The sharing economy is growing in the hotel industry very fast. The study is important for the hotel’s management - strategy formulation. The aim of this research is to evaluate the sharing economy effect on hotels in Lithuania. Correlation and regression analysis methods were used for achieving the aim. The study analyses if the sharing economy has caused any impact on accommodating tourists at hotels, hotels income from accommodation services, and room occupancy rate. Results reveal a positive relationship between the sharing economy and all investigated indicators of hotel activities, thus indicating that the hotel business is growing together with the sharing economy. The hotels' sector in Lithuania has continued to grow while more and more hosts and consumers joined the sharing economy. Results imply that the sharing economy is not a competitor for the Lithuanian hotels business as the sharing economy targets different tourist segment, moreover the market is capacious for both segments. Sharing economy in the accommodation sector – a niche with its own customer group. The research results are important for making correct decisions in the Lithuanian tourism industry as other researches in other countries show a negative impact on the sharing economy on the hotels' sector. The rapid growth of the sharing economy in Lithuania may oblige hotels to focus on the sharing economy and consider further actions.
This paper summarizes the arguments and counterarguments within the scientific discussion on the issue of quality of medical care. The main purpose of the research is to analyze the quality of medical care in dispensary №1 of municipal non-profit enterprise «Shostka city center of primary health care» and determine recommendations for its improvement in the context of «MEDSTAR» medical information system implementation. The research methods authors used in the article were systematic analysis, comparative research, and patients’ survey. As the information sources, the authors used internal documentation of the dispensary № 1 (data for September 2018) and its electronic documentation from the MEDSTAR medical information system (data for September 2020). First, the authors analyzed and compared the number of patients who visited the dispensary №1, and the number of patients visited by doctors at home in September 2020 and September 2018. Second, the authors determined the number of referrals for examination issued to patients in September 2020 and September 2018. Third, the authors surveyed the patients on their satisfaction with the quality of medical care. The results of the research showed that the total number of patients’ visits at the dispensary №1 decreased by 32.4%, and the rate of home visits decreased by 5.12% in September 2020 compared to September 2018. The same situation is with the number of referrals for examination. In September 2018 763 patients got referrals for further examinations, and in September 2020 the number of referrals was 169. The survey showed that patients are dissatisfied with some aspects of the quality of medical care, particularly, with the automation of medicine, focus of medicine, as well as with the conditions of appointment and accessibility of conventional medical services. In total, the results of the research helped to highlight problems in the work of family doctors caused by healthcare reform and medical information systems implementation which reduce the quality of medical care. The recommendations for problems solving were suggested. The authors’ research will be useful for further research in the quality of medical care.
The sphere of trust in the health care system, which is actively developing in covid and postcovid conditions, is accompanied by a significant increase in the amount of scientific literature that requires detailed analysis. Accordingly, the primary purpose of this study is to conduct a multilevel bibliometric analysis of publications on trust in the health care system. This will provide a global picture of the phenomenon to determine the dynamic aspects of trends from a statistical point of view, using content-contextual, descriptive, comparative, cluster and evolutionary-temporal analysis. The methodological basis of the study is a set of scientific publications indexed in the scientometric database Scopus, which was analyzed using analytical tools ScopusTools and VOSViewer. A total of 1,134 articles published between 1999 and the second quarter of 2022 were analyzed. The results show a growing trend in the spread of research on trust in the health care system. According to the results, five stages of scientific development of the researched subject were identified, in particular, the last one is characterized by extremely high research interest and covers the period from 2020 to the second quarter of 2022. The geographic center of research is the United Kingdom, and a significant contribution to the development of trust research in the health care system has been made by scientists in the United States, Australia and Canada. The analysis of the sectoral structure of financial sector trust research shows a weak diversification, and a comparative analysis of publications shows a close link between the concepts of trust in the health care system, vaccination and COVID-19. Cluster analysis identified five main groups of research. The results of evolutionary-temporal analysis show that at the beginning of scientific interest, research focused on interpersonal relationships between doctors and patients, and the latest area of research is to study the impact of trust on public decision-making on vaccination and other preventive measures. Thus, the study results showed that trust is one of the most crucial components in ensuring an effective health policy.
In this article, a theoretical study was carried out related to the analysis of the health insurance system in Ukraine regarding the level of its information transparency and transparency in interaction with private, cooperative clients and the state, which represents the controlling and regulatory authorities. The main goal of this study is an analytical assessment of insurance companies that provide services for voluntary health insurance in terms of openness to users of information about their economic activities, features of the offered insurance policies, their cost, etc. This paper summarizes the arguments and counterarguments within the scientific debate regarding the concept of «transparency» and the benefit received by subjects of economic relations from following the principles of openness and integrity. The urgency of solving this scientific problem lies in the fact that the level of medical protection and the quality of services provided to the population on the basis of the existing state health insurance is at a low level and does not contribute to improving the health, working capacity and quality of life of society. The study of the transparency of the health insurance system was carried out in the following logical sequence: the relevance and problematic of the researched question are determined, as well as the position of scientists regarding this is summarized; a general analysis of the dynamics of net insurance premiums and net insurance payments for 2019-2021 was carried out, for various types of insurance, including medical insurance; the activity of the most rated insurance companies in health insurance was analyzed by the level of insurance premiums and payments as of the end of 2021; a comparative analysis of the insurance products of the companies was carried out and, based on transparency indicators and a scoring system, a conditional division of the analyzed commercial institutions according to the level of information transparency into high, medium and low levels was performed, based on the obtained points with the selection of the most attractive and informationally open institutions; the final stage of the article provides conclusions and own recommendations for solving problematic aspects of the research. Informational data from the official websites of the analyzed insurance companies, open data of the National Bank of Ukraine, and statistical information on the functioning of the insurance market from the Internet became the factual basis for this study. The results of the conducted research can be helpful for individuals who are interested in choosing an insurance company for personal health insurance.
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