Technology protocols and new health regulations for pandemic severity control: an S-O-R theoretical risk reduction approach

Ausaf, Ali; Yuan, Huiqing; Nasir, Saba Ali

doi:10.1108/k-12-2022-1684

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“…These policies may reduce the visit duration of single consultations and help in minimizing the overall investment for hospitals. Finally, it is necessary to improve the literacy and communications for citizens towards new technology protocols and health regulations, especially during a pandemic, to maximize the efficiency in reducing the operating costs of hospitals [79,80].…”

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Analysis of the Forces Driving Public Hospitals’ Operating Costs Using LMDI Decomposition: The Case of Japan

Kou,

Dou,

Arai

2024

Sustainability

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The sustainable management of public hospitals is usually threatened by long-term operating deficit, which was exacerbated during the COVID-19 pandemic. This study aimed to quantitatively decompose the historical changes in the annual operating costs of public hospitals in Japan to identify the main driving forces responsible for a worsening imbalance between operating costs and income over the past two decades. A dataset of the annual operating costs of public hospitals in Japan was compiled, in which influencing factors were redefined to make the data amenable to the application of a decomposition method referred to as the Logarithmic Mean Divisia Index (LMDI). Using the LMDI method, the contribution of each influencing factor to the changes in public hospital operating costs was quantitatively determined. The results indicate that, on average, there is an annual reduction in operating costs by JPY 9 million per hospital, arising out of the national reform of public hospitals, but the rapid increase in the prices and worsened structure of costs in recent years resulted in an annual increment of JPY 127 million per hospital to the increasing operating costs. The pandemic revealed damage to the financial balance of public hospitals, but epidemic prevention policies brought an offset to the increased operating cost. A more resilient domestic medical supply chain, the introduction of new technologies, and continuous endeavors in system reform and pricing policies are required to achieve financial sustainability in public hospitals in Japan.

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Analysis of the Forces Driving Public Hospitals’ Operating Costs Using LMDI Decomposition: The Case of Japan

Kou,

Dou,

Arai

2024

Sustainability

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“…Many organizations were strictly bound to shut down their offices, almost 81% of the global workforce has encountered workplace shutdowns [3]. In this situation, expanding remote working culture in organizations is viewed as a temporary solution of COVID-19 pandemic [4]. According to [5], during the COVID-19 pandemic, most jobs were offered online, and 29.2 percent of all remote jobs are reported from the information and communication technology (ICT) sectors.…”

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Role of Online Time-Spatial Job Crafting and Leisure Crafting on Remote Work Performance through Tele-Pressure and Techno-Self-Efficacy

Wang¹,

Xiong

Murad

et al. 2023

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Remote work is becoming an inevitable practice in today’s business world which has transformed all business operations in times of COVID-19. This study aims to explore the roles of online time-spatial job crafting and leisure crafting for dealing with tele-pressure and techno-self-efficacy for improving remote work performance. Data are gathered through an online survey of 486 employees working in the IT sector of Pakistan and the partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) technique is used to analyze the hypothesis relationships. The results show that online job crafting and leisure crafting positively and significantly influence remote work performance. Moreover, findings indicate that tele-pressure partially mediates the relationship between online time job crafting and leisure crafting on remote work performance. Results also show that techno-self-efficacy positively moderates the relationship between online time job crafting and leisure crafting on tele-pressure. The findings provide insightful suggestions for building a collaborative remote workplace at the individual and collective level to implement job crafting interventions and enrich workers’ personal and organizational resources, which is helpful to cope with current challenges.

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Domestic tourism and the effects of behavioral changes, government-media trust and moderation of “maintenance of country image”: theoretical analysis

Yasir,

Hu,

Aktan

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PurposeContemporary changes have occurred in country-level policies and tourists’ intentions in recent years. The role of maintaining a country’s image is trendy in crisis control but has not yet been discussed in domestic tourism research. Extending the Stimulus Organism Response model, this study aims to focus on “trustable WOM creation” in China. In addition, it aimed to discover how behavioral changes encourage domestic tourism intention (DTI).Design/methodology/approachThis study explored the mediating role of DTI and the moderating role of maintenance of country image (MCI) for trustable word of mouth (WOM) creation. Using the snowball sampling technique, a structural equation modeling analysis (Smart PLS-4) was employed to analyze the data of 487 Chinese tourists.FindingsFindings confirm that behavioral changes positively encourage domestic tourism and discourage international tourism, with significant negative moderation by MCI. MCI has an insignificant positive moderating effect between government-media trust and DTI. Furthermore, DTI positively and directly affects the creation of trustable WOM. In addition, it had a 20% mediation effect (VAF%) between behavioral changes and WOM creation, higher than the rejected mediation effect (12%), in the causal relationship between government-media trust and WOM creation.Practical implicationsWOM creation varies from different behavioral changes, but findings suggest that government-media trust and DTI influenced it significantly. Based on the study findings, the government and media can enhance domestic tourism by maintaining the country’s image. These findings both encourage and control the recovery of tourism.Originality/valueThis study provides a theoretical explanation for tourists' behavioral changes during the pandemic. Moreover, it shows that despite avoiding international tourism due to behavioral changes and government-media trust, MCI moderation with the mediation effect of DTI can create trustable WOM. To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this is the first study to theoretically promote tourism through DTI-induced psychology as a mediator and an organism affect prevailing among Chinese tourists.

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Technology protocols and new health regulations for pandemic severity control: an S-O-R theoretical risk reduction approach

Cited by 3 publications

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Analysis of the Forces Driving Public Hospitals’ Operating Costs Using LMDI Decomposition: The Case of Japan

Analysis of the Forces Driving Public Hospitals’ Operating Costs Using LMDI Decomposition: The Case of Japan

Role of Online Time-Spatial Job Crafting and Leisure Crafting on Remote Work Performance through Tele-Pressure and Techno-Self-Efficacy

Domestic tourism and the effects of behavioral changes, government-media trust and moderation of “maintenance of country image”: theoretical analysis

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