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Cost of Production Loss for Long-term Disability due to Road Crashes
Traffic accidents leave lifelong after-effects and if the victim is disabled, they produce a production loss due to the differential in income that will be lost.
J. Iñaki De la Peña +2 more
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Procreative Generosity: Why We Should Not Have Children
We should not have children because (i) we have no child-regarding reasons to do so, (ii) we have child-regarding reasons not to do so, and (iii) although we have other-regarding reasons to do so, these reasons are not decisive. Objections to (i) include
Matti Häyry
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When we talk about anthropological and social problems, we usually methodologically assume an epistemically stable structure of thought “human-family-society”.
Kazimierz Rynkiewicz
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Valuing life over the life cycle [PDF]
Adjusting the valuation of life along the (i) person-specific (age, health, wealth) and (ii) mortality risk-specific (beneficial or detrimental, temporary or permanent changes) dimensions is relevant in prioritizing healthcare interventions. These adjustments are provided by solving a life cycle model of consumption, leisure and health choices and the ...
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Menelusuri Kearifan Kehidupan dalam Cerita Rakyat Rejang Lebong: Analisis Nilai-nilai yang Diungkap
The lack of knowledge of the community and the younger generation about folklore in their own area makes the life values contained in them just get buried. This study aims to describe the values of life in the folklore of Rejang Lebong. This research is
Ifnaldi Ifnaldi +2 more
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Philosophy of Striving and Making a Living in Institutions of Traditional Studies
Institutions of traditional learning (pondok) are often considered as places to acquire the sciences of the hereafter. On the other hand, the statement seems to illustrate that the students brought up in the institution are not concerned with worldly ...
Khairul Nizam Zainal Badri
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Heterogeneity in the Value of Life [PDF]
We develop a numerical life-cycle model - with choice over consumption and leisure, stochastic mortality and labor income processes, and calibrated to U.S. data - to characterize willingness to pay (WTP) for mortality risk reduction. Our theoretical framework can explain many empirical findings in this literature, including an inverted-U life-cycle WTP
Aldy, Joseph, Smyth, Seamus J
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The Mediator Role of Meaning in Life in the Life Quality of Patients With Chronic Heart Failure
Summary: Purpose: Heart failure (HF) is a highly recurrent disease with a high sudden death rate and a substantial influence on disease-related quality of life (QOL). Social support, symptom distress, care needs, and meaning in life all have significant
Min-Hui Liu, Chao-Hung Wang, Ai-Fu Chiou
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That life has value is a tenet eliciting all but universal agreement, be it amongst philosophers, policy-makers, or the general public. Yet, when it comes to its employment in practice, especially in the context of policies which require the balancing of different moral choices—for example in health care, foreign aid, or animal rights related decisions—
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Human dignity, speciesism, and the value of life
This paper deals with a discussion concerning the value of life. Specifically, it addresses the idea of speciesism, a term coined by Peter Singer, whereby human life is endowed with special significance because of its membership in the species Homo ...
Grzegorz Hołub
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