Austria and the United States have very different healthcare systems with Austria following a social insurance model and the United States following an out of pocket model however;gross domestic product on healthcare expenditures. There is a current gap in literature on how the United States and Austrian healthcare systems comparatively impact patient outcomes, especially when considering the mediating effects of societal norms such as exercise and mental self-care habits. The information presented could benefit the United States healthcare system if they adopted Austria’s model, which expands access, and the Austrian healthcare system regulators could look to American standards of communication and care coordination to improve their healthcare system overall.
Crowdfunding is an increasingly prominent phenomenon in today's world. One of the selling points of crowdfunding is the ability of funders to give project input, often in the form of voting on features for a project they support. Whether or not this type of feature voting significantly affects the success of projects is an open question. This study examines that question using a large sample of projects from the prominent crowdfunding site Kickstarter. The results suggest that, although common, project feature voting does not significantly predict crowdfunded projects' success.
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