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Methods for Community Public Health Research
Integrated and Engaged Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
"This book presents a new approach to conducting, evaluating, and presenting community and public health research... This is [a] valuable book for learning alternative ways of conducting and disseminating research."--Doody's Medical Reviews
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Public Inquiries
Wrong Route on Bloody Sunday
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2017
Throughout the twentieth century, administrations have wrestled with allaying public concern over national disasters and social scandals. This book seeks to describe historically the use of public inquiries, and demonstrates why their methods continued to deploy until 1998 the ingrained habits of...
Environmental Sustainability and American Public Administration
Past, Present, and Future
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Protecting the natural environment and promoting environmental sustainability have become important objectives for U.S. policymakers and public administrators at the dawn of the twenty-first century. Institutions of American government, especially at the federal level, and the public administrators...
by Jennie Naidoo, Jane Wills
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
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Surveillance, Transparency, and Democracy
Public Administration in the Information Age
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2015
In this well-informed yet anxious age, public administrators have constructed vast cisterns that collect and interpret a meteoric shower of facts. In Surveillance, Transparency, and Democracy, Akhlaque Haque demonstrates that this pervasive use and increasing dependence on information technology...
Strategic Silence
Public Relations and Indirect Communication
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
Mainstream public relations overvalues noise, sound and voice in public communication. But how can we explain that while practitioners use silence on a daily basis, academics have widely remained quiet on the subject? Why is silence habitually famed as inherently bad and unethical?
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Alcohol
Science, Policy and Public Health
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
Alcohol has always been an issue in public health but it is currently assuming increasing importance as a cause of disease and premature death worldwide. Alcohol: Science, Policy, and Public Health provides an interdisciplinary source of information that links together, the usually separate fields...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
Although ambivalence characterizes the stance of scholars toward the desirability of close opinion-policy linkages in general, it is especially evident with regard to immigration. The controversy and disagreement about whether public opinion should drive immigration policy are among the factors making...
The Not-So-Special Interests
Interest Groups, Public Representation, and American Governance
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2012
"Lobbyist" tends to be used as a dirty word in politics. Indeed, during the 2008 presidential primary campaign, Hillary Clinton was derided for even suggesting that some lobbyists represent "real Americans." But although many popular commentators position interest groups as representatives...
Public Administration and Public Policy in Ireland
Theory and Methods
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
This book provides a comprehensive introduction to public policy and administration in Ireland, thereby bridging the gap between general texts on public policy and policy analysis and books on Irish politics. Each chapter covers one of the key issues in policy analysis, eg. rational choice, corporatism,...
Soft Law and Public Authorities
Remedies and Reform
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
This book considers the phenomenon of soft law employed by domestic public authorities. Lawyers have long understood that public authorities are able to issue certain communications in a way that causes them to be treated like law, even though these are neither legislation nor subordinate legislation....
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Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
The growing ‘constitutional school’ of public administration has roots in the Federalist Papers, constitutional law, and the writings of several contemporary leaders and contributors in the field. It is comprised of a loose grouping of scholars who subscribe to the proposition that constitutions...
Bridging Occupational, Organizational and Public Health
A Transdisciplinary Approach
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
In our complex, fast changing society, health is strongly influenced by the continuously changing interactions between organisations and their employees. Three major fields contribute to health-oriented improvements of these interactions: occupational health, organizational health and public health....
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Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2013
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That health has many social determinants is well established and a myriad range of structural factors – social, cultural, political, economic, and environmental – are now known to impact on population well-being. Public health practice has started...