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Optimal lockdown and social welfare. [PDF]
J Popul Econ, 2022 This paper examines the robustness of the optimal lockdown strategy to the postulated social welfare criterion. We show that utilitarianism can, under some conditions, imply a COVID-19 variant of Parfit's (1984) Repugnant Conclusion: for any (interior) lockdown with life periods of low quality, there must be a stricter lockdown that is regarded as ...
Pestieau P, Ponthiere G.
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Algorithmic monoculture and social welfare. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2021 SignificanceAlgorithmic monoculture is a growing concern in the use of algorithms for high-stakes screening decisions in areas such as employment and lending. If many firms use the same algorithm, even if it is more accurate than the alternatives, the resulting “monoculture” may be susceptible to correlated failures, much as a monocultural system is in
Kleinberg J, Raghavan M.
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A systematic review of studies on the factors affecting the quality of life in the general population of Iran [PDF]
Savād-i Salāmat, 2021 Background and Objective: The quality-of-life index is like a graph that describes the situation of all people living in a region or country and includes economic, social, and human variables.
Asieh Namazi +4 more
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Robotics for social welfare [PDF]
Journal of Accessibility and Design for All, 2012 Supported by developments in the field of social robotics, virtual worlds and ICT tools it is possible to build new solutions in health and welfare. Two projects are described in this article. They are intended to improve efficiency and quality of current therapeutic procedures.
Fernández Cossío, Lucía +2 more
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Explanatory Model of Voluntary Childlessness among Iranian Couples in Tehran: A Grounded Theory Approach [PDF]
Iranian Journal of Medical Sciences, 2019 Background: Global and Iranian statistics indicate a rise in the newly emerging phenomenon of voluntary childlessness as a permanent status among couples. Childlessness is one of the main challenges of modern society.
Seyed Ebrahim Ahmadi +3 more
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Costing the outpatient rehabilitation services: time-driven activity-based costing approach
Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation, 2022 Background Considering the importance of healthcare services costing in resource allocation, the aim of this study is to calculate the cost of rehabilitation services in an outpatient rehabilitation clinic in Tehran, Iran. Methods The data for this study
Farzaneh Mohammadpour +3 more
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Journal of Rehabilitation, 2021 Objective: The re-entry of offenders to the community after their imprisonment is a sensitive and important stage and should always be considered by governmental and non-governmental organizations.
Sara Noruzi +5 more
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Contextual and Individual Determinants of Mental Health: A Cross-sectional Multilevel Study in Tehran, Iran [PDF]
Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, 2020 Objectives Our aim was to answer the following questions: (1) Can mental health variance be partitioned to individual and higher levels (e.g., neighborhood and district); (2) How much (as a percentage) do individual-level determinants explain the ...
Homeira Sajjadi +5 more
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Social determinants of adherence to COVID-19 preventive guidelines: a comprehensive review [PDF]
Osong Public Health and Research Perspectives, 2021 Adherence to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) preventive guidelines (ACPG) is an important strategy to control the COVID-19 pandemic effectively.
Zahra Jorjoran Shushtari +7 more
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Time-Driven Activity Based Costing of Speech Therapy in a Small-Scale Rehabilitation Clinic
Iranian Journal of Public Health, 2021 No ...
Farzaneh Mohammadpour +3 more
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