Irrational homeowners? How aesthetics and heritage values influence thermal retrofit decisions in the United Kingdom

When and how aesthetics influences financial decisions

We observe the influence of aesthetic design on consumer behavior involving financial products—an area where financial decision-makers say they do not take aesthetics into account. In a series of three studies we find that the look of a document in hypothetical investment decisions impacts stock valuation and behavior in some but not all situations. Specifically, our results show that calling a...

Public Spending on Health Service and Policy Research in Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States: A Modest Proposal

Health services and policy research (HSPR) represent a multidisciplinary field which integrates knowledge from health economics, health policy, health technology assessment, epidemiology, political science among other fields, to evaluate decisions in health service delivery. Health service decisions are informed by evidence at the clinical, organizational, and policy level, levels with distinct...

How are homeowners associations capitalized into property values?☆

STI services in the United Kingdom: how shall we cope?

G enitourinary medicine (GUM) services are consistently overstretched. 2 At St Thomas’ Hospital, and at our neighbour Kings College Hospital, the GUM service runs as an open access clinic (seeing the majority of patients without an appointment). The time to be seen in these clinics is frequently more than 3 hours and 4.5 hours, respectively. This is in the context of a local and national increa...

How general practice is funded in the United Kingdom.

Division of Community Health Sciences: General Practice Section, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. David P Weller, FRACGP, MPH, PhD, Professor of General Practice. Department of Health Sciences, University of York, York, UK. Alan Maynard, DSc, FAMS, MFPHM, Professor of Health Economics. David Weller holds the James Mackenzie Chair of General Practice at the University of Edinbur...