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Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2010
A Public Health Perspective of Women’s Mental Health
Edited by Bruce Lubotsky Levin and Marion Ann Becker
As many as one-half of all women in the U.S. will experience some form of mental illness in their lives—an especially distressing fact when health care budgets are...
Public Human Resource Management
Strategies and Practices in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
Public Human Resource Management: Strategies and Practices in the 21st Century offers a novel take on public human resource management (PHRM) by providing practical guidance for practitioners operating in a drastically reformed HR environment. Author R. Paul Battaglio assesses how the traditional...
Public Administration in the 21st Century
A Global South Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2019
Public Administration has experienced a fundamental rethinking of its basic objectives, concepts and theories during the 21st century.
This book examines the transformations happening in global societies, the economy and in politics, to trace the trajectory of public administration as an academic...
Public Libraries and their National Policies
International Case Studies
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2012
Public Libraries and their National Policies is aimed at practicing librarians and scholars with an interest in public libraries. It examines the various models for providing public library services around the world and discusses differences in such areas as funding sources, standards, regulations...
Dermatology in Public Health Environments
A Comprehensive Textbook
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2018
This book provides a reference guide in the field of dermatology, presenting and discussing its interface with public health.
Dermatological diseases are extremely common in populations around the globe, and the systematization of knowledge about these dermatoses and their relationships with...
by Dale Carnegie
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2018
Whether you want to improve your performance in sales, leadership, interpersonal skills, communications, presentations or customer service, you'll find a resource here that perfectly work for you. You'll have a skill that will help power your performance and your career to the next level – an experience...
Critical Issues in Public Art
Content, Context, and Controversy
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
In this groundbreaking anthology, twenty-two artists, architects, historians, critics, curators, and philosophers explore the role of public art in creating a national identity, contending that each work can only be understood by analyzing the context in which it is commissioned, built, and received....
The Public Health Crisis Survival Guide
Leadership and Management in Trying Times
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2018
Firefighters are taught to battle flames. Police learn to respond quickly to 911 calls. So why are so few health officials prepared for public health crises? The Public Health Crisis Survival Guide is here to help. Whether it's an infectious disease outbreak, a scathing news report, or a sudden budget...
by John Brown, Pat Gaudin, Wendy Moran
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2013
In the UK's current climate of budget cuts and policy changes, local government officials need to be aware of best practice in both broadcasting their services and responding to crises in their communities. Meanwhile, changes in the media - from the rise of social media, to web access for older consumers...
Public Procurement
International Cases and Commentary
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
In many countries and sectors, public procurement is developing from a functional orientation to an effective socio-economic policy lever. There is a great interest among managers and academics to learn from other countries’ and other sectors’ change initiatives and how they dealt with the challenges...
Balancing Control and Flexibility in Public Budgeting
A New Role for Rule Variability
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
This work explores how reshaping budget rules and how they are applied presents a preferred means of public sector budgeting, rather than simply implementing fewer rules. Through enhanced approaches to resource flexibility, government entities can ensure that public money is used appropriately while...
Positioning Theory and Strategic Communication
A new approach to public relations research and practice
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2014
In public relations, people talk about positioning an idea, a persona, a political ideal, an ideology – but what are they talking about? Why do some positions taken by organizations crystallize in the minds of audiences, while others fail?
Whilst positioning is not something new in public...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 1991
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 1991
This handbook, edited by Ke-young Chu and Richard Hemming, offers guidance to officials formulating public policy recommendations, so that the aggregate level of public spending conforms with the economy's overall resource capacity. The handbook looks at the impact of public spending on the efficiency...
Modernizing the Public Sector
Scandinavian Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
As policymakers and scholars evaluate possible ways forward in the reform and renewal of public services by governments caught up in a recessionary environment, this book aims to offer something different – a comprehensive analysis of the development of the ‘Scandinavian’ way of modernizing...