suitability by the quantity and quality of the literature supporting their inclusion. The variables in each indicator are extracted from publicly available data sources, such as the OECD, World Bank, and others. The period covered is from 2000 to 2020. Weighted means of the indicators are used to construct the domains' indices in each dimension. We apply a geometric mean to combine the domain indices into one final index. Result(s): The HSSRI is piloted using data from five high-income countries, providing a credible instrument for measuring and reporting healthcare system sustainability and resilience. The results enable policy-makers and stakeholders to observe how different domains of sustainability and resilience have evolved across countries and time. Conclusion(s): The HSSRI will facilitate better understanding and monitoring of the healthcare system's relative weaknesses and strengths, and empower policy-makers to design interventions that improve its resilience and sustainability.Copyright © 2022
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This study seeks to explore the effects of the COVID-19 crisis on the business resilience of SMEs in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) as an emerging economy, and specifically in Dubai, a thriving global business hub. Our objective is to examine the challenges experienced by small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in this region and how business leaders respond to the unprecedented crisis to stay afloat. We obtained rich descriptions from 26 respondents comprising SME owners and managers, using semi-structured interviews and a reflective process model to discern different aspects of business volatility, leadership roles, and financial management. All respondents endured the crisis periods by implementing numerous changes and initiatives to explore new norms of working, uncharted business territories, fulfill current projects, and develop innovative solutions and diversification in their businesses. Many have turned challenges into opportunities, progressing successfully through the three challenging periods of crisis using diverse approaches to stay resilient. The paper concludes with a discussion of theoretical and practical implications and future research directions.
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OBJECTIVE To explore the elasticity of the primary health care (PHC) private offices in Greece during the pandemic crisis, and to identify the features that make an independent private practice resilient to unfavorable situations. METHOD A survey of clinical and economic activities was conducted among general practitioners, internists and pediatricians working in private practice in Thessaloniki. The participants were questioned about their practice during the first (March to May 2020) and second (October to December 2020) phases of the COVID-19 pandemic. Statistical analysis of the data was carried out. RESULTS A significant drop in visits was reported during the pandemic, while telemedicine consultations increased. Profits were reduced, with variation depending on the size of the office and the specialty of the doctor. Most physicians received some sort of financial aid from the government, but overall, the consequences of the pandemic were not catastrophic for their private practice. CONCLUSIONS PHC private offices in Thessaloniki survived the difficulties caused by the pandemic, despite a loss in income. The private practitioners adjusted to the new policies that were implemented during this health crisis.Copyright © Athens Medical Society.
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The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and the Russian–Ukrainian war have had a significant impact on economies around the world, with pivotal implications for the activities of companies. The issue of corporate financial literacy has been within our scope of interest for a matter of years now, and this study aims at re-enforcing our previous overall theoretical and literacy-based analysis from a methodological approach. We use our own previous databases to explore and analyze the importance of corporate financial literacy, taking into account the economic factors inside and outside the organization that affect the businesses. For this, a confirmative factor analysis (CFA) model has been created. The article aims at two things with this. On the one hand, we intend to introduce the wider scope of the fit tests applicable in the CFA, thus giving a direction to other authors. It also allows for adequate verification for their models, while at the same time conducting the fit test for our corporate financial literacy model as well as a valid model framework suitable for making measurements and deductions. With the resulting model, this paper aims to examine the corporate financial literacy, the current economic challenges, and the issues faced by managers during crises. In addition to all this, with our article, we also want to make some contribution to the methodology of empirical data analysis: in the article we collect the fit tests that can be used to validate confirmatory factor models, the way they are determined, and most importantly, we try to sort out the literature approaches to the acceptable values of these tests, giving the reader a kind of guide and a reference base. The results of the research identify response measures that can contribute to increasing companies' resilience based on the principles of financial awareness.