Research priorities in mental health, Part 2: an evaluation of the current research effort against stakeholders' priorities

As part of the agency's broader noise research program, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has undertaken a multi-year research effort to quantify the impacts of aircraft noise exposure on communities around commercial service airports in the United States (U.S.). The overall goal of the study was to produce an updated and nationally representative civil aircraft dose-response curve; providing the relationship between annoyance and aircraft noise exposure around U.S. airport communities. To meet this goal, the FAA sponsored a research team to help design and conduct a national survey, known as the Neighborhood Environmental Survey (NES). By assessing the results of the NES through both internal review and input from public comment, the FAA seeks to better inform its noise research priorities and noise policies. This paper will outline the FAA's motivation to conduct the NES as well as how its findings will help inform ongoing work to address aircraft noise concerns. Additional information describing the noise methodology and survey methodology are provided in companion papers.

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Research priorities in mental health occupational therapy: A study of clinician perspectives

Australian Occupational Therapy Journal ◽

10.1111/1440-1630.12223 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 62 (5) ◽

pp. 326-332 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Danielle Hitch ◽

Kate Lhuede

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Occupational Therapy ◽

Research Priorities ◽

Clinician Perspectives

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The Mental health between epigenetics and individual beliefs

Mental Health: Global Challenges Journal ◽

10.32437/mhgcj.v1i1.10 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

pp. 20-24

Author(s):

Marin Dramnescu

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Physical Environment ◽

Research Effort ◽

External Environment ◽

Cellular Mechanisms ◽

Cellular Behavior ◽

Professional Environment ◽

Integrative Concept ◽

The Individual ◽

Individual Perspective

Mental health is an integrative concept that is not limited to dysfunctions or accentuations of psychic processes or mechanisms of thought. The research effort focused on the idea that mental health is a functional optimum found at the intersection of cellular behavior, the physical environment, the external environment, with all its subtypes, the environment in which the individual manifests itself and the subjective, psychological environment, dominated mainly by unconscious behavioral routines, beliefs, values, and ultimately individual perspective on life. Mental health represents and manifests itself as an emerging process resulting from the correlated functioning of the biological, physiological, and in particular cellular mechanisms, the various, random and / or permanent influences and stimuli of the physical, social and professional environment and the superior motivational structures of the type of beliefs and individual perspective on life. Epigenetics is a contemporary discipline derived from genetics that includes the environmental context as an important part of heredity. Currently, this discipline strongly influences a variety of areas, including medicine, psychiatry and psychology.

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Economics and the Environment: A Study of Private Nuisance

The Cambridge Law Journal ◽

10.1017/s0008197300092448 ◽

1977 ◽

Vol 36 (2) ◽

pp. 284-325 ◽

Cited By ~ 10

Author(s):

A. I. Ogus ◽

G. M. Richardson

Keyword(s):

Creative Thinking ◽

Research Effort ◽

Economic Activities ◽

Social Phenomena ◽

Legal Rules ◽

Intangible Resources ◽

Current Research Effort ◽

Subject Areas ◽

The Subject ◽

The Right

The English lawyer has been notoriously unwilling to admit the relevance of social sciences to his discipline. In part, this may be attributed to his lack of formal training in economics or sociology. As regards the latter, there are some signs of the handicap being overcome: much current research effort is now being directed to the interpretation of law and the legal system as social phenomena. But the application of economic reasoning to legal instruments and institutions has been limited and tentative. Although it has long been recognised that a marriage of the two disciplines is necessary for the procreation of effective norms in areas where the law clearly governs economic activities, for example, the regulation of trade and income redistribution, so far, in this country at least, creative thinking about central legal institutions such as tort, contract, property and crime has remained relatively untouched by such a mode of analysis. Yet, as Americans have demonstrated, there is nothing inappropriate in such an exercise. At first sight the subject areas of economics and law will appear to diverge significantly: the former is “concerned with the manner in which a society produces, distributes and consumes wealth when it is constrained by scarcity, either of tangible resources or of intangible resources,” while the latter is often viewed as a system of norms governing the conduct of individuals and institutions. Yet such conduct will generally involve the transfer and acquisition of resources. With this congruence of interest, therefore, the opportunity exists to compare economic analysis with prevailing legal rules on particular issues to see whether the “right” solution is reached.

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