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From Public Health to Wellbeing
The New Driver for Policy and Action
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2011
There has never been more awareness of the public health agenda, as policy-makers stress the importance of 'wellbeing' to the general public. Charting the history and evolution of the public health agenda, this insightful reader argues the place of wellbeing in local and national strategy. It identifies...
Straight Talk About Public Relations, Revised and Updated
New Strategies on Social Media and Content Marketing
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The media landscape is constantly changing. The 24-hour online news cycle for magazines, newspapers, TV, and other outlets, along with social media, offers news challenges – and opportunities – to inform and persuade.
Most books on public relations are useless. They’re boring academic...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
How to better coordinate policies and public services across public sector organizations has been a major topic of public administration research for decades. However, few attempts have been made to connect these concerns with the growing body of research on biases and blind spots in decision-making....
by Sergey Shipunov
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
This book will teach you how to become a lively, successful, and charismatic public speaker. Here you will find a fresh and entertaining explanation of virtually every aspect of public speaking: how to overcome stage fright, making eye contact, working on the voice, using pauses, questions, and gestures,...
Voices in the Wilderness
Public Discourse and the Paradox of Puritan Rhetoric
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
What has gone wrong with discourse and deliberation in the United States? It remains monologic, argues Patricia Roberts-Miller in Voices in the Wilderness, which traces America’s dominant form of argumentation back to its roots in the rhetorical tradition of 17th-century American Puritans. A work...
by Jonathan B. Imber
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
The findings of scientific research often provide an important baseline to the formation of public policy. However, effective communication to the larger public about what scientists do and know is a problem inherent to all democratic societies. It is the prerogative of democratic societies to determine...
Canadian Public Policy
Selected Studies in Process and Style
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012
Studies of public policy in Canada are traditionally narrow, focusing on a particular policy area or jurisdiction without giving consideration to the significant procedural commonalities that can be identified across the public policy spectrum. Canadian Public Policy provides the first comprehensive,...
The Trojan Horse
The Growth of Commercial Sponsorship
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
The Trojan Horse traces the growth of commercial sponsorship in the public sphere since the 1960s, its growing importance for the arts since 1980 and its spread into areas such as education and health. The authors' central argument is that the image of sponsorship as corporate benevolence has served...
Public Service Operations Management
A research handbook
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
How do policy makers and managers square the circle of increasing demand and expectations for the delivery and quality of services against a backdrop of reduced public funding from government and philanthropists? Leaders, executives and managers are increasingly focusing on service operations improvement....
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Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2014
Frequently in partnership, but sometimes at odds, religious institutions and public health institutions work to improve the well-being of their communities. There is increasing awareness among public health professionals and the general public that the social conditions of poverty, lack of education,...
Ebola
An Evolving Story
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2015
Selected as CHOICE magazine's Outstanding Academic Title, January 2017.
The book is a narrative of the unfolding of the Ebola virus disease outbreak from a scientific view point. The author provides an analysis of the scientific basis of public health policies that have influenced the public's,...
Comparing Public Bureaucracies
Problems of Theory and Method
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2012
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The comparative study of public policy once promised to make major contributions to our understanding of government. Much of that promise now appears unfulfilled. What accounts for this decline in intellectual fortunes and change in intellectual...
Ten Lessons in Public Health
Inspiration for Tomorrow's Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
There are occasions when a story told from a personal viewpoint can illuminate a profession. Alfred Sommer’s epidemiological memoir is such a book. Adventurous, illuminating, and thought provoking, Ten Lessons in Public Health is more than the story of one man’s work. It tells the tale of how...
Building a Legislative-Centered Public Administration
Congress and the Administrative State, 1946-1999
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2015
Before 1946 the congressional role in public administration had been limited to authorization, funding, and review of federal administrative operations, which had grown rapidly as a result of the New Deal and the Second World War. But in passing the Administrative Procedure Act and the Legislative...