The health care system is facing challenges when more individuals are not taking responsibility over their own health care decisions and actions. This is evident in narratives where patient decline medicine, missed appointments, and non-adherence to suggested treatments.

Will it be ethically appropriate to demand that patients assume increased responsibility for their own health e.g. adherence to treatments and care?

Every one passes through the aging process. Most of us are not aware of the actual symptoms, and causes of aging. Most of gerontologists are searching the ways it can be prevented. The era of gene editing holds out hope that it is possible to prevent or slow down the process of aging. Do you think it is possible to treat aging like any other disease, and can it ever be prevented? You are most welcome to share your views and opinion.

Since sampling is not required in qualitative researches, I want to know if there is any minimum-maximum criteria for the number of interviews to be done to meet the research objectives in a qualitative research.

Happiness is very important

In your opinion, what is the most positive aspect of this pandemic? I think reducing environmental pollution is one of the good things. Do you agree?

Hi everyone,

I'm approaching AIDS models for the first time. Several papers (e.g., Holt and Goodwin, 2009) talk about the concavity of the utility function as a condition that guarantees negative own-price (Hicksian) elasticities. A technical paper (Henningsen, 2017) mentions, instead, the concavity of the expenditure function as a condition required to have a unique solution to the utility maximization problem. However, I didn't find in the literature any reference to this last condition. Is there a link between the two concavity conditions I mentioned above?

Thank you in advance,

Alice

Holt, M. T., & Goodwin, B. K. (2009). The almost ideal and translog demand systems. Quantifying consumer preferences.

Henningsen, A. (2017). Demand analysis with the “almost ideal demand system” in r: Package miceconaids.

Hello, all,

I'm trying to design a questionnaire that gets at two constructs for educational practitioners: 1) beliefs about teaching and learning, and 2) interpretations of an educational reform.

For the latter, I'm not trying to get at attitudes (what do you think of the reform?) but rather the beliefs, logics, assumptions that practitioners think inhere in the reform (why is the reform happening/what is it about/what does it propose, educationally?)

Now, I realize this is a bit confusing. As an example, I'd hope to juxtapose something like: "students should learn/learn best through memorization". For (1), the respondent would answer "I believe this is true." For (2), though, I'm struggling -- something like "I think this is the case for/intention of X new reform."

I've been trying to find examples of such comparative surveys focusing on perceptions/interpretations of innovation, reform, change, etc. But I'm coming up short.

Would it be fare to frame interpretations, cognitively, as "expectations" ("with X new reform, I expect this to be true") or social demands ("I think my school wants me to do this")?

Any thoughts are much appreciated!

(PS - To complicate this further, I intend to make a similar survey for students!)

An economic evaluation of the natural capital is essential to understand its loss for human developmental activities.

I would request my colleagues to enlighten, regarding its importance from your years of research experience.

Regards

Gowhar Meraj

I have recently completed my MA: Education with Leadership and Management. From this, I have developed a passion for mental health and wellbeing, specifically in psychological and social factors. I see this through the lense of a primary educator, and want to connect with link-minded individuals with the same interest. I would appreciate anyone who can help point me in the right direction.