happiness is among the concepts which were subject of empirical studies in 1960s. this concept has been used interchangeably with such concepts as joy, satisfaction with life and the like. while meaningfully correlating with the feeling of joy and satisfaction with life, as indicated by numerous researches, the feeling of happiness is affected by different factors and situations. the present re...

social happiness is one of the humanity’s most necessary innate needs and which plays a crucial role in the sublimity of individuals and society. reaching this would occur once individual has either physical or mental health. one of the effective factors in increasing the amount of individuals’ social happiness especially in women is providing them with mental dimension of security e.g. felling...

conclusions the results showed that heart failure had a negative impact on the quality of life for patients. therefore, evaluation and improvement of quality of life for these patients should be considered one of the duties of nurses. background currently, examining the quality of life is considered an important aspect of the study of chronic diseases. heart failure affects the quality of life ...

objectives: quality of life, when referring to an individual’s health, is called health-related quality of life. the purpose of this study is to assess self-perceived hearing loss related quality of life of adolescents with hearing loss and its relationship with sex, age sub-groups or school settings with domains of quality of life. methods: a school based survey was conducted in tehran city. u...

This paper reports estimates of the value of statistical lives using the labor market behavior of wave 2 of the Health and Retirement Survey (HRS). By exploiting the panel structure of the HRS, it is possible to provide the first test of the Pratt-Zeckhauser "dead anyway" hypothesis and to measure the importance of health status and quality of life for value of statistical life (VSL) estimates....

Public policies often involve choices of alternatives in which the size and the composition of the population may vary. Examples are the allocation of resources to prenatal care and the design of aid packages to developing countries. In order to assess the corresponding feasible choices on normative grounds, criteria for social evaluation that are capable of performing variable-population compa...

Many policies and regulations are intended to protect human life and health. To analyze the benefits and costs of these measures, we must address society’s willingness to pay (WTP) for a variety of health-risk reductions. By convention, economists report estimates of this WTP in terms of a unit called a “statistical life.”1 While some economists may not be particularly familiar with this termin...