Unearth the #Cairo Toe! 🦶 Dating back to 950-710 BCE, this wooden prosthetic toe from ancient #Egypt, now in the British Museum, reflects remarkable innovation. More than art, it's functional, enhancing mobility. A testament to resilience through the ages.

#prosthetics #prosthesis #culturalheritage #archaeology #anthropology #bonehealth #biomaterials #ancientegypt #surgery #forensicscience #forensics #historyunveiled #innovation #sciart #qualityoflife #britishmuseum #history #engineering

Lisbon is thriving and leading the world in terms of crypto-friendly laws and initiatives! It's no wonder why so many people are flocking to this beautiful city for its unbeatable quality of life and opportunities. #CryptoCapital #Lisbon #QualityofLife #BitcoinFriendlyTaxes #GovernmentIncentives http://www.techmeme.com/230910/p4#a230910p4

@thepoliticalcat @drclareharris @Porpentina2017

But it's not old farts (I'm one) being hospitalized or dying that I worry about.

It's the impacts of #LongCovid which hit not just the infected person, but their family, their friends, their coworkers - and especially their children, who might have a hard time dealing with the reality that this wonderful parent has changed in a major way

There's death, and also #qualityoflife. Some of us value the latter.

With the observation that scrolling by contracting the hand on a touchpad is easier and that most scrolling is top to bottom, I inverted the scrolling direction from the "natural" scrolling of a viewport. A small #qualityoflife improvement for me. Though I can use both without thought.

(I'm assuming that the #CDC already factors in lost labor productivity in the cost benefit analysis, but #QualityOfLife is harder to quantify even though (or because?) it affects the sufferers family & friends & coworkers. Hard to quantify items tend to get ignored because there's "no data")

Stunned - Offit completely ignores the quality of life impacts of Long Covid: "The updated booster is not intended for everyone. It’s for people in high-risk groups – those who are age 75 or older, pregnant or immunocompromised, said Offit, who serves on the FDA’s expert panel that reviewed the vaccine companies’ data. Individuals in this group... benefit the most in part because they account for a disproportionate number of COVID hospitalizations and deaths." (https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/your-fall-guide-to-covid-rsv-and-flu-vaccines)

@coreo #COVID19 #vaccination #QualityOfLife

https://www.laviezine.com/590916/the-best-countries-to-live-and-work-in-the-world/ The Best Countries to Live And Work in the World ##BestCountries ##CareerGrowth ##ExpatsLife ##GlobalOpportunities ##GlobalWorkforce ##InternationalJobs ##LiveAndWork ##QualityOfLife #PlacesToTravel #SoutheastAsiaVacation #topdestinations #WorkAbroad

Today was a good day.

Took @The_Augusto to an appointment (despite being him having a cold) via #bike , got some #ArmoredCore6 in on the #SteamDeck while I waited for him, got some meds and soup on the way back so he could rest up, then took the doggo on a walk.

#walkablecities #cargobike #gaming #qualityoflife #transit #lifestyle

23 years ago tonight, Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2000, Boulder County Commissioner Jana Mendez hosted a well-attended and contentious aircraft #aviationNoise forum (@33rd St. clerk's office) w/ Rep. Mark Udall, Sen. Allard rep., #FAA TRACON, #DIA, #Jeffco, Boulder Municipal, Vance Brand #airport managers.
Internet Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20020621144915/http://www.co.boulder.co.us/news/Noise_forum_notes.htm

Two decades later, has much, if anything, improved?☹️
#BoulderCounty #Colorado #NoisePollution #environment #soundscape #QualityOfLife

@housepanther @Radical_EgoCom @TomSwirly

Same with other things:

Most people oppose #Coups and #Revolutions not because they are disgusted by #violence, but because it reduces their personal & individual #QualityOfLife!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rStL7niR7gs&t=733s

#USA #QualityOfLife #HumanDevelopment: "One might think that the United States, home of the world's biggest tech companies and the country where the internet originated, might be unchallenged in internet connectivity. Figures say otherwise: The U.S. ranks 27th in global internet connectivity. Part of the reason might be cost: Within the OECD, a group of mostly rich industrialized countries, the U.S. has the second most expensive internet service for customers.

This story of high prices and poor outcomes is true almost across the board for vital services, and there is none more vital than health care. The U.S. spends 17.8 percent of GDP on health care, nearly twice as much as the average OECD country. Health spending per person in America is almost twice as high as in the next most expensive country, Germany, and four times higher than in South Korea.

Does that high cost lead to better health? It does not. Probably the best proxy for the adequacy of health care is longevity; according to the UN, the U.S. ranks No. 70 out of 227 sovereign or semi-sovereign state entities. That's below most European NATO members, South Korea, Japan and Israel, just to name three countries the U.S. has pledged to defend militarily, at potentially huge expense. It's also below China."

https://www.salon.com/2023/08/05/why-america-is-going-backward-being-the-richest-nation-in-history-isnt-enough/

#EU #USA #WorkLifeBalance #QualityOfLife

AMP has just published!
"A Prospective Study of Patients with Persistent Symptoms after SARS-CoV-2 Infection Referred to Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation"
Original Article by Joana ROMANO, Pedro RIBEIRO, Joana ALBERTO, Paula ALMEIDA and Duarte DANTAS from Serviço de Medicina Física e de Reabilitação of the Hospital de Pedro Hispano in Matosinhos, Portugal.

Full paper available available here:
https://www.actamedicaportuguesa.com/revista/index.php/amp/article/view/19382

#ActivitiesofDailyLiving #PostAcuteCOVID19Syndrome #QualityofLife

Teamsters gather union, political support ahead of forced strike vs. UPS

https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/teamsters-gather-union-political-support-ahead-of-forced-strike-vs-ups/

“With 340,000 Teamsters heading for a strike their UPS bosses are forcing on them, the union picked up support from the Service Employees and from two long and strong political backers of workers”

#strike #solidarity #economicshutdown #teamsters #ups #greed #investors #shareholders #capitalism #qualityoflife

"These are America’s 10 worst states to live and work in for 2023, and there’s a big surprise at the very bottom"

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/07/14/these-are-americas-10-worst-states-to-live-and-work-in.html

#GOP #Republican #Unfit #QualityOfLife #Best #Worst #Democrats #News

RED STATE SHOCKER

These are America’s 10 worst states to live and work in for 2023, and there's a big surprise at the very bottom

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/07/14/these-are-americas-10-worst-states-to-live-and-work-in.html

Quality of life is a major factor in where Americans choose to work, live and make major purchases including homes. These states are the nation's very worst.

#redstate #fascism #badpay #life #health #inclusion #qualityoflife #businessfriendly #peoplehostile

How Climate Change Will Reshape Where Americans Live

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcYMH35Hqog&ab_channel=FiveThirtyEight

For decades, Americans have been moving south and west.
Galen speaks with author Jake Bittle, who argues that it’s only a matter of time before those trends reverse, or at least shift. Although, this time, he writes in his new book "The Great Displacement," it won’t be cheap housing, low taxes and plentiful jobs that attract people to new places. It will be a worsening climate that pushes them away.

#climate #climatedisplacement #qualityoflife #heatwave #flood #usa

#GDP #EconomicGrowth #QualityOfLife #USA #LifeExpectancy: "None of this is to say that GDP doesn’t matter. It represents the size of pie, which helps to determine what a country can do in the world, as well as the kind of life it can provide for its people. Unsurprisingly, then, GDP per head and life expectancy tend to roughly correlate, but there are plenty of exceptions from which lessons can be learnt. Some countries punch above their economic weight when it comes to life expectancy, such as Spain, Italy and Japan with their healthy diets. The US, with its guns, processed foods and poor safety net, punches well below.

People who care about health and want to influence policymakers or the public often try to highlight the impact it has on the economy. “Poor health reduces global GDP by 15 per cent each year,” one McKinsey study(opens a new window) claims. “Endemic ill-health in England’s “left behind” neighbourhoods costs the country almost £30bn a year because people are often too ill to work and die earlier” another report suggests(opens a new window). But this is to get things precisely backwards. We don’t want to live long and healthy lives so we can generate GDP, we want GDP so we can live long and healthy lives."

https://www.ft.com/content/13c66ea6-df56-4bb1-8b53-c45a7a94429d

Unique Ways To Improve Your Quality of Life Following Personal Injury https://www.iloveaussie.com/unique-ways-to-improve-your-quality-of-life-following-personal-injury/ #qualityoflife #HEALTH

#Anxiety is a natural alarm system that can be triggered by #nonThreateningThoughts and stress, leading to #negativeImpacts on our #qualityOfLife. To recover, it's important to accept and stay with the feelings without resistance until they pass.
This can help lead to recovery and show that #anxiety is not as intense as we may fear once we stop resisting it.

💜 #AnxietyDisorder #AnxietyRecovery #AnxietyHealing #AnxietyTips #EmotionalHealth