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by James Barlow
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Across the world, the demands placed on health systems are growing rapidly. Developed countries face the challenge of providing services to an ageing population with changing health needs, while countries with developing health systems must find ways of ensuring their populations are provided with...
The Federal Idea
Public Law Between Governance and Political Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
A significant part of the world's population lives under some sort of federal arrangement. And yet, the concepts of federalism and federation remain under-theorised. Federalist theorists have, for the most part, defined their object by opposition to the unitary state. As a result, they have not developed...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2015
In a world of earthquakes, tsunamis, and terrorist attacks, it is evident that emergency response plans are crucial to solve problems, overcome challenges, and restore and improve communities affected by such negative events. Although the necessity for quick and efficient aid is understood, researchers...
Understanding Affirmative Action
Politics, Discrimination, and the Search for Justice
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2006
For some time, the United States has been engaged in a national debate over affirmative action policy. A policy that began with the idea of creating a level playing field for minorities has sparked controversy in the workplace, in higher education, and elsewhere. After forty years, the debate still continues...
The Affordable Care Act as a National Experiment
Health Policy Innovations and Lessons
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
This book examines the landmark 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) from the perspective of health policy research as translational science. It delineates a new perspective about the creation and potential impact of the ACA and guides the development of health policy that is supported...
Speaking Well
Essential Skills for Speakers, Leaders, and Preachers
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2015
The thought of speaking in public strikes fear in the hearts of many. But we are often called upon to speak, teach, preach, or make presentations in our work and personal lives. In Speaking Well, Adam Hamilton offers nineteen powerful tips and tactics that lead to excellent speaking in any setting.
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by Morphet, Janice
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2014
Britain's relationship with the European Union (EU) is frequently viewed as simple by the media and politicians. In ways - never really explained - the EU has managed to 'take away' Britain's sovereign powers and has the ability to determine much of its legislation. The history of how this has occurred...
Environmental and Health Regulation in the United States and the European Union
Protecting Public and Planet
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
During the first decade of the twenty-first century, the United States increasingly has relaxed its regulatory posture in the face of critical challenges to public health and the environment. This is true for regulation of recycling of end-of-life products, including autos and electronic components;...
Urban Health and Society
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Research and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2009
Praise for Urban Health and Society
"This is a spectacular resource for practitioners, policymakers, researchers, and students interested in improving the lives and health of individuals and families in urban settings. This book provides the most current frameworks, research, and approaches...
by Glenn Laverack
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2014
This book provides a clear and comprehensive introduction to the many definitions, theories and approaches in public health. It is an important book for students and practitioners who are interested in public health, and for those who are keen to improve it.
The Contagious City
The Politics of Public Health in Early Philadelphia
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2012
By the time William Penn was planning the colony that would come to be called Pennsylvania, with Philadelphia at its heart, Europeans on both sides of the ocean had long experience with the hazards of city life, disease the most terrifying among them. Drawing from those experiences, colonists hoped...
Commissions of Inquiry and Policy Change
A Comparative Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
Commissions of inquiry are a vital and ubiquitous part of the Canadian policy landscape. Established to answer the tough questions, they have been charged with examining almost every aspect of public life.
This collection brings together leading Canadian scholars working in political science,...
Fields of Authority
Special Purpose Governance in Ontario, 1815-2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
Everywhere we turn in Canadian local politics – from policing to transit, education to public health, planning to utilities – we encounter a peculiar institutional animal: the special purpose body. These “ABCs” of local government – library boards, school boards, transit authorities, and...
Public Policymaking in a Globalized World
Revised edition
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
The inexorable advent of globalization has transformed the public policymaking process into a multi-faceted challenge that transcends traditional policymaking boundaries and forces scholars, experts, and practitioners to redefine their field in terms of both theory and practice. While every policy...