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Collaboration in Public Services
The Challenge for Evaluation
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
The International Group for Policy and Program Evaluation (INTEVAL) serves as a forum for scholars and practitioners of public policy to discuss ideas and developments as a community dedicated to enhancing the contribution of evaluation to government. From the group's studies has emerged a concern...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2011
After a quarter of a century of implementation of New Public Management (NPM) reform strategies, this book assesses the major real outcomes of these reforms on states and public sectors, at both the organisational level and a more political level. Unlike most previous accounts of reform, this book...
The Administrative State
A Study of the Political Theory of American Public Administration
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
This classic text, originally published in 1948, is a study of the public administration movement from the viewpoint of political theory and the history of ideas. It seeks to review and analyze the theoretical element in administrative writings and to present the development of the public administration...
by Barry Levy, Jonathan Patz
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2015
Climate change is causing, and will increasingly cause, a wide range of adverse health effects, including heat-related disorders, infectious diseases, respiratory and allergic disorders, malnutrition, mental health problems, and violence. The scientific bases for the associations between climate change...
The New Public Health and STD/HIV Prevention
Personal, Public and Health Systems Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2012
Despite effective approaches to prevention, STD and HIV infection rates remain fairly constant. Targeting, implementation, and monitoring of interventions have posed widespread problems, and the recent spate of cuts to prevention budgets has made these roadblocks even more challenging. It is clear...
Key Topics in Public Health E-Book
Essential Briefings on Prevention and Health Promotion
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2005
Key Topics is a short, easy-to-read text that provides basic information about twelve key topics in public health, such as diabetes, cancer, smoking and teenage pregnancy, and how prevention and health promotion should be tackled at community and one-to-one levels. The twelve topics are the 'must-dos'...
by Dawne Gurbutt
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Collaborative Practice for Public Health encourages individuals to consider the opportunities and impacts of working in public health as well as the gains that can be made by working collaboratively. Chapters explore some of the sociological issues that underpin the practice of public health and offer...
The Economics of Public-Private Partnerships
Theoretical and Empirical Developments
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2018
This book investigates the economic decisions behind the implementation of public-private partnerships (PPPs). The first part of the book discusses different forms of public procurement contracts, in particular in France and the UK, and provides an economic analysis of the potential advantages and...
Building Service-Oriented Government
Lessons, Challenges and Prospects
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2012
Providing quality public service is one of the essential functions of a government. In the turbulent time, however, governments worldwide are experiencing a variety of unprecedented challenges to meet citizens' increasing demands and expectations. In China, building a service-oriented government and...
Advancing Collaboration Theory
Models, Typologies, and Evidence
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2015
The term collaboration is widely used but not clearly understood or operationalized. However, collaboration is playing an increasingly important role between and across public, nonprofit, and for-profit sectors. Collaboration has become a hallmark in both intragovernmental and intergovernmental relationships....
by Marks, Linda
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2014
Drawing on in-depth case studies across England, this book argues that governance and population health are inextricably linked. Using original research, it shows how these links can be illustrated at a local level through commissioning practice related to health and wellbeing. Exploring the impact...
Alcohol, Power and Public Health
A Comparative Study of Alcohol Policy
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
In recent years, the reduction of alcohol-related harm has emerged as a major policy issue across Europe. Public health advocates, supported by the World Health Organisation, have challenged an approach that targets problem-drinking individuals, calling instead for governments to control consumption...
Public Service Accountability
Rekindling a Debate
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018
How we manage public services and hold them to account is critically important. Yet austerity, recent changes to accountability frameworks, and the loss of the Audit Commission have created a huge deficit in our understanding of how well services are delivered. The time is thus right to re-examine...
Good Governance in China - A Way Towards Social Harmony
Case Studies by China’s Rising Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2008
Good governance is necessary for effective public administration and delivery of public goods and services. This is an important issue for all countries, but in particular for rapidly developing countries such as China where reform of governance and public administration is a key element of the public...