We argue that it is important to assess all four perspectives explicitly to obtain the most comprehensive view on attitudes towards smoking and quitting.
Given that this study recruited a representative proportion of the general population in each country all responses were included to provide the most comprehensive societal perspective.
Only two studies stated to have applied the patient's perspective, while no author explicitly adopted the most comprehensive view--the societal perspective.
The report is not the first to try to quantify the investment impacts of various climate-change scenarios — reports from Deutsche Bank, the Risky Business Project, the Stern Review, and many others are floating around — but it is, to date, the most comprehensive from an asset-allocation perspective.
The strength of this study is the combination of educational, psychosocial, and physical components, and the study has a more interactionistic and comprehensive perspective on rehabilitation than most of the previous studies.
The societal perspective allows for the most comprehensive cost assessment, because the economic evaluation may include not only lost productivity in paid work, but also lost productivity in non-work-related tasks, such as the provision of informal care.
Perhaps, as Wolterstorff and Stout have argued, respect is better served both by explicitly disclosing to one's interlocutors the reasons one finds most persuasive (whatever they may be) and appealing to reasons that they might most find most persuasive, given their own commitments to one or another comprehensive perspective (see Wolterstorff 1997 and Stout 2004, Chs. 2-4).
There is a general consensus that, when feasible, researchers should conduct their health economic analyses from the societal perspective, as it is the most comprehensive [ 2- 7].
Despite the development of knowledge in this field, it is hard to find a comprehensive perspective or model covering such a broad area and most studies related to SPC have focused only on a limited part of this knowledge area.
From the perspective of formal logic, Pearl's book offers the most comprehensive analysis, via an axiomatic comparison with Lewis's hierarchy of conditionals.
