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Food Fortification
The evidence, ethics, and politics of adding nutrients to food
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2013
Food Fortification: The evidence, ethics, and politics of adding nutrients to food critically analyses mandatory food fortification as a technology for protecting and promoting public health. Increasing numbers of foods fortified with novel amounts and combinations of nutrients are being introduced...
Statistical Tools for Program Evaluation
Methods and Applications to Economic Policy, Public Health, and Education
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
This book provides a self-contained presentation of the statistical tools required for evaluating public programs, as advocated by many governments, the World Bank, the European Union, and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. After introducing the methodological framework of...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
In this new, fully revised and expanded fourth edition of Public Communication Campaigns, Rice and Atkin provide readers with a comprehensive, up-to-date look into the field of public communication campaigns. The subject of campaigns has become increasingly high profile in the academic world in the...
Disabled Rights
American Disability Policy and the Fight for Equality
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2003
"Freedom and Justice for all" is a phrase that can have a hollow ring for many members of the disability community in the United States. Jacqueline Vaughn Switzer gives us a comprehensive introduction to and overview of U.S. disability policy in all facets of society, including education, the workplace,...
by Lloyd Novick
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
JPHMP's 21 Public Health Case Studies on Policy & Administration, compiled by the founding editor and current editor-in-chief of the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, provides you with real-life examples of how to strategize and execute policies and practices when confronted...
Curriculum and the Culture Wars
Debating the Bible's Place in Public Schools
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Curriculum and the Culture Wars offers a fresh perspective on perennial debates about the role of religion in public schools, focusing on the intersection of religion and curriculum. This debate has been renewed in part due to the growth of elective Bible courses in public schools in many parts of...
Congress Whispers, Reservation Nations Endure
A Century of Public Acts of Aggression, Confusion, & Resolution
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2012
A unique body of federal actions rests in near silence within the shadowy margins of all other U.S. public law. The reason is simple. It consists of laws that specifically apply to just one group of Americans: members of American Indian tribes. As such, the laws apply most directly to less than 1.5%...
Federalism in Action
The Devolution of Canada’s Public Employment Service, 1995-2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2018
Every developed country has a public employment service that connects job seekers with employers through information, placement, and training support services.In Federalism in Action, Donna E. Woodassesses how Canada’s public employment service is performing after responsibility was transferred...
by B. Guy Peters
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Making effective public policies is a difficult task, but considering policymaking as a problem of design analogous to architecture or engineering can assist in that process. This book outlines three vital components of policy design: understanding the causes behind the problem being addressed; identifying...
American Public Policy
Promise and Performance
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2018
This updated edition of American Public Policy by B. Guy Peters provides a comprehensive yet accessible overview of the policy-making process from procedural approaches and policy instruments to in-depth analysis of specific policy issues. The Eleventh Edition considers how policy has been impacted...
Societal Security and Crisis Management
Governance Capacity and Legitimacy
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2018
This book studies governance capacity* and governance legitimacy *for societal security and crisis management. It highlights the importance of building organizational capacity by focusing on the coordination of public resources and underscores the relevance of legitimacy by emphasizing the importance...
by Dennis L. Dresang
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2017
The long-awaited new edition of this highly praised text includes full coverage of policy issues and professional practice in nonprofit organizations, as well as at federal, state, and local levels of government. Retaining its accessible writing style, this sixth edition:
examines the latest...
Risking Your Health
Causes, Consequences, and Interventions to Prevent Risky Behaviors
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2013
Behaviors that pose risks for an individuals health and that also represent important threats for public health, such as drug use, smoking, alcohol, unhealthy eating causing obesity, and unsafe sex, are highly prevalent in low income countries, even though they are traditionally associated with richer...
Alcohol, Tobacco and Obesity
Morality, mortality and the new public health
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
Although drinking, smoking and obesity have attracted social and moral condemnation to varying degrees for more than two hundred years, over the past few decades they have come under intense attack from the field of public health as an 'unholy trinity' of lifestyle behaviours with apparently devastating...