Background: People with visual impairment or blindness (PWVIB) face many barriers related to employment. Although literature explores employers' concerns regarding the employment of PWVIB, stating the concern and developing a solution are different. Objectives: Employers' solutions to concerns...

In Germany, medical rehabilitation is provided to promote work ability and health in the case of chronic illness and to avoid early disability pensions. Studies have shown that employees with a history of migration are less likely to seek medical rehabilitation. The aim of this paper was to...

Purpose: This article focuses on the problem of deciding the annual investment that a company should allocate to the rehabilitation of its water distribution and sanitation networks. The objective is to find the investment amount necessary to maintain an adequate quality and sustainability of...

This study addresses the critical issue of Unaccounted-for-Gas (UFG) in Pakistan's gas sector, a significant challenge undermining operational efficiency and sustainability. With a comprehensive approach, the research introduces a tailored UFG Control strategy focused on "Network Visibility,"...

Rehabilitation technologies offer promising opportunities for interventions for patients with motor disabilities. However, their use in routine care remains limited due to their high cost and persistent doubts about their cost‑ effectiveness. Providing solid evidence of the economic efficiency...

Purpose The focus of this article is in documentation in substance abuse inpatient rehabilitation. Our article scrutinizes how workers give accounts of the documentation in the inpatient substance abuse rehabilitation unit and what kind of client information the workers record....

Background The influence of both individual factors and, in particular, the regional labour market on the return to work after medical rehabilitation is to be analyzed based on comprehensive administrative data from the German Pension Insurance and Employment Agencies. Method For rehabilitation...

Increasing evidence suggests that incarceration can improve the social reintegration of inmates in some circumstances. Yet, the mechanisms through which incarceration may favor rehabilitation remain largely unknown. This paper exploits variations in program availability in Quebec (Canada) to...

Arguments are made that, for a typical economy, with many goods and consumers, classical tatonnement dynamics results in a globally stable equilibrium. Since global stability implies uniqueness of equilibrium, these kinds of results complete the positive general equilibrium program classically...

This paper studies the impact of a national ecological rehabilitation program on sustainable development outcomes in rural China. I use the 2009-2010 consolidation of the Land Sloping Conversion Program (SLCP) as a quasi-natural experiment to study what happens when one of the world’s largest...

We construct a structural model of participation in vocational rehabilitation and labor market outcomes for people with vision impairments. There are multiple services to choose among, and each has different effects on employment and earnings. We estimate negative effects for most service types,...

Background The influence of both individual factors and, in particular, the regional labour market on the return to work after medical rehabilitation is to be analyzed based on comprehensive administrative data from the German Pension Insurance and Employment Agencies. Method For rehabilitation...

-- Chapter 1: Introduction. -- Chapter 2: Literature Review. -- Chapter 3: Introduction to Rate of Return, Modelling, and Estimation. -- Chapter 4: National Data: What Do We Learn?. -- Chapter 5: Analysis of VR Programs in Five States. -- Chapter 6: Simplifying the Model. -- Chapter 7:...

Purpose: Since the enactment of the long-term care insurance (LTCI) act in 2000, the number of LTCI users has increased annually. However, evidence regarding what is being carried out as rehabilitation treatment under LTCI is lacking. In this study, a scoping review was performed to bridge this...

Increased urbanisation poses serious challenges to adequate housing in the cities of the Global South. Many have focused on the issues of access to serviced land, housing finance, and public subsidy in augmenting the supply of low-income affordable housing while ignoring the criticality of...

Problem definition: The increase in demand for rehabilitation care has led to long admission delays. These delays not only affect patient outcomes, but also lead to bed blocking in acute care. Admission delays can be caused by capacity constraints or extra processing requirements....

Purpose: Since the enactment of the long-term care insurance (LTCI) act in 2000, the number of LTCI users has increased annually. However, evidence regarding what is being carried out as rehabilitation treatment under LTCI is lacking. In this study, a scoping review was performed to bridge this...

Increased urbanisation poses serious challenges to adequate housing in the cities of the Global South. Many have focused on the issues of access to serviced land, housing finance, and public subsidy in augmenting the supply of low-income affordable housing while ignoring the criticality of...

This paper investigates how micro-foundations influence institutional logics on the CBR project in Thailand. The result found CBR included the variety of institutional logics which are also influenced by norm, belief, and behavior from its stakeholders that comprises of the state, professional,...

Background: People with visual impairment or blindness (PWVIB) face many barriers related to employment. Although literature explores employers' concerns regarding the employment of PWVIB, stating the concern and developing a solution are different. Objectives: Employers' solutions to concerns...

Was ist Versorgungsforschung? -- Kontext als impliziter und expliziter Gegenstand der Versorgungsforschung -- Versorgungsforschung und die Bezüge zu Public Health -- Entwicklung und Stand der Versorgungsforschung in Deutschland und international -- Das Wissenschafts- und Ausbildungssystem und...

Die Innenwelt von Kleinen und mittleren Unternehmen (KMU) und die Außenwelt der in Deutschland fragmentierten und differenziert gegliederten Rehabilitationsträger sind durch eine deutliche soziale und kulturelle Divergenz gekennzeichnet. Diese Divergenz i ist, soweit es an...

Ostracism, or exclusion by peers, has been practiced since ancient times as a severe form of punishment against transgressors of laws or social norms. The purpose of this paper is to offer a comprehensive analysis on how ostracism affects behavior and the functioning of a social group. We...

The present study was an attempt to conduct a mangrove rehabilitation program, propose possible mangrove based income generating project and eventually create an eco-tourism destination.The researcher selected 100 respondents which composed of; 50 resident and fisher folks of Tibaguin Hagonoy...

Increasing evidence suggests that incarceration can improve inmates' social reintegration under certain circumstances. Yet, the mechanisms through which incarceration may lead to successful rehabilitation remain largely unknown. This paper finds that participation in social rehabilitation...