Background-Sudden cardiac death (SCD) in children is a rare but devastating event. Experts

A premature death unexpectedly brings a life and a career to their end, leading to substantial welfare losses. We study the retirement decision in an economy with risky lifetime, and compare the laissezfaire with egalitarian social optima. We consider two social objectives: (1) the maximin on expected lifetime welfare (ex ante), allowing for a compensation for unequal life expectancies; (2) the...

Professor Hinton is a psychiatrist who has made careful studies of the reactions of dying people, the awareness they have that they are dying, and the ways in which their doctors and nurses may help to bring them solace. His original work is deservedly much esteemed. It has lost nothing by presentation in this volume together with additional information on the circumstances, customs and attitud...

Background—Sudden death in sport is rare, but when it occurs the eVects are devastating. There have not been any reports to date describing the frequency and causes of sudden death in sport in the Republic of Ireland. Aim—To describe the incidence, possible causes, associated factors, and pathological findings in people who died while exercising in the Republic of Ireland in the 10 year period ...

The 12 million people working in American agriculture are still without protection against the personal causes of insecurity. No program to meet the risks of illness, accident, disability, old age, and premature death has yet been provided for them. When the principal breadwinner of a farm family, be he an operator or a paid worker, is stricken by long illness, old age, or death, the family has...

Organizations must strike a balance between stability and innovation –i.e., between exploitation of their current business model and processes and exploration and adoption of alternative solutions (March, 1991). Accordingly, understanding the processes by which organizations adjust their propensity to innovate, as well as the conditions most likely to foster innovation in a firm, is an importan...