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Public Health in India
Technology, governance and service delivery
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
Despite rapid advances in modern medicine and state-of-the-art health care services in the private sector, primary health care in India remains inaccessible to a majority of the population. Besides, even policymakers often do not have access to real-time data to fine-tune their policies or design...
The Fifth Estate
Think Tanks, Public Policy, and Governance
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
The Fifth Estate: Think Tanks, Public Policy, and Governance is a comprehensive look at think tanks and the important role they play in shaping public policy and public discourse in the United States. Author James G. McGann illustrates the lasting impact of think tanks in today’s civil society.
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Public Commissions on Cultural and Religious Diversity
Analysis, Reception and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
Due to growing negative perceptions about relations between historically entrenched, dominant populations and various minority groups, issues relating to the need to better manage cultural and religious diversity have been intensifying in many countries. These negative perceptions have recently led...
Improving Access and Efficiency in Public Health Services
Mid-term Evaluation of India's National Rural Health Mission
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2008
This book presents a systematic mid-term evaluation of the processes of the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM), India's biggest rural health programme. Data from District Level Health Surveys (DLHS), National Family Health Surveys (NFHS) and Sample Registration System (SRS) as well as primary data...
Gender Images in Public Administration
Legitimacy and the Administrative State
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2002
Extensively updated to reflect recent research and new theoretical literature, this much-anticipated Second Edition applies a gender lens to the field of public administration, looking at issues of status, power, leadership, legitimacy and change. The author examines the extent of women's historical...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Expert public psychiatrists use case studies to share best-practice strategies in this clinically-oriented introduction to community mental health. Today, the majority of psychiatrists work with people who suffer not only from mental illness, but also from poverty, trauma, social isolation and discrimination....
Under New Public Management
Institutional Ethnographies of Changing Front-Line Work
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2014
The institutional ethnographies collected in Under New Public Management explore how new managerial governance practices coordinate the work of people doing front-line work in public sectors such as health, education, social services, and international development, and people management in the private...
Pharmaceutical Autonomy and Public Health in Latin America
State, Society and Industry in Brazil’s AIDS Program
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
Brazil has occupied a central role in the access to medicines movement, especially with respect to drugs used to treat those with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that causes the acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS). How and why Brazil succeeded in overcoming powerful political and economic...
by Henricson, Clem
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
With an increasingly bitter secular religious divide, there is a messy, defective relationship between the state and morality in the UK. In response, Morality and Public Policy puts forward proposals to enhance the capacity of public policy to respond more effectively to morality and associated shifts...
by Adam Tomkins
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2003
Written in the well-established tradition of the Clarendon Law Series, Public Law offers a stimulating re-interpretation of the central themes and problems of English constitutional law. It offers full consideration of the historical development of public law. This book is an introduction that will...
Reporting at the Southern Borders
Journalism and Public Debates on Immigration in the U.S. and the E.U.
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Undocumented immigration across the Mediterranean and the US-Mexican border is one of the most contested transatlantic public and political issues, raising fundamental questions about national identity, security and multiculturalism—all in the glare of news media themselves undergoing dramatic transformations.
This...
Public Speaking for Absolute Beginners
Learn to Address an Audience with Confidence
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2019
We all need to master and practise public speaking.
The ability to speak in front of an audience is life-enhancing. It creates confidence at work, play and in relationships.
This book will give you that confidence and help you to speak on special occasions, in the workplace and when...
Angry Public Rhetorics
Global Relations and Emotion in the Wake of 9/11
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018
In Angry Public Rhetorics, Celeste Condit explores emotions as motivators and organizers of collective action—a theory that treats humans as “symbol-using animals” to understand the patterns of leadership in global affairs—to account for the way in which anger produced similar rhetorics in...
Knowledge Creation in Public Administrations
Innovative Government in Southeast Asia and Japan
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2017
This book presents a new paradigm of innovative governments in Asia, at the municipal, regional and national levels, based on the knowledge creation theory in management, and leading to organizational transformation and policy reform in public administration. Focusing on Indonesia, the Philippines,...