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The purpose of this paper is to scrutinize and classify the literature linking gaming for healthcare and management phenomena. An objective bibliometric analysis is conducted, supported by subjective assessments based on studies focused on the linking of gaming for healthcare and management fields. From the analysis and its evaluation, three clusters depicting literature linking gaming for healthcare and management phenomena are showed: management and governance public/private healthcare system; gaming and knowledge/strategic management; management health/medical insurance system using game theory. Moreover, the study shows the limits of existing literature on this topic and proposes future research topics. This is one of the first attempts to comprehend the research stream which, over time, has paved the way to the intersection between gaming for healthcare and management fields.

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The pigment spectra and the size structure of phytoplankton communities are considered as informative tools to assess the water quality in the context of the Descriptor 5 (Eutrophication) of the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (2008/56/EC). In this paper we analyse the phytoplankton assemblages in three sectors of the Adriatic Sea, the northernmost part of the Mediterranean, characterized by different trophic conditions and by variables highly correlated. Our main aim is to assess the environmental status of coastal waters by analysing the dependence of the Fp-ratio (index of trophic status by pigment signatures, Claustre in Limnol Oceanogr 39(5):1206–1210, 1994), from the total biomass and the cell size structure of the phytoplankton communities (Chlorophyll a), the salinity and the temperature of the Adriatic Sea via some variants of the partial least squares regression model (Durand in Chemometr Intell Lab Syst 58:235–246, 2001; Lombardo et al. in J Chemometr 23(12):605–617, 2009). The findings of the analysis confirm the utility of the Fp-ratio as indicator of the trophic status of the coastal waters. © 2016, Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht