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Streaming services (music, movies) via the Internet has changed the entertainment habits of Vietnamese significantly and has a huge potential to develop. The penetration rate of video streaming services was 5.2% and it has been rising to reach roughly 7.4% by 2025. The competition in this service is also increasing with the participation of many domestic and international competitors, such as iFlix, Apple TV, FPT Play, and Zing TV. The purpose of this study is to explore the values of users when subscribing to one streaming service. The research context employs Netflix service provider to collect data with the following objectives: (1) to identify attributes of Netflix from the perceptions of users; (2) to identify the links between these attributes and personal values of users through consequences; and (3) to propose managerial implications for streaming service providers to attract more subscribers. The paper employs soft-laddering interviews to collect data from 24 respondents and is based on means-end chain theory. The research findings have explored 17 Attributes (A), 29 Consequences (C), and 08 Values (V). The extended association pattern technique APT is used to analyze data and Hierarchical Value Map (HVM) is constructed to show all A-C-V linkages. Finally, managerial implications are proposed to service providers to improve their services.

Background: Monitoring political and social determinants of delayed or forgone care due to cost is necessary to evaluate efforts to reduce racial and ethnic disparities in access to care. Our objective was to examine the extent to which state Medicaid expansion decisions and personal household income may be associated with individual-level racial and ethnic disparities in delayed or forgone care due to cost, at baseline, before the implementation of the Affordable Care Act., Methods: We used 2012 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System survey data to examine racial and ethnic differences in delayed or forgone care due to cost in states that do and do not plan Medicaid expansion. We examined personal household income as a social factor that could contribute to racial and ethnic disparities in delayed or forgone care., Results: We found that personal income differences were strongly related to disparities in delayed or forgone care in places with and without plans to expand Medicaid. In addition, while delayed or forgone care disparities between non-Hispanic whites and non-Hispanic blacks were lowest in places with plans to expand Medicaid access, disparities between non-Hispanic whites and Hispanics did not differ by state Medicaid expansion plans., Conclusions: As access to insurance improves for diverse groups, health systems must develop innovative strategies to overcome social determinants of health, including income inequities, as barriers to accessing care for Hispanic and non-Hispanic blacks. Additional efforts may be needed to ensure Hispanic groups achieve the benefits of investments in health care access.

Objective: Patterns of fat distribution are heavily influenced by psychological stress, sex, and among women, by menopause status. Emerging evidence suggests the lack of perceived neighborhood safety due to crime may contribute to psychological stress and obesity among exposed residents. Our objective is to determine if perceived neighborhood safety is associated with abdominal adiposity among African-American men and women, and among pre- and postmenopausal women in the Jackson Heart Study., Design and Methods: We examined associations between perceived neighborhood safety, fat distribution, and other individual-level covariates among Jackson Heart Study participants (N = 2,881). Abdominal adiposity was measured via computed tomography scans measuring the volumes of visceral, subcutaneous and total adipose tissue. We also measured body mass index (BMI), and waist circumference. Multivariable regression models estimated associations between perceived neighborhood safety, adiposity, and covariates by sex and menopause status., Results: Adjusting for all covariates, women who strongly disagreed their neighborhood was safe from crime had a higher BMI compared to women who felt safe [Std B 0.083 95% CI (0.010, 0.156)]. Premenopausal women who felt most unsafe had higher BMI, waist circumference, and volumes of visceral and total adipose tissue than those who felt safe [Std B 0.160 (0.021, 0.299), Std B 0.142 (0.003, 0.280), Std B 0.150 (0.014, 0.285), Std B 0.154 (0.019, 0.290), respectively]. We did not identify associations between neighborhood safety and adiposity among men and postmenopausal women., Conclusions: Our data suggest that abdominal adipose tissue distribution patterns are associated with perceived neighborhood safety in some groups, and that patterns may differ by sex and menopause status, with most associations observed among pre-menopausal women. Further research is needed to elucidate whether there are causal mechanisms underlying sex and menopause-status differences that may mediate associations between perceived safety and abdominal adiposity and potential protective factors that may modify this risk.