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Human scale in architecture is deliberately violated: for monumental effect. Buildings, statues, and memorials are constructed in a scale larger than life as a social/cultural signal that the subject matter is also larger than life. One example is the Rodina (Motherland) statue in Volgograd. for aesthetic effect.
Human Scale Development is basically community development and is "focused and based on the satisfaction of fundamental human needs, on the generation of growing levels of self-reliance, and on the construction of organic articulations of people with nature and technology, of global processes with local activity, of the personal with the social, of planning with autonomy and of civil society ...
It does not include derived units further unless they are also themselves human-based. These units are thus considered to be human scale and anthropocentric. A cross-cultural review of body-based measurement systems has found such units to be ubiquitous worldwide. [1]
Max-Neef on Human Needs and Human-scale Development; El desarrollo a la medida humana from Desarrollo y Cooperación (March/April 2002) (in Spanish) Economic Investigation by Hermann Max, Manfred Max-Neef's father; Max-Neef: U.S. Is Becoming an "Underdeveloping Nation", a video interview by Democracy Now!
Affordable Health Care for America (H.R. 3962) America's Affordable Health Choices (H.R. 3200) Baucus Health Bill (S. 1796) Proposed. American Health Care Act (2017) Medicare for All Act (2021, H.R. 1976) Healthy Americans Act (2007, 2009) Health Security Act (H.R. 3600) Latest enacted. Affordable Care Act (H.R. 3590) Health Care and Education ...
Algeria operates a public and universal healthcare system. A network of hospitals, clinics, and dispensaries provide treatment to the population, with the social security system funding health services, although many people must still cover part of their costs due to the rates paid by the social security system remaining unchanged since 1987.
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The Grossman model of health demand is a model for studying the demand for health and medical care outlined by Michael Grossman in a monograph in 1972 entitled: The demand for health: A theoretical and empirical investigation. The model based demand for medical care on the interaction between a demand function for health and a production ...