
Hamed Ahmadinia- Doctor of Philosophy
- Senior Researcher at University of Turku
Hamed Ahmadinia
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Senior Researcher at University of Turku
Empirical research to understand immigrants’ health beliefs, health needs and utilisation in three Nordic countries.
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Introduction
Ahmadinia has a diverse academic background ranging from finance to information studies, which made him interested in conducting multidisciplinary studies where he could apply modern social science research principles with current analytical and computational tools.
Current institution
Additional affiliations
August 2023 - September 2024
August 2023 - September 2024
January 2011 - April 2014
Education
January 2019 - May 2024
Åbo Akademi University
Field of study
- Information study
September 2014 - June 2016
September 2008 - September 2010
Azad University Central Tehran Branch
Field of study
- Business Administration - Finance
Publications
Publications (30)
This review investigates the impact of personal and contextual factors on health-seeking behaviours in terms of health-related information and healthcare service needs and utilization among asylum seekers, refugees, and undocumented immigrants using an adapted framework based on an extended Longo health information model. The 73 peer-reviewed recor...
The aim of this study is to evaluate the functionality and effect of portfolio management of investmentcompanies, which have had the active portfolio in Tehran stock exchange from 2005-2010. In order to do so, andassess their performance based on modern and post modern portfolio theories; this has been carried out by usingSharp, Sortino and Sterlin...
The aim of this paper is to evaluate the performance of top 50 Companies listed in Tehran Stock Exchange. This study was performed on the companies that were active from 2006 until 2010. The paper applied non-probable method in order to choose companies, which had positive liquidity, high turnover and high effect on the market. With regard to post...
This study introduces the development and modifications of the widely used standard capital asset pricing model (CAPM). Many modifications are applied to the model’s challenging financial variables such as: financial risk factors, liquidity risks, downside risks, risk of non expected events, and economic and operational risk factors. Efficiency of...
Hamed Ahmadinia’s dissertation in the field of Information Studies, ”Navigating Cultural, Health, and Information Landscapes A User-focused Approach to Immigrant Health in a Nordic Context”, was examined on May 13, 2024, at the Åbo Akademi's Faculty of Social Sciences, Business and Law. Professor Ágústa Pálsdóttir (University of Iceland, Iceland se...
This dissertation undertakes a comprehensive investigation into the health information behaviours and health service requirements of immigrants, asylum seekers, and refugees across Nordic countries of Norway, Finland, and Sweden. The study presents valuable findings concerning the complex interplay among cultural factors, social networks, and perso...
Purpose
This research paper aims to delve into the perceptions of health susceptibility among Iranian, Afghan and Tajik individuals hailing from asylum-seeking or refused asylum-seeking backgrounds currently residing in Finland, Norway and Sweden.
Design/methodology/approach
Semi-structured interviews were conducted between May and October 2022 in...
The purpose of this study is to explore health information environment and behaviours of Persian-speaking immigrants in Finland during the COVID-19 pandemic, utilising information chaos framework. Between January to March 2022, semi-structured interviews were conducted with a sample of 18 participants, using an adapted framework of information chao...
Background— Studies on people with asylum-seeking backgrounds reveal different needs for and challenges with utilisation of health-related information and healthcare services in host countries. In order to explore such needs and challenges, we need to identify influential factors that affect the motivation of people with asylum-seeking background t...
Immigrants encounter cultural adaptation challenges impacting their health behaviors and outcomes, with health information and cultural factors influencing their actions. A survey of 340 participants from Finland, Norway, and Sweden was conducted, and the data were analyzed using structural equation modelling. Results show that health beliefs and a...
Over the course of the last few decades, the Nordic countries are facing a change in their population structure, with a growing number of immigrants including people with asylum-seeking and refugee backgrounds. Almost three million people have moved to the Nordic countries in the last decade (Nordic Welfare Centre, 2017). For example, in Norway the...
This article reviews health beliefs, and attitudes of asylum seekers and refugees, using an adapted framework of the Health Belief Model. The systematic review included 15 peer-reviewed records retrieved from CINAHL, Medline, PubMed, PsycINFO, and PsycArticles. Findings of this review show culture, tradition, fate or destiny, psychological factors,...
Literature on minorities' health-related information seeking shows that minorities, like non-minorities, require access to accurate and timely information, but they also need information in a range of languages and from a variety of sources. Health-related information seeking behaviour of Persian-speaking minorities living in Finland, explicitly fo...
Purpose
Immigrants, asylum seekers and refugees living in Europe face a number of challenges in accessing or using health information and healthcare services available in their host countries. To resolve these issues and deliver the necessary services, providers must take a comprehensive approach to better understand the types of health information...
Purpose – Immigrants, asylum seekers and refugees living in Europe face a number of challenges in accessing or using health information and healthcare services available in their host countries. To resolve these issues and deliver the necessary services, providers must take a comprehensive approach to better understand the types of health informati...
Empowering individuals through e-health can be considered as the current trend in developing healthcare services and devices. The aim of this article is to shed light on availability, benefits, and limitations of using these services and devices in people’s everyday life. This study is a descriptive review based on a non-exhaustive selection of pre...
Health information seeking behavior is a widely discussed topic in the field of information studies. However, the current study is about observing and evaluating the efficiency of health information seeking behavior through E-Health service and devices. The main reason that motivated the researcher to carry out the current research was high cost of...
In this paper, Qoros automotive manufacturing company, which is aiming at expanding their market in Europe, will be analyzed. In this case, the challenges that the aforementioned company has faced will be explained and some recommendations regarding marketing, strategy, production methods and other related issues based on competitive intelligence m...
Purpose Currently, organizations – must have a plan to achieve their future objectives. In this case, an information strategy facilitates greater success when planning for the future in any organization.
Research design, data, and methodology – The core objective of the project was to explore the information infrastructure of Walkbase in a discursi...
The aim of this article is to provide a comprehensive review on different theories and hypothesis in regard with achieving an optimal capital structure. Many researchers believed that capital structure includes share issuance, private investment, bank debt, business debts, leasing contracts, tax debt, retirement debt, deferred compensation for exec...
The aim of this paper is evaluating performance of investment companies that have had active portfolio management during 1383 to 1388 in Tehran stock exchange. In order to assess their performance, we used some selected Risk-Adjusted ratios with considering another measures likes the liquidity, size, turnover and being diversified in their portfoli...
Nowadays, organizational behavior has a closely relationship with culture and structure. Thus, when the organization made the strategies, they should be paid attention to these factors. In this paper first of all, we review the define of culture, structure and behavior. After that, we will study about the relationship between organizational culture...
Control levers is one of the control management system and increasing transparency approaches in the organization, such as corporate levers is self-focus on internal conflicts of interest among management, Shareholders and other stakeholders in the organization will be considered, as result, value creating is reformed on the organization. Control l...
This paper tried to analyze the performance of the investment companies listed in Tehran Stock Exchange that had active portfolio management from 2006 to 2010 by Sharp, Treynor, and Sortino ratios. For more profound study of their performances, this research used some of the measures, including turnover, liquidity, size and diversification of portf...
This study is an empirical analysis of the financing effect on the Capital Structure of the company. For this purpose and in terms of financing methods, first we have divided companies into two groups, including Corporations with much leverage in their capital structure and corporations with high stock issuance. Then we analyzed them by using the c...
Recent studies on improper management's decisions have made significant progress over the past half century. Most Researches present that progress management's decision on organization is rationalism and free of condition for example change of environment hasn't unfavorable effect on management decisions. Most of these studies are paid attention to...