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by Theodore Stein
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2004
The strong nexus between law and social work is beyond dispute: the law informs day-to-day social work practice and administration, and social workers are employed by the courts. Moreover, they work collaboratively with attorneys in legal aid offices, public defenders'offices, and other law enforcement...
Understanding and Preventing Sudden Death
Your Life Matters
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
Sudden death is an uncommon condition. But when it occurs, especially in a young person, the acute loss can generate a substantial amount of grief with a great sense of disbelief. This mysterious and dreadful condition instils much fear and anxiety into the living, and more specifically for family...
by Barnes Jeff; O'Hanlon Barbar; Feeley Frank; Kimberly McKeon; Nelson Gitonga; Caytie Decker
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2010
Kenya's private sector is one of the most developed and dynamic in Sub-Saharan Africa. In the health sector - where the leading causes of death are HIV/AIDS, acute respiratory infection, diarrheal diseases, and malaria - the private commercial (for-profit) sector and the not-for-profit sector play critical...
Communicating Terror
The Rhetorical Dimensions of Terrorism
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009
The only book to examine terrorism as a rhetorical act
*"This is an excellent text in furthering our understanding of the web of language and how it creates our mediated realities – which reflect our culture, politics, religion, economics, etc. Students really like the case studies and...
by Curtis F. J. Doebbler
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2018
Significant use has been made of the jurisprudence of the International Court of Justice because it is the principle judicial organ of the world's most universal international organization, the United Nations. Moreover, article 103 of the Charter of the United Nations makes the obligations in this...
HIV/AIDS Treatment in Resource Poor Countries
Public Health Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2012
The book focuses on HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment strategies in resource-poor settings. Contributors include HIV/AIDS researchers and public health administrators from the US, Africa, China, and Thailand. Several chapters, written by local health officials, take a close look at AIDS prevention...
The Modernization of the Nursing Workforce
Valuing the healthcare assistant
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2012
The Modernization of the Nursing Workforce: Valuing the healthcare assistant is based on recently completed research exploring the role of healthcare assistants (HCA) in acute hospitals. Whilst a support role working alongside registered nurses has been a longstanding feature of the NHS, the contemporary...
Managing Health in Africa
The Health Systems Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2018
An authoritative analysis of the challenges of public health management in Africa, based on a combined experience of more than 83 years in national and ...
by R. K. Srivastava
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2011
India has relatively poor health outcomes, despite having a well-developed administrative system, good technical skills in many fields and an extensive network of public health institutions for research, training and diagnostics. This suggests that the health system may be misdirecting its efforts, or may be poorly designed
Information Systems in hospitals and the health service
A critical report on 'Increased electronic information sharing by sexual health services' by Hunter, Ede and Whiddett
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
Literature Review from the year 2016 in the subject Medicine - Public Health, , course: MBA (Health Services Management), language: English, abstract: The paper is a critique report of Hunter, Ede and Whiddett regarding 'Increased electronic information sharing by sexual health services: Confidentiality...
by K. O'Connor
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
Why are some conflicts managed better than others? Social scientists have used various disciplinary lenses to answer this question but until now, public administration has not been used to understand how conflict is managed. This book explores the everyday management of conflict in two cases of power-sharing from the view of elite level bureaucrats
Governance and the Democratic Deficit
Assessing the Democratic Legitimacy of Governance Practices
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
It is widely acknowledged that we are witnessing a major transformation of public policy making, a transformation which has been labelled as a change from 'government' to 'governance'. Governance is used to describe policy making and implementation without a central authority in a non-hierarchical,...
Beyond Machiavelli
Policy Analysis Reaches Midlife, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
In this new edition of Beyond Machiavelli, Beryl Radin updates her popular overview of the field of policy analysis. Radin, winner of the John Gaus Award from the American Political Science Association, considers the critical issues that confront the policy analysis practitioner, changes in the field,...
The Dynamics of Performance Management
Constructing Information and Reform
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2008
Efficiency. Innovation. Results. Accountability. These, advocates claim, are the fruits of performance management. In recent decades government organizations have eagerly embraced the performance model—but the rush to reform has not delivered as promised. Drawing on research from state and federal...