Older adults have been shown to avoid negative and prefer positive information to a higher extent than younger adults. This positivity bias influences their information processing as well as decision-making. We investigate age-related positivity bias in charitable giving in two studies. In Study 1 we examine motivational factors in monetary donations, while Study 2 focuses on the emotional effe...

OBJECTIVE To study food patterns assessed using scores of consumption and their relationship with serum total cholesterol (TOTAL-C), low density lipoprotein-cholesterol (LDL-C) and high density lipoproteins (HDL-C) concentration in the population of the metropolitan area of São Paulo, Brazil. METHODS Data on food frequency consumption (FFC), serum lipids, and other covariates were available f...

The pharmaceutical sector plays a fundamental role in supporting the economic development of a country. The performance of this sector is influenced by employees’ performance, which can be affected by the way employees perceive fairness at their workplace. Fairness perception can be affected by the equity sensitivity type and the personality traits of employees. The Lebanese context lacks studi...

BACKGROUND World Health Organization (WHO) defines three goals to assess the performance of a health system: the state of health, fairness in financial contribution and responsiveness. We assessed the responsiveness of health system for patients with diabetes in a defined population cohort in Tehran, Iran. METHODS Total responsiveness and eight domains (prompt attention, dignity, communicatio...

Abstract In recent years, although China’s economy has developed rapidly and the environment improved, there is a big gap between regional economies environmental pollution levels, unfairness still exists. Taking Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region as an example, this paper measures fairness in from economic contribution coefficient, population bearing coefficient green burden coefficient. The results...

the policy message in the World Health Report 2000 as “healthcare à la Karl Marx”, whereas Vicente Navarro described it as the mouthpiece of “US financial and political circles”. This contrast in opinions illustrates how discussions of health policy or health system reform often become ideological debates that are fuelled by anecdotes or, at best, by non-comparable results from studies in which...

We consider the problem of automatically verifying that a parameterized family of probabilistic concurrent systems terminates with probability one for all instances against adversarial schedulers. A parameterized family defines an infinite-state system: for each number n, the family consists of an instance with n finite-state processes. In contrast to safety, the parameterized verification of l...