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Hospitals rely on ethics consultants to help navigate difficult decisions about life support, consent and a patient’s wishes when the path forward is unclear.
Property tax reform in Detroit could boost homeownership and attract new residents and businesses.
Helping patients navigate disability outside the clinic is critical to rehabilitation for physical conditions. People with psychiatric conditions can benefit from the same philosophy.
New Zealand compares well on global measures of freedom, happiness and transparency. But rankings in some important areas, including climate, drag the averages down.
Relationship quality was consistently lower for people with PMDD and their partners.
Too often, patients with chronic kidney disease get diagnosed too late – if at all. Addressing risk factors early can stave off the disease’s worst effects.
New Zealand generally compares well on global measures of freedom, happiness and transparency. But rankings in some important areas have been sliding for years now.
Many people feel unsafe in their homes, and when walking in their neighbourhood during the day or at night.
Assessing a patient’s autonomy can be more difficult when mental illness is the main source of their suffering.
Focusing on metrics that measure a city’s quality of life could be detrimental to its long-term sustainable development.
This is the first national wellbeing framework. Fifty indicators are used to measure wellbeing under five themes: how healthy, secure, sustainable, cohesive and prosperous we are.
A growing number of people are finding out they are autistic in adulthood.
To focus on sustainable development goals, platforms need to change from being exclusively focused on profits and value appropriation to perceiving themselves as public goods.
What research tells us about what to keep and what to cut back on.
To understand the perceptions of TB patients about their quality of life, it’s useful to have a comparison with “apparently healthy” people.
Human behaviors shift. Policies change. New technology arrives and evolves. All those changes and more are hard to predict, and they affect tomorrow’s costs.
Health economists have tools for weighing up the benefits and costs of medical interventions. And they aren’t perfect.
Over the coming decade a new study will put citizens and communities at the centre of efforts to reimagine prosperity and define what constitutes a good quality of life.
Social relationships are generally good for mental health, but too much social activity can backfire, leading to fatigue and feelings of guilt when there isn’t enough time to nurture relationships.
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Professor of Law, University of Waikato
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Assistant Professor, Black Hills State University, Fordham University
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Assistant Professor, Palliative Physician, Queen's University, Ontario
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Assistant Clinical Lecturer in Occupational Therapy, University of Alberta
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Director UCL International Disability Research Centre, UCL
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Senior Lecturer in Economics, RMIT University Vietnam
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Principal Research Associate in Epidemiology and Public Health, UCL
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Professor of Law, New York Law School
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Professor of Economics, Fordham University
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Researcher of urban & cultural studies, Gauteng City-Region Observatory
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Professor of Deaf Education, University of Tennessee
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Professeur agrégé, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)
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Principal Researcher, University of the Witwatersrand
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Senior researcher, urban sustainability transitions, environmental governance and resilience, University of the Western Cape