Abstract: Patient involvement” and “patient engagement” are two buzzwords in the field of health care provision, whose statement is recurring in most of the current international health care reforms. Both of them suggest a reconceptualization of health care: from a provider-led service, it turns to be a co-produced service. Consistently, the patient is understood as the subject rather than the object of care, being engaged in any phase of the provision. Nevertheless, most of the patients are not able or they are unwilling to be involved in the provision of care. Information asymmetry, psychological weaknesses, and poor health literacy hinder the activation of the patient. Lacking a process of patient enablement, co-production of care is doomed at remaining beautiful words. This article depicts the results of a descriptive literature review aimed at discussing the relation between health literacy and patient involvement. Although health literacy is widely understood as a key determinant of patien

• Publication Date: 26-Oct-2014
• DOI: 10.15224/978-1-63248-032-3-105
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Abstract: Global recession of 2008 had a major effect on the auto industry worldwide. This paper is an attempt at analyzing the impact of recession on the auto industry in India. The financial data of auto companies in the passenger vehicle segment having 80% share in market, is used. The DuPont 5 point ratios are compared for two different periods of pre­2008 and post­2008. To validate their correlation with the financial healthof the companies, multiple linear regression was applied on 3 of the 5 ratios (as the independent variables) and net earnings (as the dependent variable). Each of the DuPont 5 point ratios were compared with their corresponding values in pre­ and post­ recession phase, to identify the extent of change, using T­ test. The paper highlights the extent of affect, the DuPont ratios have on EAT in the two phases. An insignificant change was observed in the coefficient of equity multiplier, the ratio of total asset and share holders’ equity, which implies that there was no effe

• Publication Date: 26-Oct-2014
• DOI: 10.15224/978-1-63248-032-3-106
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