China has achieved great results through hard working in prevention and control of the disease and has issued guidelines in the prevention and control of the novel coronavirus pneumonia epidemic according to the epidemic risk level. The prevention and control strategies have been used for...

Purpose The main purpose of our study is to investigate the impact of daily leader humor behaviors on healthcare workers’ daily psychological state and behavioral outcomes. Design/methodology/approach Based on the conservation of resources (COR) theory, this study proposes that daily leader...

Earlier work (Oster, 2005) has argued, based on existing medical literature and analysis of cross country data and vaccination programs, that parents who are carriers of hepatitis B have a higher offspring sex ratio (more boys) than non-carrier parents. Further, since a number of Asian...

Despite growing evidence of gender disparities in healthcare utilization and health outcomes, there is a lack of understanding of what may drive such differences. We present novel evidence on the impact of physician-patient gender match on healthcare quality using the standardized patients (SPs)...