Hospitals face large and variable costs from treating indigent care patients. Two methods of "reinsuring" hospitals against these costs are providing these patients with insurance and directly providing hospitals with supplemental payments to cover the expected costs of treating the indigent....

Introduction -- Positioning strategies for branding services in BoPM -- Marketing mix strategies for service brands in BoPM in Africa -- Positioning strategies and positioning activities of upscale retailers in BoPM in Africa -- Social networks and relationships for positioning micro and small...

Based on 15 months of ethnographic research, this book aims to understand why low-income Brazilians have invested so much of their time and money in learning about social media. Juliano Spyer explores this question from a number of perspectives, including education, relationships, work and...

The housing crisis -- The breakdown of mortgage servicing & loss mitigation -- Zombie mortgages & abandoned properties -- The benefits & harms of intervention -- Rethinking home : housing post-crisis -- Foreclosure or a more sustainable mortgage? -- Picking up the pieces & revitalizing...

This book addresses the central challenge facing rich countries: how to promote growth and prosperity that is widely shared rather than concentrated at the top. It identifies structures and policies that are associated with limiting the rise in inequality and promoting income growth

The many faces of homelessness : a critical introduction / Carole Zufferey and Nilan Yu -- Homelessness and homeless policies in the context of the residual Japanese welfare state / Johannes Kiener and Toshio Mizuuchi -- Homelessness in China / Della Qiu and Carole Zufferey -- Living homeless in...

Fashion always had a deep impact on society and was appreciated and studied by many sociologists such like Malcolm Barnard, Georg Simmel, Herbert Blumer or even Thornstein Veblen. The will of differentiation and the desire of the individual to comply to a social norm are also illustrated...

Armut ist ein drängendes Problem in Deutschland, doch rituelle Empörung führt nicht zu politischem Handeln. Georg Cremer räumt mit einigen verbreiteten Irrtümern und Fehlinterpretationen auf und zeigt, wo die Probleme wirklich liegen. Er legt dar, wo der Sozialstaat sich selbst im Weg...

Cover -- Titel -- Zum Buch -- Über den Autor -- Impressum -- Inhalt -- 1. Warum dieses Buch? Vorwort -- 2. Was bedeutet Armut in Deutschland? -- Der Vergleich mit der Dritten Welt führt in die Irre -- Ohne Statistik geht es nicht: Was bedeuten Armut und Armutsrisiko in Deutschland? --...