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Willingness to vaccinate against Covid-19 : a qualitative study involving older adults from Southern Switzerland

Fadda, Marta ; Suggs, L. Suzanne ; Albanese, Emiliano

In: Vaccine: X, 2021, vol. 8, p. 7

Background: The Covid-19 pandemic is causing unprecedented disruption and suffering to people across the globe, with a disproportionate toll on the elderly. The development and equitable distribution of a vaccine seems to be the most promising and sustainable route ahead. The goal of this study was to explore older adults’ attitudes towards and beliefs regarding the Covid-19 vaccination in...

Rationing of health care: is there an economic rationality to it?

Zweifel, Peter

In: The European Journal of Health Economics, 2015, vol. 16, no. 8, p. 797-800

The role of cognitive resources for subjective work ability and health in nursing

Ihle, Andreas ; Borella, Erika ; Rahnfeld, Marlen ; Müller, Sandrine ; Enge, Sören ; Hacker, Winfried ; Wegge, Jürgen ; Oris, Michel ; Kliegel, Matthias

In: European Journal of Ageing, 2015, vol. 12, no. 2, p. 131-140

Using discrete choice experiments to regulate the provision of water services: do status quo choices reflect preferences?

Lanz, Bruno ; Provins, Allan

In: Journal of Regulatory Economics, 2015, vol. 47, no. 3, p. 300-324

Children with mental versus physical health problems: differences in perceived disease severity, health care service utilization and parental health literacy

Dey, Michelle ; Wang, Jen ; Jorm, Anthony ; Mohler-Kuo, Meichun

In: Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 2015, vol. 50, no. 3, p. 407-418

Optimizing insurance pricing by incorporating consumers' perceptions of risk classification

Störmer, Tina

In: Zeitschrift für die gesamte Versicherungswissenschaft, 2015, vol. 104, no. 1, p. 11-37

Direct to Consumer Advertising: The Case for Greater Consumer Control

Guessous, Idris ; Dash, Chiranjeev

In: Journal of General Internal Medicine, 2015, vol. 30, no. 4, p. 392-394

Exploring the behavioural base for the Swiss energy transition : The role of attitudes and heterogeneity in the preferences of electricity consumers

Motz, Alessandra ; Maggi, Rico (Dir.)

Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2021 ; 2021ECO003.

In the context of the international climate change mitigation efforts, several countries have been scaling up their efforts to decarbonize their economies and energy systems. The restructuring of the electricity systems has brought about new challenges, among which the acceptance of the new infrastructures and technologies, and the need of ensuring an optimal level of security of supply. This...

Security of supply and the energy transition : the households' perspective investigated through a discrete choice model with latent classes

Motz, Alessandra

In: Energy economics, 2021, vol. 97, no. May, p. 16 p

A consumer-centric, market-based approach to the security of electricity supply has been recognized as increasingly important in the context of the energy transition. Nonetheless, there is no clear-cut evidence regarding the drivers of consumer preferences toward security and the perceived trade-offs between security and sustainability. Using stated preference data, we develop a discrete...

Consumer acceptance of the energy transition in Switzerland : the role of attitudes explained through a hybrid discrete choice model

Motz, Alessandra

In: Energy policy, 2021, vol. 151, no. April, p. 15 p

While several countries progress in the energy transition, the social acceptance of new infrastructures becomes increasingly important. We focus on market acceptance, and study the preferences of Swiss households with respect to selected energy sources used for electricity generation. By applying a hybrid discrete choice model with latent variables on stated preference data, we assess...