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Modern Infectious Disease Epidemiology
Concepts, Methods, Mathematical Models, and Public Health
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2010
Hardly a day goes by without news headlines concerning infectious disease threats. Currently the spectre of a pandemic of influenza A|H1N1 is raising its head, and heated debates are taking place about the pro’s and con’s of vaccinating young girls against human papilloma virus. For an evidence-based...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
Doping – the use of performance-enhancing substances and methods – has long been a high-profile issue in sport but in recent years it has also become an issue in wider society. This important new book examines doping as a public health issue, drawing on a multi-disciplinary set of perspectives...
by Richard W. Schwester
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2015
While there are many ways to collect information, many students have trouble understanding how to employ various research methods effectively. Since everyone learns and processes information differently, instructing students on successfully using these methods continues to be a challenge. Teaching...
Knowledge in policy
Embodied, inscribed, enacted
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2015
This important collection presents a radical reconception of the place of knowledge in contemporary policymaking in Europe, based not on assumptions about evidence, expertise or experience but on the different forms that knowledge takes. Knowledge is embodied in people, inscribed in documents and...
Research Methods for Public Administrators
Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
As in previous editions, this highly practical book is written with beginning MPA students and practitioners in mind. It focuses on the interpretation and use of research findings, not just number crunching. It covers the entire research process, from initial questions to final report, in clear, jargon-free...
Re-imagining Government
Public Leadership and Management in Challenging Times
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2011
In an age of austerity, public leaders and managers face a range of external challenges - fiscal, social and political. Combining theoretical insight, empirical commentary and practical experience, this book examines how democratic political systems work and how public decisions are made - and how they could be made better.
Introducing Science through Images
Cases of Visual Popularization
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
As funding for basic scientific research becomes increasingly difficult to secure, public support becomes essential. Because of its promise for captivating nonexpert publics, the practice of merging art and imagery with science has been gaining traction in the scientific community. While images have...
Networked Media, Networked Rhetorics
Attention and Deliberation in the Early Blogosphere
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
In Networked Media, Networked Rhetorics, Damien Pfister explores communicative practices in networked media environments, analyzing, in particular, how the blogosphere has changed the conduct and coverage of public debate. Pfister shows how the late modern imaginary was susceptible to “deliberation...
Health Behavior
Theory, Research, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
The essential health behavior text, updated with the latest theories, research, and issues
Health Behavior: Theory, Research and Practice provides a thorough introduction to understanding and changing health behavior, core tenets of the public health role. Covering theory, applications, and...
The Return of the Public
Democracy, Power and the Case for Media Reform
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
Under the incurious gaze of the major media, the political establishment and the financial sector have become increasingly deceitful and dangerous in recent years. At the same time, journalists at Rupert Murdoch’s News International and elsewhere have been breaking the law on an industrial scale....
Public Corruption
Regional and National Perspectives on Procurement Fraud
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2017
This volume presents the latest scholarly research on the practice of public corruption. The authors explore the causes and methods of fraud-related crime, as well as how it can be detected. The book also investigates the best strategies to prevent corruption, as well as convention punishments for...
Identities, Trust, and Cohesion in Federal Systems
Public Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2019
To what extent do federal systems promote multiple identities and attachments? How do their identities affect the trust that is assigned to various orders of government and contribute to cohesion in federalist systems? Do cohesive federations depend on public trust and strong attachment to the national...
by Ivan P. Pavlov
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
At the time of its initial publication, Public Administration helped to define this field of study and practice by introducing two major new emphases: an orientation toward human behavior and human relations in organizations, and an emphasis on the interaction between administration, politics, and...
by Muhammad Abd al-Hameed
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
The present structures of public information in Pakistan were created more on the basis of their technologies than their intended functions. The long gaps between their creations also had their impact. The prevailing conditions too had their influence. The result is that the Federal Government ended...