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by Lulu Zhang, Meina Li, Feng Ye
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
This book provides a comprehensive understanding of public hospital reform in China, which is a hot topic for China’s new round of health sector reform. The authors use rich data from both health provider side and service user side and conduct a cross-sectional study in China with some comparative...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2015
The book brings together experts working in public health and multi-disciplinary areas to present recent issues in statistical methodological development and their applications. This timely book will impact model development and data analyses of public health research across a wide spectrum of analysis....
Public Opinion on Economic Globalization
Considering Immigration, International Trade, and Foreign Direct Investment
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
This book examines survey data to consider the extent to which public support for immigration, international trade, and foreign direct investment exists in a cohort of 38 heterogeneous countries. With economic globalization shaping daily life, understanding the determinants of public opinion is crucial...
Building Digital Government Strategies
Principles and Practices
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
This book provides key strategic principles and best practices to guide the design and implementation of digital government strategies. It provides a series of recommendations and findings to think about IT applications in government as a platform for information, services and collaboration, and strategies...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Behavioral economics has potential to offer novel solutions to some of today's most pressing public health problems: How do we persuade people to eat healthy and lose weight? How can health professionals communicate health risks in a way that is heeded? How can food labeling be modified to inform...
Nutrition Promotion
Theories and methods, systems and settings
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2008
Affluenza in developed societies is damaging our health, leading to increasing rates of obesity, diabetes and other metabolic disorders. Growth in individual food consumption is also threatening ecological sustainability. More than ever before, dieticians, nutritionists, and other health professionals...
Crisis Management and Public Policy
Singapore's Approach to Economic Resilience
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2011
This book is an annual effort by the economists from the Nanyang Technological University to provide analysis, interpretations and insights on contemporary economic issues affecting Singapore.
In 2010, Singapore's economy was just recovering from the sharp economic downturn in 2008/09 caused...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2016
The effects of recent economic and financial crises have reached an international scale; a number of different nations have experienced the fallout of these events, calling into question issues of accountability and reform in public management. Global Perspectives on Risk Management and Accounting...
Cost-Sharing in Health Care
Proceedings of the International Seminar on Sharing of Health Care Costs Wolfsberg/Switzerland, March 20–23, 1979
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
In view of the continuing preoccupation of all industrialized countries with the rising share of national resources devoted to health care, it is valuable to compare the fmanc ing and breakdown of health care expenditure on an international basis. How far should public spending on health care be...
The Capacity for Civic Engagement
Public and Private Worlds of the Self
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2011
How do we form a connection to the ideals and institutions of public life? This connection is sometimes expressed in the language of civic engagement, public service, and commitment to the public good. While we do not lack for literature to guide us in thinking about public life, we have less to call...
by R. Sassower
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
This book provides a historically-informed survey critically outlining sociological, psychological, political, and economic approaches to the role of public intellectuals. Sassower suggests how the state might financially support the essential work of public intellectuals so as to critically engage the public and improve public policies.
by David E. McNabb
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2017
Now in a thoroughly revised and refreshed fourth edition, Research Methods in Public Administration and Nonprofit Management is beloved by students and professors alike for its exceptional clarity and accessibility and plentiful illustrations. This new edition integrates quantitative, qualitative,...
An Asperger's Guide to Public Speaking
How to Excel at Public Speaking for Professionals with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2015
This practical guide to effective public speaking for professionals with Asperger Syndrome (Autism Spectrum Disorder) provides tailored advice on using your Asperger strengths to your advantage and overcoming areas of challenge to find your public speaking voice.
Written by a business leader...
Visual Culture and Public Policy
Towards a visual polity?
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
Traditionally, images have played an important role in politics and policy making, mostly in relation to propaganda and public communication. However, contemporary society is inundated with visual material due to the increasing ubiquity of media and visual technologies that facilitate the production,...