The effects of national culture and human development on environmental health

2013 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-101 ◽  
Author(s):  
Naz Onel ◽  
Avinandan Mukherjee
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Health ◽  
Human Development ◽  
National Culture

A contingency theory of corruption: The effect of human development and national culture

2012 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 90-97 ◽  
Author(s):  
Randi L. Sims ◽  
Baiyun Gong ◽  
Cynthia P. Ruppel
Keyword(s):  
Human Development ◽  
National Culture ◽  
Contingency Theory

Human Development by Gender and National Culture: A Comparative Analysis

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
Fernanda Pereira Sartori Falguera ◽  
MANUELLA A. F. Lima ◽  
Vanessa A. S. Ferrari ◽  
Gladys D. C. Barriga ◽  
Enzo B. Mariano
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Human Development ◽  
National Culture

The Relationship Between Culture and Human Development

2020 ◽  
pp. 187-212
Author(s):  
Pedro Silva ◽  
António Carrizo Moreira
Keyword(s):  
Human Development ◽  
National Culture ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Development Programme ◽  
Cultural Dimensions ◽  
Transparency International ◽  
Global Innovation ◽  
The People ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Nations Development

The human development is used to evaluate the richness of human life, focusing on the people, on their opportunities and choices, rather than simply on the richness of economies. As for national culture, it is understood as a set of characteristics that distinguish members and that may influence all aspects of social and individual life. This study hypothesizes that national culture, measured using Hofstede's six cultural dimensions, has an impact on corruption and on innovation, and that less corrupt and more innovative nations create better welfare conditions and human development for their habitants. To test the proposed framework, data were obtained from Hofstede's, Transparency International, Global Innovation, and United Nations Development Programme websites for the year 2012. Using PLS-SEM, the results show that cultural factors play a smaller role on determining innovation than corruption, and that decreasing corruption is more important to improve human development than increasing innovation.

scholarly journals A Research on the Relationship between Environmental Sustainability Management and Human Development

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (21) ◽  
pp. 9001
Author(s):  
Sue Ling Lai ◽  
Du-Nin Chen
Keyword(s):  
Life Expectancy ◽  
Environmental Health ◽  
Human Development ◽  
Environmental Performance ◽  
Human Development Index ◽  
Explanatory Power ◽  
Life Expectancy At Birth ◽  
Composite Indices ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Years Of Schooling

The study explores the relationship between environmental performance and human development. A canonical correlation analysis was conducted to discover the maximum correlation between environmental performance and human development with the optimal estimated weights for indicators as constituting the composite indices. The results show that environmental health—being the most decisive—and ecosystem vitality are important indicators for representing the environmental performance. Other important indicators, in declining order, for constituting the human development index are mean years of schooling, expected years of schooling, and life expectancy at birth, with gross national income (GNI) being the last with relatively low weight. The canonical environmental performance index has utmost effect on mean years of schooling, then expected years of schooling, with explanatory power of more than 70% for both. Effect on life expectancy at birth is more than 60%, but only less than 30% on GNI. The canonical human development index has the highest explanatory power with nearly 80% for environmental health, but only 40% for ecosystem vitality. Both canonical composite indices reach a high correlation of 91% and the mutual explanatory power is 83%, confirming that environmental performance and human development are indeed positively and highly correlated.

Applications of CCEM to Environmental Health Problems

1985 ◽  
Vol 43 ◽  
pp. 102-103
Author(s):  
R. J. Lee ◽  
J. S. Walker
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microscopy ◽  
Image Analysis ◽  
Environmental Health ◽  
Computer Control ◽  
External Agent ◽  
External Agents ◽  
Computer Controlled ◽  
Primitive State ◽  
Textural Changes ◽  
General Aspects

Electron microscopy (EM), with the advent of computer control and image analysis techniques, is rapidly evolving from an interpretative science into a quantitative technique. Electron microscopy is potentially of value in two general aspects of environmental health: exposure and diagnosis.In diagnosis, electron microscopy is essentially an extension of optical microscopy. The goal is to characterize cellular changes induced by external agents. The external agent could be any foreign material, chemicals, or even stress. The use of electron microscopy as a diagnostic tool is well- developed, but computer-controlled electron microscopy (CCEM) has had only limited impact, mainly because it is fairly new and many institutions lack the resources to acquire the capability. In addition, major contributions to diagnosis will come from CCEM only when image analysis (IA) and processing algorithms are developed which allow the morphological and textural changes recognized by experienced medical practioners to be quantified. The application of IA techniques to compare cellular structure is still in a primitive state.

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