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Recognising & assessing positive welfare: developing positive indicators for use in welfare assessment [PDF]

, 2012
The use of positive welfare indicators: a proactive approach. Welfare assessment methods have developed greatly over recent decades with regards to both behavioural and physiological indicators.
McCormick, Wanda D
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Cost-effectiveness of portable-automated ABR for universal neonatal hearing screening in India

Frontiers in Public Health
The World Health Organization considers Universal Neonatal Hearing Screening (UNHS) essential to global public health. Rashtriya Bal Swasthya Karyakram has included newborn hearing screening in India since 2013.
Krushna Chandra Sahoo, Rinshu Dwivedi, Ramesh Athe, Akshay Chauhan, Shalu Jain, Rakesh Kumar Sahoo, Debdutta Bhattacharya, Kavitha Rajsekhar, Sanghamitra Pati   +8 more
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Characteristics of multiple-diseased elderly in Swedish hospital care and clinical guidelines

International Journal of Ageing and Later Life, 2009
In Sweden, an expected growing gap between available resources and greater potential for medical treatment has brought evidence-based guidelines and priority setting into focus.
Niklas Ekerstad, Annika Edberg, Per Carlsson   +2 more
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The welfare and access to veterinary health services of mules working the mountain trails in the Gorkha region, Nepal

Austral Journal of Veterinary Sciences, 2023
Working equid populations are mainly present in low to middle-income countries, their work directly contributing to the lives of people reliant on their presence.
Tamlin Watson, Laura M. Kubasiewicz, Caroline Nye, Sajana Thapa, Natasha Chamberlain, Faith A. Burden   +5 more
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Official and private animal welfare inspectors’ perception of their own on-site inspections

Frontiers in Veterinary Science
The presence of a trustworthy and effective animal welfare control system is important both for animal welfare and for public and consumer trust. The inspectors’ main task, regardless of whether they are official inspectors or private auditors, is to ...
Frida Lundmark Hedman, Ivana R. Ewerlöf, Ivana R. Ewerlöf, Jenny Frössling, Jenny Frössling, Charlotte Berg   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Life-Cycle Unemployment, Retirement and Parametric Pension Reform [PDF]

This paper investigates the consequences of pension reform for life-cycle unemployment and retirement. We find that (i) improving actuarial fairness in pension assessment not only boosts old age participation but also reduces unemployment among prime age
Fisher, Walter, Keuschnigg, Christian
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Incorporation of conventional animal welfare assessment techniques into organic certification and farming [PDF]

, 2004
Providing assurances to consumers on the adherence to certain animal welfare-related standards is an important element of organic and farm assurance schemes.
Leeb, Christine, Main, David, Whay, Becky   +2 more
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Challenges in Assessing Fish Welfare [PDF]

ILAR Journal, 2009
Descriptions of feeling states in nonhuman animals have relied on indirect evidence from empirical data. Assumptions that fish do not experience suffering lack evidence and in fact contradict a large body of indirect scientific evidence and ethical concern.
openaire   +3 more sources

Correction: Mota-Rojas et al. Controversial Topics in Animal Welfare in Latin America: A Focus on the Legislation Surrounding the Human-Companion Animal Relationship and Animals Used for Recreational Practices. Animals 2023, 13, 1463

Animals
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Daniel Mota-Rojas, Ana Strappini, Alexandra L. Whittaker, Marcelo Ghezzi, Cristiane Gonçalves Titto, Néstor Calderón-Maldonado, Patricia Mora-Medina, Adriana Domínguez-Oliva, Jocelyn Gómez-Prado, Ismael Hernández-Ávalos, Nancy José-Pérez, Alejandro Casas-Alvarado, Agustín Orihuela   +12 more
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The use of animal-based health and welfare parameters – what is it all about? [PDF]

, 2008
Organic farming is characterized by several goals that are expressed in daily practices and in standards. Some of the important goals for organic production systems are naturalness, harmony on all levels of production, local recycling of resources, and ...
Winckler, Christoph
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