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by Jackie Arnold
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2015
Useful, easy to implement techniques, behaviours, skills and tips for those wishing to speak confidently in public or at meetings, conferences and events. A book which will appeal to people who are less experienced at speaking in public, but which will enhance the speaking of those with more knowledge...
One-armed Economist
On the Intersection of Business and Government
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
One-Armed Economist represents a personal, if eclectic, approach to public policy. Weidenbaum avoids doctrinaire positions, be they Keynesian or monetarist or supply side or libertarian. This distillation of Weidenbaum's wide range of writings on public policy issues over the last four decades draws...
by Nicoletta Setola, Sabrina Borgianni
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Designing Public Spaces in Hospitals illustrates that in addition to their aesthetic function, public spaces in hospitals play a fundamental role concerning people’s satisfaction and experience of health care. The book highlights how spatial properties, such as accessibility, visibility, proximity,...
The Fears of the Rich, The Needs of the Poor
My Years at the CDC
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
In its seventy years, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has evolved from a malaria control program to an institution dedicated to improving health for all people across the world. The Fears of the Rich, The Needs of the Poor is a revealing account of the CDC’s development by its...
Colonizing Leprosy
Imperialism and the Politics of Public Health in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
By comparing institutions in Hawai'i and Louisiana designed to incarcerate individuals with a highly stigmatized disease, Colonizing Leprosy provides an innovative study of the complex relationship between U.S. imperialism and public health policy in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries....
Citizen Science in the Digital Age
Rhetoric, Science, and Public Engagement
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
A discussion of the benefits and pitfalls of citizen science—scientific undertakings that make use of public participation and crowd-sourced data collection
James Wynn’s timely investigation highlights scientific studies grounded in publicly gathered data and probes the rhetoric these studies...
by Gregory Schwaid
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2017
Board Review in Preventive Medicine and Public Health prepares physicians for their initial and recertification board exams in the related specialties of preventive, occupational and aerospace medicine. Formatted in a question and answer based style that imitates material on specialty exams, each...
Consumers, Corporations, and Public Health
A Case-Based Approach to Sustainable Business
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2016
The public health footprint associated with corporate behavior has come under increased scrutiny in the last decade, with an increased expectation that private profit not come at the expense of consumer welfare. Consumers, Corporations, and Public Health assembles 17 case studies at the intersection...
The New Enlightenment
A Twenty-First Century Peaceful American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Imagine living in a more prosperous and fundamentally more just, democratic and egalitarian society. We can make this dream real with The New Enlightenment’s thoroughly detailed public policies that will: • End unemployment mainly by reducing full-time work hours 10%, to 36 hours per week. Less...
by John W. Moran
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
As the United States faces increasingly difficult and trenchant public health problems, from the Zika virus to the obesity epidemic to the opioid crisis, population health is a growing area of concern for public health organizations, particularly how to care for populations effectively on a shoestring...
by John Chandler
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
The book contains a wealth of detailed and fascinating case studies of New Public Management (NPM) in practice in the UK, exploring the enactment of NPM in its specific organizational contexts. A range of public services are covered including local government, education, social work and the police,...
Sustainability Policy
Hastening the Transition to a Cleaner Economy
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
A complete guide to sustainability policy at the federal, state, and local levels
Sustainability Policy: Hastening the Transition to a Cleaner Economy is a fundamental guide for public sector professionals new to sustainability policy development, implementation, strategy, and practice. Featuring...
Value and Virtue in Public Administration
A Comparative Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2011
A multidisciplinary analysis of the role of values and virtue in public administration, this book calls for a rediscovery of virtue. It explores ways of enabling the public sector to balance the values that are presently dominant with classic values such as accountability, representation, equality, neutrality, transparency and the public interest.
The Coordination of European Public Hospital Systems
Interests, Cultures and Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2016
This book engages theoretically and empirically with the unprecedented wave of public management reforms in public hospitals in Europe in the past 25 years. It provides a useful overview of these reforms and studies the way in which they have influenced the ability of national policy-making institutions...