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Concept Analysis of Quality of Life
Dimensions Of Critical Care Nursing, 1991The term "quality of life" is being used to evaluate ethical cases in health care literature and practice, yet rarely is a precise definition of the term given. It remains an abstract and ambiguous phrase. This author clarifies the concept quality of life through concept analysis methods using critical care scenarios.
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"The Sanctity of Life": An Analysis of a Concept
Annals of Internal Medicine, 1973Abstract The concept of the sanctity of life has been frequently appealed to but seldom examined. In much of biomedical ethics it is treated as a basic principle.
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Quality of life: a concept analysis
Journal of Advanced Nursing, 1993Quality of life (QOL) is a phrase which was first used shortly after the Second World War and has, since then, been overused and infrequently defined A concept analysis of QOL is presented to clarify the concept for further use The process for concept analysis developed by Walker & Avant is employed Quality of life is found to be very complex, and ...
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Life Fatigue: A Critical Analysis
The American Journal of Geriatric PsychiatryIn recent years, euthanasia has been decriminalized or legalized in several countries. The debate on whether to legalize such a practice is open in many places and is a topic that arouses great controversy. Euthanasia has been presented as a response to situations of advanced, incurable, or irreversible disease, or situations that cause intolerable ...
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Analysis of Risks to Life and Limb
Operations Research, 1980Industrial safety, environmental and health planning, energy policy, and many other areas of public and private management require the comparison of risks to life and limb and the allocation of resources to competing risk-reducing activities. Several issues that must be taken into consideration in evaluating alternatives affecting life and limb are ...
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The Life Course: Models and Analysis
1999The life course perspective has proven to be extremely useful in studies of social and demographic change. In this perspective, life is viewed as an evolving process and demographic events are milestones or critical transitions. Major research questions include (a) how people organize their lives around these life events, and (b) what that means at the
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Life Reflection: A Social–Cognitive Analysis of Life Review
Review of General Psychology, 2001Life review and reminiscence are 2 concepts used to describe the phenomenon of people reflecting on their lives. Rather than used synonymously, these 2 concepts need to be distinguished on the basis of a social–cognitive process analysis. For that purpose, life reflection is introduced as a new term.
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Analysis of Life Tables with Grouping and Withdrawals
Biometrics, 1979A number of individuals is observed at the beginning of a period. At the end of the period the number is surviving, the number who have died and the number who have withdrawn are noted. From these three numbers it is required to estimate the death rate for the period.
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An Analysis of Volitional Life
Nature, 1948ONE of the great difficulties of pure introspective psychology has always been the function of the will. The processes of motivation in the human being are complex and elusive if only consciousness is to be considered. Indeed, the exponents of dynamic psychology have suggested that this is due to the strength of the unconscious, and have propounded the
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Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting, 2000
This paper describes several approaches for Life Cycle Analysis, suggesting the integrated use of then for a better understanding of any process. Following a kind of autism, men are always understood as being outside of these processes. We are concerned with manufacturability, zero emission, and others, but not with the consequences of the work on men,
Mirian Loureiro Fialhao +2 more
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This paper describes several approaches for Life Cycle Analysis, suggesting the integrated use of then for a better understanding of any process. Following a kind of autism, men are always understood as being outside of these processes. We are concerned with manufacturability, zero emission, and others, but not with the consequences of the work on men,
Mirian Loureiro Fialhao +2 more
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