Black Suburbanization: Access to Improved Quality of Life or Maintenance of the Status Quo?Harold M. Rose

1978 ◽  
Vol 83 (5) ◽  
pp. 1299-1301
Author(s):  
Thomas M. Guterbock
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
The Status

scholarly journals Paying Too Much for Energy? The True Costs of Our Energy Choices

Daedalus ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 141 (2) ◽  
pp. 10-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Greenstone ◽  
Adam Looney
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
National Security ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Energy System ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
External Costs ◽  
The Road ◽  
Playing Field ◽  
The Status

Energy consumption is critical to economic growth and quality of life. America's energy system, however, is malfunctioning. The status quo is characterized by a tilted playing field, where energy choices are based on the visible costs that appear on utility bills and at gas pumps. This system masks the “external” costs arising from those energy choices, including shorter lives, higher health care expenses, a changing climate, and weakened national security. As a result, we pay unnecessarily high costs for energy. New “rules of the road” could level the energy playing field. Drawing from our work for The Hamilton Project, this paper offers four principles for reforming U.S. energy policies in order to increase Americans' well-being.

Black Suburbanization: Access to Improved Quality of Life or Maintenance of the Status Quo?

1978 ◽  
Vol 68 (2) ◽  
pp. 235
Author(s):  
Peter O. Muller ◽  
Harold M. Rose
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
The Status

Strategic Role of Zakat in Multidimensional Quality of Life in Sijunjung, Indonesia

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-72
Author(s):  
Herlin Hamimi ◽  
Abdul Ghafar Ismail ◽  
Muhammad Hasbi Zaenal
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Wealth Distribution ◽  
Absolute Poverty ◽  
Before And After ◽  
The Status ◽  
Being There ◽  
The Impact

Zakat is one of the five pillars of Islam which has a function of faith, social and economic functions. Muslims who can pay zakat are required to give at least 2.5 per cent of their wealth. The problem of poverty prevalent in disadvantaged regions because of the difficulty of access to information and communication led to a gap that is so high in wealth and resources. The instrument of zakat provides a paradigm in the achievement of equitable wealth distribution and healthy circulation. Zakat potentially offers a better life and improves the quality of human being. There is a human quality improvement not only in economic terms but also in spiritual terms such as improving religiousity. This study aims to examine the role of zakat to alleviate humanitarian issues in disadvantaged regions such as Sijunjung, one of zakat beneficiaries and impoverished areas in Indonesia. The researcher attempted a Cibest method to capture the impact of zakat beneficiaries before and after becoming a member of Zakat Community Development (ZCD) Program in material and spiritual value. The overall analysis shows that zakat has a positive impact on disadvantaged regions development and enhance the quality of life of the community. There is an improvement in the average of mustahik household incomes after becoming a member of ZCD Program. Cibest model demonstrates that material, spiritual, and absolute poverty index decreased by 10, 5, and 6 per cent. Meanwhile, the welfare index is increased by 21 per cent. These findings have significant implications for developing the quality of life in disadvantaged regions in Sijunjung. Therefore, zakat is one of the instruments to change the status of disadvantaged areas to be equivalent to other areas.

Regulating Proxy Advisors Through Transparency: Pros and Cons of the EU Approach

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gaia Balp
Keyword(s):  
Status Quo ◽  
Legislative Process ◽  
European Regulation ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Status ◽  
Pros And Cons ◽  
Proxy Advisors ◽  
Legal Constraints ◽  
The Eu

This article outlines potential pros and cons of a future European regulation of proxy advisory firms, as set forth in the Commission’s Proposal for a Directive amending Directive 2007/36/EC. After summarizing criticisms concerning the proxy advisory industry, and findings regarding its de facto influence on investors’ voting conduct both in the US and in the European context, the article adverts to why the power of proxy advisors appears to be overestimated. Uncertainty on the status quo of the industry’s actual impact on key decisions in listed companies, as well as costs associated with a regulation, need to be considered for assessing the suitability of the rules drafted to ensure adequate levels of independence and quality of voting recommendations. While transparency rules may be preferred to stricter legal constraints or requirements in a first stage, possible shortcomings of the Draft Directive exist that may undermine its effectiveness. Analyzing the amendments to the Proposal adopted by the European Parliament, and the Council’s Presidency compromise text, may suggest a preferable approach as regards single rules still making their way through the European legislative process.

Bioethics, Adaptive Preferences, and Judging the Quality of a Life with Disability

2021 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 199-220
Author(s):  
Joseph A. Stramondo ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Health Policy ◽  
Clinical Ethics ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
The Self ◽  
Disabled People ◽  
Self Assessment ◽  
Adaptive Preferences ◽  
The Status

Both mainstream and disability bioethics sometimes contend that the self-assessment of disabled people about their own well-being is distorted by adaptive preferences that are only held because other, better options are unavailable. I will argue that both of the most common ways of understanding adaptive preferences—the autonomy-based account and the well-being account—would reject blanket claims that disabled people’s QOL self-assessment has been distorted, whether those claims come from mainstream bioethicists or from disability bioethicists. However, rejecting these generalizations for a more nuanced view still has dramatic implications for the status quo in both health policy and clinical ethics.

scholarly journals Analysis of Influence Factors of Quality of Life of Lung Cancer Patients with Skin Adverse Drug Reactions Under Targeted Therapy

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruofei Du ◽  
Xin Wang ◽  
Huiyue Zhou ◽  
Lixia Ma ◽  
Leon M. Larcher ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Lung Cancer ◽  
Targeted Therapy ◽  
Adverse Drug Reactions ◽  
Education Level ◽  
Self Management ◽  
Drug Reactions ◽  
The Status ◽  
Nsclc Patients

Abstract Purpose This study was to assess the status of quality of life and explore the possible factors correlated with quality of life among non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients with skin adverse drug reactions under targeted therapy. Methods We performed a cross-sectional study including 536 NSCLC patients with skin adverse drug reactions by targeted therapy in cancer outpatient clinics of three hospitals in China between May 2020 and May 2021. And we collected data with structured questionnaires and identified the relationships among coping style, self-management and quality of life by Pearson correlation analysis and multiple linear regression algorithm. Results The total score of quality of life was 46±12.84 in 536 NSCLC patients with skin adverse drug reactions undergoing targeted therapy. In multiple linear regression analysis, we identified the significant factors associated with quality of life including age, education level, combination of medicine, Charlson Comorbidity Index (CCI), stages of disease, facing, yield, symptom management, daily activity management, psychological and emotional management, self-efficacy and self-management (P < 0.05). Conclusions NSCLC patients with skin adverse drug reactions undergoing targeted therapy generally had a compromised quality of life. And the critical factors that affected the status of quality of life were age, education level, co-morbidity, the combinatorial application of drugs and stage of disease, self-management and coping styles.

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