Student Housing: Trends, Preferences And Needs

Preferences, needs and QALYs.

Quality Adjusted Life Years (QALYs) have become a household word among health economists. Their use as a means of comparing the value of health programmes and medical interventions has stirred up controversy in the medical profession and the academic community. In this paper, I argue that QALY analysis does not adequately take into account the differentiated nature of the health state values it...

Ranking Needs Preferences of Iranian Seafarers

People are motivated according to their needs. These needs vary according to the time and based on various situations. Identifying and assessing human needs are the first and vital step in determining the amount of its impact on work and activity. According to these facts, the aim of this research is to identify the needs of the Iranian seafarers on board merchant ships. It also tries to spec...

Housing and health: Housing for people with special needs.

The elderly There is no magical age at which one becomes "old," and any special housing needs are never a consequence of age alone but rather of accompanying financial, mental, or physical disability. The old include some of our poorest, most vulnerable citizens-in 1986 a fifth of single pensioners lived in houses needing more than £1000 worth of urgent repairs to the external fabric.' But ther...

Considering Student Personal Needs and Preferences and Accessible Learning Objects to Adapt Moodle Learning Platform

This paper provides information about the standards that govern accessibility of learning objects, presents an example of an accessible learning object and shows the procedure to operate the Moodle learning platform which has been adapted by the authors to the preferences and needs of the students. The way to operate the Moodle adapted platform takes place in three phases. In the first phase, t...

Housing Preferences of Older Consumers