Among their recommendations are a series of policy initiatives including greater environmental regulation to make people more aware of the impact of their consumption on the environment; improvements to competition policy to prevent large monopolies; and incentives against investor short-termism.
For other QOL domains (psychology, social relationships and environment) improvement appeared to depend on individual factors such as level of education and earlier experience of a family member dying from HIV rather than on contact with a peer supporter.
Western China-East Power Transmission Project has been proved to make a great contribution to environment improvement of China by reducing the transmission and burning of fossil fuel.
This allows comparisons between acousticians', city-users' and planners' categorizations of urban soundscapes, and suggests that a simple decrease of noise level or the elimination of noises is insufficient to account for urban environment improvement.
One way of addressing this lack of evidence is to conduct a natural experimental study to evaluate the effect of an intervention — in this case, a change to the environment involving improvements to transport infrastructure — that is not introduced for research purposes but is nonetheless amenable to evaluation [ 9].
Specifically, the optimization of the health status of drivers, the rehabilitation of functional limitations that effect driving capacity, creating a safer driving environment through improvements to roads and traffic control devices, and vehicle optimizations tailored to the needs of older drivers are each recommended (Wang and Carr 2004).
In other words, in the harsh environment, improvement of this trait must come before other potential renovations to growth rate.
It warrants further study to investigate the impact of clinical learning environment improvement on the medical trainee's mental distress and performance.
Therefore, strategies to prevent falls, including reviewing medications, correction of environment, improvement of strength, and regular balance training, should be encouraged in the elderly.
It is therefore recommended to develop regional evaluation standards of thermal environments responding to climate characteristics as well as local occupants' acclimatization and adaptation in order to meeting dual targets of energy conservation and indoor thermal environment improvement.
