How Do People Form Longevity Predictions? The Effect of Parentsâ•Ž and Parents-in-lawâ•Žs Death on Beliefs about Mortality Risk

Older parents benefit more in health outcome from daughtersâ•Ž than sonsâ•Ž care in China

Objectives: To examine whether older parents in China would benefit more from daughters’ care than from sons’ care. Methods: Analysis of the unique datasets of the Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey conducted in 2002, 2005 and 2008-2009 in 22 provinces. Results: As compared to having son(s), having daughter(s) is significantly more beneficial at older ages in China, with regards to m...

میزان و علل مرگ و میر کودکان 59-1 ماهه در بیمارستان‌های استان کرمانشاه طی سال‌های 93-1390

Background and Objectives Health  indicators reflect the health of the community and infant mortality rate is one of the most important indicators of health, economy and culture in each community that are taken into consideration in public health assessment. This study aimed to determine the rate and causes of mortality of children aged 1-59 month(s) in the hospitals of Kermanshah provin...

Development of Effective School-Family Partnerships for Students from Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Backgrounds: From Special Education Teachersâ•Ž and Chinese American Parentsâ•Ž Perspectives

تاثیر مداخلات ترکیبی برجستگی مرگ بر حرمت خود با توجه به ملاحظات تاخیر زمانی

Abstract Terror management theory attempts to answer two fundamental questions: Why do people have a strong tendency to love themselves and why do they avoid whom are not similar to them? According to this theory the man’s survival tendency is the answer of these two questions. This theory claims that people reduce terror of death by gaining sense of valuableness and also by being attr...

Longevity Expectations and Death: Can People Predict Their Own Demise?

Many economists are convinced that when individuals are asked to formulate probabilities they are unlikely to do it correctly (Mark J. Machina, 1990). However, the same analysts would likely add that people do have a reasonably articulated, but biased, internal scale for risk perceptions. As a result, the extent of bias in these subjective perceptions has been an important unresolved issue. For...