Download or read book U S Health in International Perspective written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2013-04-12 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States is among the wealthiest nations in the world, but it is far from the healthiest. Although life expectancy and survival rates in the United States have improved dramatically over the past century, Americans live shorter lives and experience more injuries and illnesses than people in other high-income countries. The U.S. health disadvantage cannot be attributed solely to the adverse health status of racial or ethnic minorities or poor people: even highly advantaged Americans are in worse health than their counterparts in other, "peer" countries. In light of the new and growing evidence about the U.S. health disadvantage, the National Institutes of Health asked the National Research Council (NRC) and the Institute of Medicine (IOM) to convene a panel of experts to study the issue. The Panel on Understanding Cross-National Health Differences Among High-Income Countries examined whether the U.S. health disadvantage exists across the life span, considered potential explanations, and assessed the larger implications of the findings. U.S. Health in International Perspective presents detailed evidence on the issue, explores the possible explanations for the shorter and less healthy lives of Americans than those of people in comparable countries, and recommends actions by both government and nongovernment agencies and organizations to address the U.S. health disadvantage.

Download or read book Time Pressure And Environment Factors Influence written by Johnny Ch Lok and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-06-26 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, it divides two parts. First part explains how environment factor influences consumer behavioral change and second part explains how consumer time pressure factor influences their consumption behavioral change.In first part, it brings these questions: Can environment factors influence consumer behavior changes? How and why environment factors can influence consumer behavior changes suddenly? When the consumer is influenced to change his/her original consumption attitude or consumption choice desire, after the consumer can change his/her consumption desire later. Does how much serious of environment factors influence consumer behavior changes? Does it influence their consumption desire to change in any sudden time or identified time or in any consumption suitation ot identified consumption situation? In second part, it brings these questions? Does environment factor depend other factors to influence consumer behavior changes? e.g. time pressure feeling factor to the consumer, when one shirt shop has one large discount period, every shirt can be sold less 30% to 50% within this month. Then, it seems that one discount shirt purchase time pressure feeling to let shirt potentient buyers make any kinds of shirt purchase decision immediately when he/she stays in this shirt ship within this month. Also, it seems that this month's crowd environent in this shirt shop, this shirt shop's crowd environment can influence that they feel or believe all different kinds of this shop's shirts worth can let them to choose to buy to compare other shirt shops within this month. So, it seems that time pressure and environment factors both can influence consumers to make consumption choice behavior immediately. My readers can have more unforgetable memory to learn how and why environment factors can influence consumers behaviors after you read this book.In second part, it brings these cases to explain how consumer time psychological pressure to change their consumption behavior. I explain why and how time factor will bring some product or service to let customers feel time pressure negative emotion or positive emotion. In chapter one, I shall explain how and why Walt Disney theme entertainment park which need to concern long time queue will bring negative emotion to its visitors and how it attempt to solve this long time queue challenge to change their emotion as well as how and why it can apply short time space tourism entertainment facility to let visitors to feel that they can spend short time to catch rocket to go to space tourism. In chapter two, I shall indicate why and how short time cooking factor will be any taste of read cooking meals' main attractive factor to influence food consumers prefer to choose to buy them to replace the fresh uncooked food in supermarkets or food stores. In chapter three, I shall explain how any why long time pressure will influence how to change travellers' shopping behaviors. In chapter four, I shall explain how and why time pressure will influnce consumer behavior. In chapter five, I shall explain how and why airplane's long time air pollution will influence the frequent environment protection traveller change reduce their travelling times. This book is suitable to any readers have interest to research how and why long waiting or consumption time can bring positive or negative emotion to influence their consumption desire.

Download or read book The Science of Adolescent Risk Taking written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2011-02-25 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adolescence is a time when youth make decisions, both good and bad, that have consequences for the rest of their lives. Some of these decisions put them at risk of lifelong health problems, injury, or death. The Institute of Medicine held three public workshops between 2008 and 2009 to provide a venue for researchers, health care providers, and community leaders to discuss strategies to improve adolescent health.

Download or read book Routledge International Handbook of Consumer Psychology written by Cathrine V. Jansson-Boyd and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-11-18 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique handbook maps the growing field of consumer psychology in its increasingly global context. With contributions from over 70 scholars across four continents, the book reflects the cross-cultural and multidisciplinary character of the field. Chapters relate the key consumer concepts to the progressive globalization of markets in which consumers act and consumption takes place. The book is divided into seven sections, offering a truly comprehensive reference work that covers: The historical foundations of the discipline and the rise of globalization The role of cognition and multisensory perception in consumers’ judgements The social self, identity and well-being, including their relation to advertising Social and cultural influences on consumption, including politics and religion Decision making, attitudes and behaviorally based research Sustainable consumption and the role of branding The particularities of online settings in framing and affecting behavior The Routledge International Handbook of Consumer Psychology will be essential reading for anyone interested in how the perceptions, feelings and values of consumers interact with the decisions they make in relation to products and services in a global context. It will also be key reading for students and researchers across psychology and marketing, as well as professionals interested in a deeper understanding of the field.

Download or read book Neuroleadership written by Argang Ghadiri and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-01-26 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes you on a journey through the brain, its function and its impact on leadership. The young business field of neuroleadership is founded on the belief that understanding the brain can give leaders new and powerful insights into human behaviour and how to effectively tap into that knowledge to generate better returns in business. The book approaches the background, history, and major thinkers in the field, but also reassesses the fundamental concept of neuroleadership. The authors look into the fundamental basic needs of human beings, how they are represented in the neural networks, and how this manifests in motivational drives. The book also focuses explicitly on how impactful organisational tools can be from the viewpoint of the brain. By following this methodology, the reader will be able to use the knowledge of neuroscience at the workplace to better address individuals’ brains and hence tap into the full power of brains in business.

Download or read book Advances in Human Factors and Ergonomics in Healthcare and Medical Devices written by Jay Kalra and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-07-07 with total page 797 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is concerned with human factors and ergonomics research and developments in the design and use of systems and devices for effective and safe healthcare delivery. It reports on approaches for improving healthcare devices so that they better fit to people’s, including special population’s needs. It also covers assistive devices aimed at reducing occupational risks of health professionals as well as innovative strategies for error reduction, and more effective training and education methods for healthcare workers and professionals. Equal emphasis is given to digital technologies and to physical, cognitive and organizational aspects, which are considered in an integrated manner, so as to facilitate a systemic approach for improving the quality and safety of healthcare service. The book also includes a special section dedicated to innovative strategies for assisting caregivers’, patients’, and people’s needs during pandemic. Based on papers presented at the AHFE 2021 Conference on Human Factors and Ergonomics in Healthcare and Medical Devices, held virtually on 25–29 July, 2021, from USA, the book offers a timely reference guide to both researchers and healthcare professionals involved in the design of medical systems and managing healthcare settings, as well as to healthcare counselors and global health organizations.

Download or read book Consumer Behavior Time Pressure And Environment Factors written by Johnny Ch Lok and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-06-29 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How customer individual time psychological pressure and external environment factors can influence their consumption desire to be changed suddenly? Does it occur to any consumption environment or only comes identified consumption environment?

Download or read book How Environment Influences written by John Lok and published by . This book was released on 2022-05-12 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In first part, it brings these questions: Can environment factors influence consumer behavior changes? How and why environment factors can influence consumer behavior changes suddenly? When the consumer is influenced to change his/her original consumption attitude or consumption choice desire, after the consumer can change his/her consumption desire later. Does how much serious of environment factors influence consumer behavior changes? Does it influence their consumption desire to change in any sudden time or identified time or in any consumption suitation ot identified consumption situation? In second part, it brings these questions? Does environment factor depend other factors to influence consumer behavior changes? So, it seems that time pressure and environment factors both can influence consumers to make consumption choice behavior immediately. My readers can have more unforgetable memory to learn how and why environment factors can influence consumers behaviors after you read this book. In second part, it brings these cases to explain how consumer time psychological pressure to change their consumption behavior. I explain why and how time factor will bring some product or service to let customers feel time pressure negative emotion or positive emotion. This book is suitable to any readers have interest to research how and why long waiting or consumption time can bring positive or negative emotion to influence their consumption desire.

Download or read book Taming Uncertainty written by Ralph Hertwig and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2019-08-13 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the cognitive tools that the mind uses to grapple with uncertainty in the real world. How do humans navigate uncertainty, continuously making near-effortless decisions and predictions even under conditions of imperfect knowledge, high complexity, and extreme time pressure? Taming Uncertainty argues that the human mind has developed tools to grapple with uncertainty. Unlike much previous scholarship in psychology and economics, this approach is rooted in what is known about what real minds can do. Rather than reducing the human response to uncertainty to an act of juggling probabilities, the authors propose that the human cognitive system has specific tools for dealing with different forms of uncertainty. They identify three types of tools: simple heuristics, tools for information search, and tools for harnessing the wisdom of others. This set of strategies for making predictions, inferences, and decisions constitute the mind's adaptive toolbox. The authors show how these three dimensions of human decision making are integrated and they argue that the toolbox, its cognitive foundation, and the environment are in constant flux and subject to developmental change. They demonstrate that each cognitive tool can be analyzed through the concept of ecological rationality—that is, the fit between specific tools and specific environments. Chapters deal with such specific instances of decision making as food choice architecture, intertemporal choice, financial uncertainty, pedestrian navigation, and adolescent behavior.

Download or read book Ageing and Employment Policies Vieillissement et politiques de l emploi Australia 2005 written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2005-06-21 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report contains a survey of the main barriers to employment for older workers, an assessment of measures to overcome these barriers, and a set of policy recommendations for Australia.

Download or read book Taking Action Against Clinician Burnout written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2020-01-02 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Patient-centered, high-quality health care relies on the well-being, health, and safety of health care clinicians. However, alarmingly high rates of clinician burnout in the United States are detrimental to the quality of care being provided, harmful to individuals in the workforce, and costly. It is important to take a systemic approach to address burnout that focuses on the structure, organization, and culture of health care. Taking Action Against Clinician Burnout: A Systems Approach to Professional Well-Being builds upon two groundbreaking reports from the past twenty years, To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System and Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century, which both called attention to the issues around patient safety and quality of care. This report explores the extent, consequences, and contributing factors of clinician burnout and provides a framework for a systems approach to clinician burnout and professional well-being, a research agenda to advance clinician well-being, and recommendations for the field.

Download or read book The Effect of Information on Consumer and Market Behavior written by Andrew A. Mitchell and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: In order to understand how the market system provides information to buyers, the effect of information on consumer and market behavior is examined from the perspectives of economics, consumer psychology, and public policy. Economic analyses of information transmission and advertising are presented. Effects of different types of information on the behavior of firms, and information search strategies which consumers use to extract information from mass media advertisements are evaluated. Theories of information encoding and storage are described in terms of their implications for consumer research. The causes of information imperfections in local consumer markets (markets where different prices are charged for the same quality) are reviewed. Advertising regulation policy considerations are also examined. Consumer information systems for local services are discussed from the viewpoint of information needs and consumer patterns of information avoidance. (nm).

Download or read book Individual and Group Decision Making written by N. John Castellan and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea for this volume took root during a recent annual convention of the American Psychological Association. The contributors share a common vision of research in their particular area and have had an opportunity to debate and clarify their ideas. Taken as a whole, the fifteen chapters provide an exciting perspective of the field and form a basic set of readings for courses on individual and group decision making in a variety of disciplines. The coverage from basic laboratory research to complex applied group decision processes should challenge researchers and students to pursue the field of decision making as enthusiastic scientists and practitioners.

Download or read book Times of Convergence Technologies Across Learning Contexts written by Pierre Dillenbourg and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-09-08 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The European Conference on Technology-Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL 2008) was the third event of a series that started in 2006. The two first editions were organized by Pro- Learn (http://www.prolearn-project.org/), a European Network of Excellence. In 2008, several members of Kaleidoscope, the other European Network of Excellence (http://www.noe-kaleidoscope.org/pub/), joined as co-chair, committee members, reviewers and authors. These two networks are no longer funded, but our aim was to turn EC-TEL into a sustainable series of high-quality events and thereby to contribute to the scientific landscape of technology-enhanced learning. A new network, named STELLAR, will be launched in 2009, with members from both existing networks as well as new members and will support the future editions of this conference. The scope of EC-TEL 2008 covered the different fields of learning technologies: e- cation, psychology, computer science. The contributions in this volume address the - sign of innovative environments, computational models and architectures, results of empirical studies on socio-cognitive processes, field studies regarding the use of te- nologies in context, collaborative processes, pedagogical scenarios, reusable learning objects and emerging objects, groups and communities, learning networks, interaction analysis, metadata, personalization, collaboration scripts, learning adaptation, collabo- tive environments, resources, tangible tools, as well as learning management systems.

Download or read book ABC of Occupational and Environmental Medicine written by David Snashall and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-11-05 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition of Occupational and Environmental Medicine concentrates more on the newer kinds of occupational disease including those (like “RSI” and pesticide poisoning) where exposure and effects are difficult to understand. There is specific emphasis on work, health and wellbeing, with links to public health, health promotion, the value of work, disabled people at work, the aging workforce, vocational rehabilitation, evidence based practice, and further chapters on the health effects of climate change and of occupational health and safety in relation to migration and terrorism.

Download or read book Quality Assurance for Chemistry and Environmental Science written by Günther Meinrath and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-09-18 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Metrology and its applications e.g. in chemical or food analysis or in environmental monitoring are entering our daily life. This book provides a basic overview over the relevant metrological concepts like traceability, ISO uncertainties or cause-and-effect diagrams. The applications described in great detail range from progression-of-error type evaluation of the measurement uncertainty budget to complex applications like pH measurement or speciation calculations for aqueous solutions. The consequences of a measurement uncertainty concept for chemical data are outlined for geochemical modeling applied to transport in the subsurface and to nuclear waste disposal. Special sections deal with the deficits of existing thermodynamic data for these applications and with the current position of chemical metrology in respect to other quality assurance measures, e.g. ISO 900x, GLP, European and U.S.-American standards.

Download or read book Product packaging as tool to demand a price premium Does packaging enhance consumers value perception to justify a price premium written by Christoph Breetz and published by diplom.de. This book was released on 2014-03-01 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study addresses the question of the impact of packaging to demand a price premium leveraging the example of retailer brand premium products in the food segment in Germany. Product tiering is a pricing structure that is commonly used by producers, in which consumers are segmented by willingness to pay for specific (added) product benefits. This is a way of maximizing utility for both consumers and producers, and is commonly already leveraged by producers of branded products, but lately also by retailer brands, especially to enable growth outside the value tier. This research uses a survey across grocery purchase decision makers in Germany to identify the relationship of packaging and willingness to pay across a sample of retailer brand Tier 1, Tier 2 and Tier 3 products as well as a branded product in four different grocery categories. The intent is to answer whether i) packaging currently justifies the premium price of retailer brand tier 1 products compared to other product tiers, ii) packaging justifies the tier 1 retailer brand price premium, and iii) demographics influence the willingness to pay a premium price.