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Exploring the perception of quality of life in urban daily commuting for sustainable urban transport in Bangkok, Thailand
Quality of life (QoL) in daily travel is increasing in popularity as a research topic since transportation infrastructures and services are...
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The impact of reducing formal care benefits on caregivers’ well-being: evidence from Japan
This study examines the impact of reducing formal care benefits on the well-being of informal caregivers, contributing to the ongoing discourse about...
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Improvements in Health and the Organization and Development of Health Care and Health Insurance Markets
This chapter describes the gains in health in the twentieth century and the development of the markets of health care and health insurance. It first... -
Navigating Epidemics: the Interplay of Risk Perception, Information Diversity, and Healthy Eating Behaviors During the COVID-19 Pandemic
COVID-19 has reshaped the global landscape, influencing various aspects of daily life, including dietary choices. This study investigates the complex...
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Transforming Sectors: The Health Case
This chapter uses the example of e-Health for sector-wide transformation. It covers the key components of the e-Health system and the challenges to... -
From Classroom to Screen: Analyzing the Mechanisms Sha** E-Learning Benefits Amidst COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic has reached global proportions, leading to significant shifts in societal norms, including the adoption of online education as...
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Effect of a brief intervention on respondents’ subjective perception of time and discount rates
Time discounting is a fundamental characteristic of human decision-making. In general, the literature finds that individuals with lower discount...
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Public Health Approach to Outdoor Urban Health
Recent years of the Covid-19 pandemic have seen a proportional increase in the amount of time we spend in our homes each day. In spite of this, urban... -
Underlying dimensions of benefit and risk perception and their effects on people’s acceptance of conditionally/fully automated vehicles
Automated vehicles (AVs) have garnered increasing attention since they have the potential to dramatically reshape our lives in the near future. At...
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Air pollution and perception-based averting behaviour in the **chuan mining area, China
This paper presents a simultaneous equation, knowledge and perception-based averting behavior model of health risk caused by air pollution, with...
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Pensions and Other Liabilities: The Benefits of Disclosure and Management
Non-debt liabilities (mainly public sector employee pensions) represent an important part of the government balance sheet, and in some cases exceed... -
Public perception of ecosystem and social services produced by Sardinia extensive dairy sheep farming systems
Dairy sheep farming systems provide a great range of ecosystem services (ESs) and social services (SSs). These are Agro-pastoral Secondary Outputs...
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Socio-legal Analysis of the Impact of Food Insecurity and Hunger on the Right to Health of Urban Poor Living in the State of Gujarat
Despite the socio-economic development, food insecurity and malnutrition are two evils found unexpectedly high around the globe hampering one of the... -
Does moderate weight loss affect subjective health perception in obese individuals? Evidence from field experimental data
This paper analyzes whether moderate weight reduction improves subjective health perception in obese individuals. Besides simple regression models,...
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Media and Health Outcomes
This chapter takes stock of the research that studies the relationship between mass media campaigns and behavioral outcomes that have an impact on... -
The Impact of COVID-19 on Health and Care Workers
This chapter uses a health labor market lens to examine the impact of COVID-19 on health workers, as well as relevant policy levers. It compiles a... -
Discounting Long-Term Job-Related Health Risks in the Context of Indian Workers
Discount rate plays a very important role in cost–benefit analysis of environmental, health and occupational safety policies. Since resources are...
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Food and Health: Behavioral Economics and Response to Intervention
Food consumption meets each person’s immediate need for dietary energy each day, with foods selected in pursuit of various goals such as taste and... -
The Health Case for Basic Income
A large body of evidence indicates the importance of upstream determinants to health. Basic Income has been suggested as an upstream intervention... -
Conditional Cash Transfers and Health
For the past two and a half decades, many develo** countries have experienced greater economic and institutional stability that has allowed them to...