Goal motives, well-being, and physical health: An integrative model.
The present paper proposes an integrative model on the motivational determinants and health consequences of two forms of well-being (i.e., happiness and self-realization). This ...
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Social Evaluation of Health Care Versus Personal Evaluation of Health States:<i>Evidence on the Validity of Four Health-state Scaling Instruments Using Norwegian and Australian Surveys</i>
Abstract In most of the cost-utility literature, quality-adjusted life-year (QALY) gains are interpreted as a measure of social value. Given this interpretation, the validity of...
Flammability dynamics in the Australian Alps
Abstract Forests of the Australian Alps ( SE Australia) are considered some of the most vulnerable to climate change in the country, with ecosystem collapse considered likely fo...
Blood Pressure Trajectories in the 20 Years Before Death
Mean SBP and DBP decreased for more than a decade before death in patients dying at 60 years and older. These BP decreases are not simply attributable to age, treatment of hyper...
THE COST-BENEFIT APPROACH
Journal Article THE COST-BENEFIT APPROACH Get access ALAN WILLIAMS ALAN WILLIAMS Department of Economics University of York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Acad...
Epidemiologic Methods in Physical Activity Studies
Abstract There is a large body of scientific evidence—much of this coming from epidemiologic studies—clearly documenting the benefits of physical activity for better health and ...
Designing Medical and Educational Intervention Studies: A review of some alternatives to conventional randomized controlled trials
The advantages and limitations of RCT designs are discussed, and a range of alternative designs for medical and educational intervention studies considered. Designs selected are...
Symptom Frequency and Severity in Patients with Metastatic or Locally Recurrent Lung Cancer: A Prospective Study Using the Lung Cancer Symptom Scale in a Community Hospital
Patients with advanced lung cancer suffer frequent and severe symptoms that worsen in the final months of life. The appropriate timing and combination of radiotherapy and chemot...
Cost-effectiveness of Whole-Body CT Screening
Even with assumptions favorable to whole-body CT, implementation of onetime screening would not be cost-effective compared with currently funded medical interventions; follow-up...
Any casualties in the clash of randomised and observational evidence?
Randomised controlled trials and observational studies are often seen as mutually exclusive, if not opposing, methods of clinical research. Two recent reports, however, identifi...
Genetic linkage between hereditary hemochromatosis and HLA.
A large Mormon pedigree of a proband with hemochromatosis was studied, using transferrin saturation as the quantitative phenotypic trait. The analysis indicated that the inherit...