Review
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Laura McLean, Stephanie T. Ros, Calder Hollond, Jordan Stofan, Gwendolyn P. Quinn
Summary: This review analyzes the experiences of patients and clinicians with regards to international cross border reproductive care (CBRC) for the purpose of conception. Patients frequently choose CBRC for financial and legal reasons, while providers have concerns for the patient's safety.
PATIENT EDUCATION AND COUNSELING
(2022)
Article
Obstetrics & Gynecology
Sigal Klipstein, Ricardo Azziz, Katherine Cameron, Susan Crockin, Ruth Farrell, Catherine Hammack-Aviran, Elizabeth Gins-burg, Mandy Katz-Jaffe, Jennifer Kawwass, Catherine Racowsky, Robert Rebar, Mary Sam-plaski, David Shalowitz, Chevis Shannon, Sean Tipton, Lynn Westphal, Julianne Zweifel
Summary: Cross-border reproductive care is a global phenomenon that raises questions about the reasons behind patients seeking treatment abroad, the potential consequences, and the responsibilities of healthcare providers in advising and treating these patients.
FERTILITY AND STERILITY
(2022)
Article
Management
Dallas J. Elgin, David P. Carter, Anthony M. Starke
Summary: Despite the importance of social equity, there is a need to understand how public services may contribute to or sustain social inequities. This study examines the impact of administrative centralization and privatization on disparities between Black and White children in the U.S. foster care system. The findings show that centralized systems and higher degrees of privatization tend to narrow the outcome gap, with implications for social equity theory and practice.
PUBLIC MANAGEMENT REVIEW
(2023)
Article
Business, Finance
Frank Obenpong Kwabi, Agyenim Boateng, Chizindu Wonu, Charles Kariuki, Anna Du
Summary: Political uncertainty has a negative impact on international equity allocations, especially in election years. However, the interaction between political uncertainty and institutional quality has a positive effect on international equity portfolio flow. Home bias in equity ownership is negative and significant, but its interaction with political uncertainty is not significant.
INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF FINANCIAL ANALYSIS
(2023)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Orna Tal, Royi Barnea, Aviad Tur-Sinai
Summary: This study aims to expose the attitudes of junior medical managers towards patient-centeredness and compare the views of majority and minority subpopulations in Israel. The findings show that while most junior medical managers believe patients want to be more involved in medical decisions, Arabic speakers tend to rely on doctors' recommendations while Hebrew speakers wish to lead the decisions themselves.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR EQUITY IN HEALTH
(2023)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Samrawit Mihret Fetene, Tsegaye Gebremedhin Haile
Summary: Providing adequate and equal access health care is a key goal towards universal health coverage, but women continue to confront considerable inequities in accessing healthcare, particularly in the emerging regions of Ethiopia. A significant proportion of women of reproductive age in emerging regions of Ethiopia face challenges in accessing healthcare, which places the country far from achieving its UHC targets. The government should develop strategies to improve women's education, household wealth status, and occupational opportunities which would help to alleviate the barriers hindering healthcare access for women residing in emerging regions of Ethiopia.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2023)
Article
Health Care Sciences & Services
Roberta Perna, Gibran Cruz-Martinez, Francisco Javier Moreno Fuentes
Summary: This study shifts the focus from the drivers of international patient mobility to the ones of policy-making on patient mobility within national borders in Spain. It analyzes over fifty policy arrangements adopted between Spanish Regions from 2000 to 2020. The findings indicate that geographical/historical, economic, and political factors are key to understanding the development of cross-border healthcare agreements and potential conflicts.
Article
Health Care Sciences & Services
Mu'taman Jarrar, Mohammad Al-Bsheish, Badr K. Aldhmadi, Waleed Albaker, Ahmed Meri, Mohammed Dauwed, Mohd Sobri Minai
Summary: The study revealed that person-centeredness plays a mediating role in the effects of nurse work environment dimensions on quality and patient safety. Medical and surgical nurses working in a healthy environment exhibited high levels of person-centeredness, which positively impacted reported outcomes. Enhancing both nurse work environment and person-centeredness levels could improve nursing care and prevent patient harm.
Article
Family Studies
Cynthia Burnson, Sarah Covington, Bertha Arvizo, Jun Qiao, Elizabeth Harris
Summary: Parent support groups, such as Parents Anonymous, aim to improve parenting skills, social connections, and resiliency. Research shows that participation in Parents Anonymous may have a positive, long-term impact on improving child safety among parents involved in the child welfare system.
CHILDREN AND YOUTH SERVICES REVIEW
(2021)
Article
Business, Finance
Guglielmo Maria Caporale, Faek Menla Ali, Fabio Spagnolo, Nicola Spagnolo
Summary: This paper investigates the dynamic linkages between portfolio flows and various news media indices. The empirical results show the importance of news variables as determinants of cross-border portfolio flows, with US and worldwide news playing a leading role in driving bond inflows into and outflows from the US.
JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL MONEY AND FINANCE
(2022)
Article
Psychiatry
Nicolette Joh-Carnella, Eliza Livingston, Miya Kagan-Cassidy, Ashley Vandermorris, Jennifer N. Smith, Daniel M. Lindberg, Barbara Fallon
Summary: Accurately identifying and investigating child maltreatment is important for children's health and development. Research found a lack of communication between healthcare providers and child welfare workers. Future research should involve both groups to find sustainable solutions for increased collaboration.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHIATRY
(2023)
Article
Business, Finance
Chen Liu, Lynnette Purda, Hui Zhu
Summary: The study explores how differences in countries' formal and informal institutions affect cross-border leveraged buyout transactions, with evidence suggesting that these differences may influence private equity investors to opt for syndicate deals instead of individual transactions. Cultural differences between PE firms and target nations are found to play a significant role in the choice to enter deals via multinational syndicates, leading to enhanced familiarity and more successful outcomes with less negotiation time compared to single-PE-led transactions.
FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
(2021)
Article
Business, Finance
Jiangze Bian, Kalok Chan, Bing Han, Donghui Shi
Summary: This paper examines the effects of bi-directional cross-border equity flows on stock returns, volatility, and valuation differential using the Stock-Connect program in China. The study finds that net purchases by southbound and northbound investors predict the returns of connected stocks in Hong Kong and Shanghai, respectively. However, the effects on stock volatility are opposite for southbound and northbound equity flows, with a positive relationship between southbound flow volume and volatility in Hong Kong and a negative relationship for northbound flow volume in Shanghai. The study also reveals that a higher price premium of A shares over H shares leads to increased southbound net purchases and a decrease in the AH share price premium, indicating stock market integration and a decrease in valuation differential.
JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL MARKETS INSTITUTIONS & MONEY
(2023)
Article
Family Studies
Daniel Hyung Jik Lee, Christina Huerta, Elizabeth M. Z. Farmer
Summary: Kinship care is seen as a way to mitigate risks in traditional foster care and keep youth connected to extended family. Kinship Navigation programs show promise in increasing rates of Permanent Legal Custodianship and reducing disparities between African American and White youth, potentially leading to positive outcomes.
CHILDREN AND YOUTH SERVICES REVIEW
(2021)
Article
Management
Baozhuang Niu, Lingyun Chen, Jingmai Wang
Summary: This paper investigates the impact of tariffs on cross-border e-commerce. The results show that tariff types affect the sales strategies, profits, and government utility of e-tailers. It is also found that quality updates can distort prices and sales quantities, thereby altering profitability performances. In addition, the government can improve policy effectiveness by adjusting tariff types.
OMEGA-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT SCIENCE
(2022)
Review
Obstetrics & Gynecology
Vincent Couture, Stephane Delisle, Alexis Mercier, Guido Pennings
Summary: This review highlights the interdisciplinary nature of research on Advanced Paternal Age (APA), focusing on the biological, medical, social, public health, psychological, ethical, and regulatory aspects. The field of APA is still developing, with promising avenues of research identified such as including the perspective of older fathers in the research agenda.
HUMAN REPRODUCTION UPDATE
(2021)
Editorial Material
Obstetrics & Gynecology
Guido Pennings
FERTILITY AND STERILITY
(2021)
Editorial Material
Ethics
Guido Pennings
Summary: Postmortem sperm donation involves low sperm quality and burdensome in vitro fertilisation, leading to the acceptance of more living donors. To expand the donor pool, a better alternative would be men who have stored sperm for self-use but no longer intend to use it.
JOURNAL OF MEDICAL ETHICS
(2022)
Article
Obstetrics & Gynecology
Guido Pennings
Summary: Research shows that the primary reason for women to consider elective egg freezing is the lack of a partner, particularly for highly educated women. The reversed gender gap in education is identified as the main cause of the 'lack of partner' issue for highly educated women, suggesting the need for policy measures to address this problem.
REPRODUCTIVE BIOMEDICINE ONLINE
(2021)
Article
Obstetrics & Gynecology
Guido Pennings
Summary: This article discusses the comparison between embryo donation and double donation, emphasizing the importance of considering the perspective of the recipients and presenting additional arguments to balance the two methods.
HUMAN REPRODUCTION
(2022)
Article
Genetics & Heredity
Guido Pennings
Summary: This paper argues that enucleated oocyte donation (EOD) should first be used for treating infertility caused by poor oocyte quality or poor embryonic development before being used for reducing the risk of mitochondrial disorders. The main concern for offspring, the risk of pathological mtDNA transfer, does not exist in infertility cases. Therefore, the application of EOD for treating infertility should be conducted in a clinical research setting to gather more evidence on its efficacy and safety.
JOURNAL OF ASSISTED REPRODUCTION AND GENETICS
(2022)
Article
Obstetrics & Gynecology
Guido Pennings
Summary: This article discusses the introduction of sperm sharing in UK clinics, which aims to increase the donor pool and provide access to IVF treatment for less affluent patients. By comparing sperm sharing with oocyte sharing, the moral acceptability of the practice is examined. It is found that sperm sharers have fewer rights compared to regular sperm donors. The article then explores alternative procedures to achieve the goals of sharing schemes, such as providing cheaper IVF protocols or reducing the cost of IVF cycles to make them more accessible for less affluent individuals.
HUMAN REPRODUCTION
(2022)
Article
Obstetrics & Gynecology
Allan A. Pacey, Guido Pennings, Edgar Mocanu, Janne Rothmar, Anja Pinborg, Stine Willum Adrian, Corey Burke, Anne-Bine Skytte
Summary: More applicants are accepted as donors in Denmark than in the USA, and those who choose ID release are more frequently accepted than those who do not.
HUMAN REPRODUCTION
(2023)
Article
Ethics
Guido Pennings
Summary: Some countries have age limits for donor offspring to access certain information after abolishing donor anonymity. In the UK and the Netherlands, there is a debate on whether to lower or abolish these age limits. This article presents arguments against lowering the age limits as a general rule, questioning the impact on the well-being of donor children, the isolation of the child from their family, and the contradiction with the practice of gamete donation.
JOURNAL OF MEDICAL ETHICS
(2023)
Editorial Material
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Guido Pennings
Article
Obstetrics & Gynecology
Guido Pennings
Summary: Many people hope that the unused and unwanted eggs frozen by women for self-use could be used to alleviate the shortage of donor eggs. However, practical and ethical issues may hinder this hope. This paper discusses the reimbursement of costs for elective egg freezers who want to donate their eggs and argues for a partial reimbursement for collection expenses.
REPRODUCTIVE BIOMEDICINE ONLINE
(2023)
Article
Ethics
Steven R. Piek, Guido Pennings, Veerle Provoost
Summary: This article discusses the ethical legitimacy of using age as a basis for policies and legislation in reproductive healthcare. It proposes a framework for determining exclusion criteria and emphasizes that age should not be given special status as it is just one of many predicting variables.
THEORETICAL MEDICINE AND BIOETHICS
(2023)
Review
Obstetrics & Gynecology
Guido Pennings
Summary: In the past decade, an unregulated system of sperm donation has developed alongside formal fertility clinics and sperm banks. This paper presents a SWOT analysis of this new development. The informal system's main strength is the demedicalization of sperm donation, increasing women's reproductive autonomy. The main weakness is the potential for abuse and morally questionable behavior by donors. However, many of the reported disadvantages, such as no ability to limit offspring or genetic testing, also exist in the formal system.
REPRODUCTIVE BIOMEDICINE ONLINE
(2023)
Letter
Obstetrics & Gynecology
Guido Pennings
HUMAN REPRODUCTION OPEN
(2022)
Article
Ethics
Andrea Martani, Eva De Clercq, Christian De Geyter, Guido Pennings, Tenzin Wangmo, Bernice Simone Elger
Summary: The debate over whether there should be restrictions for access to Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ART) is ongoing. One controversial topic is the use of parental age as a criterion to limit access to ART. This article explores three conceptions of age - chronological, biological, and social-cultural - and their implications for regulating ART access. It proposes a template for defining legal age limits based on a refined understanding of these conceptions and addresses potential objections.
JOURNAL OF LAW AND THE BIOSCIENCES
(2022)
