Paola Di Giulio
Biographic Data
| ID | 248956 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paola Di Giulio |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paola |
| FAMILY NAME | Di Giulio |
| SIGNATURE | DI GIULIO P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Austrian Academy of Sciences |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2199-2478 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 167 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Health Expectancy: Increasingly Used, but Not Well Understood
Good health is central to human happiness and well-being. It contributes substantially to economic progress, as healthy populations live longer and are more productive. The corresponding public health policies are typically assessed based on a structural indicator for "Health Expectancy" (HE) such as the EU's "Healthy Life Years" (HLY) or the WHO's "Health-Adjusted Life Expectancy" (HALE). Unfortunately, HE estimates are extremely sensitive to me…
The Impact of Health and Social Care Professionals’ Education on the Quality of Serious Illness Conversations in Nursing Homes: Study Protocol of a Quality Improvement Project
Health and social care professionals (HCPs) who work in nursing homes (NHs) are increasingly required to sustain serious illness conversations about care goals and preferences. Although these conversations may also be challenging for experienced HCPs and the literature recognizes high-quality communication as key to providing patient-centered care, so far, no specific educational program has been developed for the NH setting to improve HCPs' comm…
Challenges Experienced by Italian Nursing Home Staff in End-of-Life Conversations with Family Caregivers during Covid-19 Pandemic: A Qualitative Descriptive Study
End-of-life conversations are among the most challenging of all communication scenarios and on the agenda of several healthcare settings, including nursing homes (NHs). They may be also difficult for experienced healthcare professionals (HCPs). This study explores the difficulties experienced by Italian NH staff in end-of-life conversations with family caregivers (FCs) during COVID-19 pandemic to uncover their educational needs. A qualitative des…
Simulating family life courses: An application for Italy, Great Britain, Norway, and Sweden
Family patterns in Western countries have changed substantially across birth cohorts. The spread of unmarried cohabitation, the decline and postponement of marriage and fertility, and the rise in nonmarital births, partnership instability, and repartnering
The changing pattern of cohabitation: A sequence analysis approach
During the last decades, nonmarital cohabitation has diffused throughout the industrialised world, although not uniformly. The Second Demographic Transition (SDT) predicts a convergence of cohabitation patterns towards a final stage in which cohabitation a
Ageing in an aged society: Experiences and attitudes of Catholic order members towards population ageing and older people
Population ageing occurs in all industrialised societies and is the demographic phenomenon that currently gets the highest attention from scientists, policy makers and the general public. The main aim of this paper is to broaden our understanding of its societal consequences, such as ageism and intergenerational solidarity. Our study is based on the 2008 investigation of attitudes towards population ageing and older people in seven European count…
Ageing dynamics of a human-capital-specific population: A demographic perspective
Research on how rising human capital affects the consequences of population ageing rarely considers the fact that the human capital of the elderly population is composed in a specific way that is shaped by their earlier schooling and work experience. For a
Should patients perception of health status be integrated in the prognostic assessment of heart failure patients? A prospective study
Changes in union status during the transition to parenthood in eleven European countries, 1970s to early 2000s
Couples who have children are increasingly likely to have lived together without being married at some point in their relationship. Some couples begin their unions with cohabitation and marry before first conception, some marry during pregnancy or directly after the first birth, while others remain unmarried 3 years after the first birth. Using union and fertility histories since the 1970s for eleven countries, we examine whether women who have c…
Differences in life expectancy by education and occupation in Italy, 1980-94: Indirect estimates from maternal and paternal orphanhood
In the present study, we use the modified orphanhood method to analyse mortality differences by socio-economic status in Italy. This technique permits the indirect estimation of adult mortality from survey-based information on parents' survival in developed populations and helps to overcome several limitations of conventional studies on mortality differences by social class. We estimate a time series of life tables by education and occupation and…
Increasingly heterogeneous ages at first birth by education in Southern European and Anglo-American family-policy regimes: A seven-country comparison by birth cohort
According to the 'reproductive polarization' hypothesis, family-policy regimes unfavourable to the combination of employment with motherhood generate greater socio-economic differentials in fertility than other regimes. This hypothesis has been tested mainly for 'liberal' Anglo-American regimes. To investigate the effects elsewhere, we compared education differentials in age at first birth among native-born women of 1950s and 1960s birth cohorts …
Intergenerational family ties and the diffusion of cohabitation in Italy
Cohabitation has been spreading in the population during the last thirty years, and this is one of the most striking aspects of wider social changes that have taken place throughout the industrialized world. However, this change did not take place unif
Changes in union status during the transition to parenthood in eleven European countries, 1970s to early 2000s
Couples who have children are increasingly likely to have lived together without being married at some point in their relationship. Some couples begin their unions with cohabitation and marry before first conception, some marry during pregnancy or directly after the first birth, while others remain unmarried 3 years after the first birth. Using union and fertility histories since the 1970s for eleven countries, we examine whether women who have c…
Intergenerational family ties and the diffusion of cohabitation in Italy
Cohabitation has been spreading in the population during the last thirty years, and this is one of the most striking aspects of wider social changes that have taken place throughout the industrialized world. However, this change did not take place unif
Increasingly heterogeneous ages at first birth by education in Southern European and Anglo-American family-policy regimes: A seven-country comparison by birth cohort
According to the 'reproductive polarization' hypothesis, family-policy regimes unfavourable to the combination of employment with motherhood generate greater socio-economic differentials in fertility than other regimes. This hypothesis has been tested mainly for 'liberal' Anglo-American regimes. To investigate the effects elsewhere, we compared education differentials in age at first birth among native-born women of 1950s and 1960s birth cohorts …
The changing pattern of cohabitation: A sequence analysis approach
During the last decades, nonmarital cohabitation has diffused throughout the industrialised world, although not uniformly. The Second Demographic Transition (SDT) predicts a convergence of cohabitation patterns towards a final stage in which cohabitation a
Differences in life expectancy by education and occupation in Italy, 1980-94: Indirect estimates from maternal and paternal orphanhood
In the present study, we use the modified orphanhood method to analyse mortality differences by socio-economic status in Italy. This technique permits the indirect estimation of adult mortality from survey-based information on parents' survival in developed populations and helps to overcome several limitations of conventional studies on mortality differences by social class. We estimate a time series of life tables by education and occupation and…
Simulating family life courses: An application for Italy, Great Britain, Norway, and Sweden
Family patterns in Western countries have changed substantially across birth cohorts. The spread of unmarried cohabitation, the decline and postponement of marriage and fertility, and the rise in nonmarital births, partnership instability, and repartnering
Ageing in an aged society: Experiences and attitudes of Catholic order members towards population ageing and older people
Population ageing occurs in all industrialised societies and is the demographic phenomenon that currently gets the highest attention from scientists, policy makers and the general public. The main aim of this paper is to broaden our understanding of its societal consequences, such as ageism and intergenerational solidarity. Our study is based on the 2008 investigation of attitudes towards population ageing and older people in seven European count…
Health Expectancy: Increasingly Used, but Not Well Understood
Good health is central to human happiness and well-being. It contributes substantially to economic progress, as healthy populations live longer and are more productive. The corresponding public health policies are typically assessed based on a structural indicator for "Health Expectancy" (HE) such as the EU's "Healthy Life Years" (HLY) or the WHO's "Health-Adjusted Life Expectancy" (HALE). Unfortunately, HE estimates are extremely sensitive to me…
Intergenerational family ties and the diffusion of cohabitation in Italy
Cohabitation has been spreading in the population during the last thirty years, and this is one of the most striking aspects of wider social changes that have taken place throughout the industrialized world. However, this change did not take place unif
Increasingly heterogeneous ages at first birth by education in Southern European and Anglo-American family-policy regimes: A seven-country comparison by birth cohort
According to the 'reproductive polarization' hypothesis, family-policy regimes unfavourable to the combination of employment with motherhood generate greater socio-economic differentials in fertility than other regimes. This hypothesis has been tested mainly for 'liberal' Anglo-American regimes. To investigate the effects elsewhere, we compared education differentials in age at first birth among native-born women of 1950s and 1960s birth cohorts …
Differences in life expectancy by education and occupation in Italy, 1980-94: Indirect estimates from maternal and paternal orphanhood
In the present study, we use the modified orphanhood method to analyse mortality differences by socio-economic status in Italy. This technique permits the indirect estimation of adult mortality from survey-based information on parents' survival in developed populations and helps to overcome several limitations of conventional studies on mortality differences by social class. We estimate a time series of life tables by education and occupation and…
Changes in union status during the transition to parenthood in eleven European countries, 1970s to early 2000s
Couples who have children are increasingly likely to have lived together without being married at some point in their relationship. Some couples begin their unions with cohabitation and marry before first conception, some marry during pregnancy or directly after the first birth, while others remain unmarried 3 years after the first birth. Using union and fertility histories since the 1970s for eleven countries, we examine whether women who have c…
Should patients perception of health status be integrated in the prognostic assessment of heart failure patients? A prospective study
Ageing dynamics of a human-capital-specific population: A demographic perspective
Research on how rising human capital affects the consequences of population ageing rarely considers the fact that the human capital of the elderly population is composed in a specific way that is shaped by their earlier schooling and work experience. For a
Ageing in an aged society: Experiences and attitudes of Catholic order members towards population ageing and older people
Population ageing occurs in all industrialised societies and is the demographic phenomenon that currently gets the highest attention from scientists, policy makers and the general public. The main aim of this paper is to broaden our understanding of its societal consequences, such as ageism and intergenerational solidarity. Our study is based on the 2008 investigation of attitudes towards population ageing and older people in seven European count…
The changing pattern of cohabitation: A sequence analysis approach
During the last decades, nonmarital cohabitation has diffused throughout the industrialised world, although not uniformly. The Second Demographic Transition (SDT) predicts a convergence of cohabitation patterns towards a final stage in which cohabitation a
Simulating family life courses: An application for Italy, Great Britain, Norway, and Sweden
Family patterns in Western countries have changed substantially across birth cohorts. The spread of unmarried cohabitation, the decline and postponement of marriage and fertility, and the rise in nonmarital births, partnership instability, and repartnering
The Impact of Health and Social Care Professionals’ Education on the Quality of Serious Illness Conversations in Nursing Homes: Study Protocol of a Quality Improvement Project
Health and social care professionals (HCPs) who work in nursing homes (NHs) are increasingly required to sustain serious illness conversations about care goals and preferences. Although these conversations may also be challenging for experienced HCPs and the literature recognizes high-quality communication as key to providing patient-centered care, so far, no specific educational program has been developed for the NH setting to improve HCPs' comm…
Challenges Experienced by Italian Nursing Home Staff in End-of-Life Conversations with Family Caregivers during Covid-19 Pandemic: A Qualitative Descriptive Study
End-of-life conversations are among the most challenging of all communication scenarios and on the agenda of several healthcare settings, including nursing homes (NHs). They may be also difficult for experienced healthcare professionals (HCPs). This study explores the difficulties experienced by Italian NH staff in end-of-life conversations with family caregivers (FCs) during COVID-19 pandemic to uncover their educational needs. A qualitative des…
Health Expectancy: Increasingly Used, but Not Well Understood
Good health is central to human happiness and well-being. It contributes substantially to economic progress, as healthy populations live longer and are more productive. The corresponding public health policies are typically assessed based on a structural indicator for "Health Expectancy" (HE) such as the EU's "Healthy Life Years" (HLY) or the WHO's "Health-Adjusted Life Expectancy" (HALE). Unfortunately, HE estimates are extremely sensitive to me…
Demography (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Economics (7 works) · Population (7 works) · Geography (6 works) · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving (6 works) · Demographic economics (5 works) · Family Dynamics and Relationships (5 works) · Cohabitation (4 works) · Medicine (4 works)