Basel capital requirements and bank behavior : evidence form Turkish banking systems

Ankara : The Department of Management, İhsan Doğramacı Bilkent University, 2014.Thesis (Master's) -- Bilkent University, 2014.Includes bibliographical references leaves 70-72.In this study I examine the effects of Basel capital requirements on the behavior of Turkish banks for the period between December 2002 and December 2013. Turkish banks are found to increase their lending rates by 17.33 basis points in case of a one-percent rise in equity to asset ratio. When the same analysis is applied to state, private and foreign banks, it is found that state banks behave differently and decrease their lending rates when they increase their equity to asset ratio. As a second analysis, I examine how banks react when they are exposed to regulatory pressure to increase their equity to asset ratio. I use simultaneous equations methodology to measure the effects of regulatory pressure. The findings indicate that private banks do not change their behavior, state banks increase their equity to asset ratio and foreign banks decrease their risk level when they are exposed to regulatory pressure.Deryol, AhmetM.S

Correction to: Two years later: Is the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic still having an impact on emergency surgery? An international cross-sectional survey among WSES members

Background: The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic is still ongoing and a major challenge for health care services worldwide. In the first WSES COVID-19 emergency surgery survey, a strong negative impact on emergency surgery (ES) had been described already early in the pandemic situation. However, the knowledge is limited about current effects of the pandemic on patient flow through emergency rooms, daily routine and decision making in ES as well as their changes over time during the last two pandemic years. This second WSES COVID-19 emergency surgery survey investigates the impact of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic on ES during the course of the pandemic. Methods: A web survey had been distributed to medical specialists in ES during a four-week period from January 2022, investigating the impact of the pandemic on patients and septic diseases both requiring ES, structural problems due to the pandemic and time-to-intervention in ES routine. Results: 367 collaborators from 59 countries responded to the survey. The majority indicated that the pandemic still significantly impacts on treatment and outcome of surgical emergency patients (83.1% and 78.5%, respectively). As reasons, the collaborators reported decreased case load in ES (44.7%), but patients presenting with more prolonged and severe diseases, especially concerning perforated appendicitis (62.1%) and diverticulitis (57.5%). Otherwise, approximately 50% of the participants still observe a delay in time-to-intervention in ES compared with the situation before the pandemic. Relevant causes leading to enlarged time-to-intervention in ES during the pandemic are persistent problems with in-hospital logistics, lacks in medical staff as well as operating room and intensive care capacities during the pandemic. This leads not only to the need for triage or transferring of ES patients to other hospitals, reported by 64.0% and 48.8% of the collaborators, respectively, but also to paradigm shifts in treatment modalities to non-operative approaches reported by 67.3% of the participants, especially in uncomplicated appendicitis, cholecystitis and multiple-recurrent diverticulitis. Conclusions: The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic still significantly impacts on care and outcome of patients in ES. Well-known problems with in-hospital logistics are not sufficiently resolved by now; however, medical staff shortages and reduced capacities have been dramatically aggravated over last two pandemic years

Casebook for Advocacy in Public Health

The Global Charter for Public’s Healthhighlights advocacy as a key function of public health. However, in many countries the study, teaching, and application of advocacy to improve population health remains neglected. Increasing the capacity for advocacy can have many positive effects on population health such as stimulating the development of health policies in public and private sectors or prioritizing public health efforts higher in political agendas globally through public health evidence based research on advocacy. The Casebook on Advocacy in Public Health serves as a tool for national public health associations and other actors to improve their capacity of influence on national public health policies through advocacy efforts.The Casebook establishes what is public health advocacy and emphasizes the importance of advocacy as an essential public health function by bringing together 18 cases of public health advocacy from different corners of the world. It covers a range of public health topics from tackling climate change at a global level to improving the conditions in African prisons with investigative journalism and strategic litigation. Additionally, by drawing on the similarities and differences of the various experiences included in the casebook, key issues such as gender equity, discrimination, and investment in wellbeing and health equity are raised and advocacy is highlighted as an essential public health tool to tackle these issues.Ultimately, the Casebook aims to increase knowledge and the capacity to develop and implement advocacy strategies to improve population health at local, regional, national and international levels, as well as inspire the development of curricula and other training materials to strengthen advocacy efforts by supporting instruction, debate, dialogue and action