http://arthra.ugal.ro/handle/20.500.14043/26224 Fri, 17 Apr 2026 05:50:52 GMT 2026-04-17T05:50:52Z http://arthra.ugal.ro/handle/20.500.14043/26243 Alcohol Consumption: Measuring the Risk of Household Poverty (Case of the Urban District of Toamasina - Madagascar) Tsikomia, Amaïde Arsan Miriarison; Şarpe, Daniela The individual consumer of alcohol, often the household head, loses part of his income to buy alcohol. Excessive consumption of alcohol causes social costs (support costs of illness, family trauma, car accident, job loss and productivity etc.). Its effects on the health of the individual drinker are asymptomatic. If it is the case of a disease of alcoholism, the household must bear the costs of care, and those whose low-income or average income is below the permanent poverty, are confronted with a financial difficulty, drawing their savings and even selling their property to address this shortfall. The accumulation of costs caused by alcohol consumption is then a catastrophic expense for the household. The aim of the study is to show to what point we can calculate the risk of household poverty with an alcoholic individual head of household between the two periods: "disease free" and "appearance of the disease of alcoholism" Having obtained the value of the poverty line, a mathematical modeling of the expense of alcohol was made to derive an orientation axis to minimize the risk of poverty. Annals of “Dunarea de Jos” University of Galati Fascicle I. Economics and Applied Informatics Sun, 01 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://arthra.ugal.ro/handle/20.500.14043/26243 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z http://arthra.ugal.ro/handle/20.500.14043/26242 How to Cover the Medical Costs of Hospitalization: a Theoretical Model Based on the Household Willingness to Pay Tsikomia, Amaïde Arsan Miriarison; Ştefănescu, Răzvan; Şarpe, Daniela Covering medical costs is very important, in order to solve the various financial problems that limit the users’ access to health care (patients attending the public hospitals). Designing a new model of financing system by using an additional levy to the local tax revenue is one of the solutions to these problems. This theoretical model optimizes the amount of financial participation of the users or "pfu" compared to the direct costs of hospital care starting from the willingness to pay revealed by the household. The criterion of morbidity for predicting the staffing of a part from the tax amount was chosen so that we can handle most of the users of the hospital. Firstly, the model shows that our new system could reduce the direct costs of care paid by users, and secondly, it also helps provide an additional resource in the supplementary budget of hospitals. Annals of “Dunarea de Jos” University of Galati Fascicle I. Economics and Applied Informatics Sun, 01 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://arthra.ugal.ro/handle/20.500.14043/26242 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z http://arthra.ugal.ro/handle/20.500.14043/26241 A Conceptual Framework for Team Social Capital as Basis for Organizational Team Synergy Zoltan, Raluca The purpose of this paper is to outline a conceptual framework of team social capital as a basis for reaching organizational team synergy. The dimensions of team social capital and the basic conditions required for organizational team synergy enable the extension of current model of team social capital by including of other variables. Today’s managers must consider these variables since the team tends to be the basic structural unit of current organizations and synergy, the key to achieving high performance in global competition. Annals of “Dunarea de Jos” University of Galati Fascicle I. Economics and Applied Informatics Sun, 01 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://arthra.ugal.ro/handle/20.500.14043/26241 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z http://arthra.ugal.ro/handle/20.500.14043/26240 Romania's Competitiveness and Competitive Position in Global Context Neculiţă, Mihaela; Neculiţă, Valentin Competitiveness increase has become a primordial framework of the social and economic development strategies of most world countries (mainly the most developed ones) over the last decades. The vigorous boost of the contemporary phenomenon of globalization, which has widened the global area of economies, sectors and firms confrontation, has laid an emphasis on their competitiveness importance for their favorable position in the international competition and has therefore force the status to take proper, broad and concerted measures to stimulate the determining factors of action and to take better advantage of their effects. The purpose of the paper is to determine whether an increase in competitiveness could reduce the disparities between regions. The E.U. Member States and regions need significant financial help to solve various structural problems and to achieve their potential of growth. Romania is no exception, one of the main problems being the low rate in attracting European funds. Annals of “Dunarea de Jos” University of Galati Fascicle I. Economics and Applied Informatics Sun, 01 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://arthra.ugal.ro/handle/20.500.14043/26240 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z