PURPOSE Humanism is fundamental to excellent patient care and is therefore an essential concept for physicians to teach to learners. However, the factors that help attending physicians to maintain their own humanistic attitudes over time are not well understood. The authors attempted to identify attitudes and habits that highly humanistic physicians perceive allow them to sustain their humanist...

It is essential to understand the consumption pattern of food and how it changes over time to formulate sound economic policies as well as marketing and pricing strategies. In this study, we estimate the Quadratic Almost Ideal Demand System with six rounds of the Family Income Expenditure Survey exploiting the conditional linearity of the demand system. We find that the Filipino diet has become...

In the last issue, Trevor Ogden (2012) provided us his reflections on the accomplishments, progress, and challenges of the Annals of Occupational Hygiene under his leadership since 1997. Few would dispute that Trevor’s contributions to the journal have been many: maintaining a commitment to high quality scholarship, seeing the journal through the advent of online publication processes and Inter...

AIM This paper targets novice nurse researchers to highlight how the perspectives of human sciences are useful in understanding people's experiences. BACKGROUND There is a need to address the utility of human sciences or the humanistic philosophy that values the understanding of subjective experiences in nursing, given that the mainstream development of nursing knowledge is still influenced b...

In this era of globalization, Science and Technology (S&T) have become incredibly popular in daily life. S&T has brought people closer together made the world more transparent. This situation poses a dilemma stemming from remarkable progress S&T. On one hand, life convenient for humans. other our conscience raises concerns as we find ourselves that is no longer human-centric but rat...