Good Amenity to Life

Valuing scenic amenity using life satisfaction data

The life satisfaction approach has recently emerged as a new technique in the suite of options available to non-market valuation practitioners. Employing data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) survey and Geographic Information Systems (GIS), this paper examines the influence of scenic amenity on the life satisfaction of residents of South East Queensland (SEQ),...

Breastfeeding in the Hospital is a Good Start to Life

در ماه مارس ۱۹۹۲ از طریق یونیسف و سازمان بهداشت جهانی طرح ابتکاری بیمارستان دوستدار کودک (Baby friendly hospital)، به منظور ترویج تغذیه با شیر مادر ، راه اندازی شد. در این بیمارستانها تدابیری جهت بالا بودن سطح سلامت و بهبود وضعیت نوزادان تازه متولد شده اتخاذ گردید. اولین متمم این طرح ابتکاری، تشویق جهت تغذیه نوزادان با شیر مادر بود که برای نشان دادن این موضوع، نظامنامه بین المللی از طرف WHO به ...

Good health adds life to years.

A good life

Following a career in science involves long hours and hard work, but as Eve Marder explains in the first of a series of columns, it can also be extremely rewarding.

What makes a life good?

Two studies examined folk concepts of the good life. Samples of college students (N = 104) and community adults (N = 264) were shown a career survey ostensibly completed by a person rating his or her occupation. After reading the survey, participants judged the desirability and moral goodness of the respondent's life, as a function of the amount of happiness, meaning in life, and wealth experie...