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Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2008
The search for good governance has become an increasingly important element of public policy and public management and is high on the political agenda of East Asian countries. The need for robust governance structures and institutions was brought into sharp focus by the Asian Financial Crisis which...
Making Public Places Safer
Surveillance and Crime Prevention
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2009
The United Kingdom has more than 4.2 million public closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras-one for every fourteen citizens. Across the United States, hundreds of video surveillance systems are being installed in town centers, public transportation facilities, and schools at a cost exceeding $100...
AIDS Impact on Public Policy
An International Forum: Policy, Politics, and AIDS
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome continues to be a major concern of the research and health care communities as well as the dominant public health issue in the news media. In the early years of the epidemic. attention was appropriately focused on characterizing the epidemiology of the disease in...
Using Social Marketing for Public Emergency Preparedness
Social Change for Community Resilience
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
Less than half of the public in the U.S. have taken the three steps to prepare for emergencies that are recommended by FEMA and the Red Cross: having a 3-day emergency kit, a family communication plan, and knowing where to get information during an emergency. Although emergency managers attempt to...
Transdisciplinary Public Health
Research, Education, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2013
"This book makes a great leap in the conceptualization of transdisciplinary approaches, as well as provides concrete examples in practice, teaching, policy, and research."
—From the Foreword by Edward F. Lawlor, dean and the William E. Gordon Distinguished Professor, the Brown School; and...
Gender-based Violence and Public Health
International perspectives on budgets and policies
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
Gender-based violence is a multi-faceted public health problem with numerous consequences for an individual’s physical and mental health and wellbeing. This collection develops a comprehensive public health approach for working with gender-based violence, paying specific attention to international...
by Miranda Thurston
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014
‘The growth of public health courses aimed at undergraduates has created a new need for textbooks that are appropriate and stimulating. Miranda Thurston has succeeded in producing something which strikes the right note. It is wide ranging in scope without being superficial and is accessible to the...
Collaborative Public Management
New Strategies for Local Governments
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2004
Local governments do not stand alone—they find themselves in new relationships not only with state and federal government, but often with a widening spectrum of other public and private organizations as well. The result of this re-forming of local governments calls for new collaborations and managerial...
by Theodore H. Tulchinsky
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2018
Case Studies in Public Health contains selected case studies of some of the most important and influential moments in medicine and epidemiology. The cases chosen for this collection represent a wide array of public health issues that go into the makeup of what can be termed the New Public Health (NPH),...
by Holley H. Ulbrich
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
The events of the last decade have challenged the contemporary neo-classical synthesis in all branches of economics, but particularly public finance. The most notable feature of the 2nd edition of Public Finance in Theory and Practice is the infusion of behavioral economics throughout the text, with...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1999
Traditionally, economics training in public finances has focused more on tax than public expenditure issues, and within expenditure, more on policy considerations than the more mundane matters of public expenditure management. For many years, the IMF's Public Expenditure Management Division has answered...
Human Trafficking Is a Public Health Issue
A Paradigm Expansion in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
This clear-sighted reference examines the public health dimensions of labor and sex trafficking in the United States, the scope of the crisis, and possibilities for solutions. Its ecological lifespan approach globally traces risk and protective factors associated with this exploitation, laying a roadmap...
Public Sector Entrepreneurship
U.S. Technology and Innovation Policy
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
Public sector entrepreneurship refers to innovative public policy initiatives that generate greater economic prosperity. These initiatives can transform a status quo economic environment into one that is more conducive to economic units engaging in creative and innovative activities in the face of...
Collaborating to Manage
A Primer for the Public Sector
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
Collaborating to Manage captures the basic ideas and approaches to public management in an era where government must partner with external organizations as well as other agencies to work together to solve difficult public problems. In this primer, Robert Agranoff examines current and emergent approaches...