Public ownership / nationalization

The vast majority of healthcare is provided safely and effectively.

'Marketing Research for Non-profit, Community and Creative Organizations' is a comprehensive guide to conducting research methods within the non-profit sector.

What is management?

At the turn of the 21st century, a significant boom in the construction of cultural buildings took saw the creation of hundreds of performing arts centers, theaters, and museums.

This remarkable book offers enlightening reading for everyone interested in international law, human rights, global health, public health and health promotion.

Recent social developments, such as demographic change, skill shortages and new medical technologies, have necessitated a transition in the traditional roles of health-care professions.

An increasingly important and often overlooked issue in science and technology policy is recognizing the role that philanthropies play in setting the direction of research.

First published in 1998, this timely study of an American acute care hospital examines decision making by patients and their families along with a cost analysis of social work services.

"e;Everything worth winning in life boils down to teamwork and leadership.

People with intellectual disability often experience challenges in their lives.

Tax planning can lead to considerable efficiencies, but few GPs have been trained as businessmen.

Towards a Digital Health Ecology : NHS Digital Adoption through the COVID-19 Looking Glass is about technology adoption in the UK's National Health Service (NHS) as told from the inflection point of a disaster.

Process Redesign for Health Care Using Lean Thinking is a response to a simple, but hard to answer, question and is the result of the experiences of a working doctor who was also the chief safety and quality officer of an Australian teaching hospital.

This book compares contemporary civil service systems across East and Southeast Asia, a dynamic region of greater diversity in local administrative tradition, imported models of modern administration, and the character of prevailing political institutions.

The purpose of this book is to formulate economic models of the advantages and costs of transparency in various areas of public sector activity and to assess what level of obfuscation in politics is rational.

Non-Governmental Development Organizations have seen turbulent times over the decades; however, recent years have seen them grow to occupy high-profile positions in the fight against poverty.

The study and practice of ethics, in all its exemplary and execrable forms, matter now more than ever.

Public service values are too rarely discussed in public administration courses and scholarship, despite recent research demonstrating the importance of these values in the daily decision making processes of public service professionals.

First published in 1998, this volume examines how super-optimum decisions involve finding alternatives to controversies whereby Conservatives, Liberals, or other major groups can all come out ahead of their best initial expectations simultaneously.

This book reviews that narrate the development of current technologies under the theme of the emerging concept of healthcare, specifically in terms of what makes healthcare more efficient and effective with the help of high-precision algorithms.

This title was first published in 2000: This timely volume makes a valuable contribution to our understanding of the issues faced by developing countries embarking on the path of democracy and economic development.

In view of the approaching age of austerity for the public sector, leadership is likely to continue to become a key theme.

This is the first book to analyze in depth the current causes of shortage of family physicians and the relative weakness of the family practice model in many countries in the Eastern Mediterranean Region.

The concepts of social enterprise and social entrepreneurship are rapidly attracting increased attention in academic spheres and from policy-makers, as well as field workers who are setting up new initiatives or reshaping their organizations.

First published in 1996.

This book investigates the history, development, and current state of anti-corruption agencies in Latin America.

In this book, a world-class editorial advisory board and an independent team of contributors draw on their experience in operations, leadership, and Lean managerial decision making to share helpful insights on the valuation of hospitals in today's changing reimbursement and regulatory environments.

Charities operate within an increasingly challenging environment, with competition for public engagement, funding and volunteers intensifying.

This book fills the need for a communication-based, public sector framed book.

Learn how to strategically execute public relations assignments!

Clinical trials used to be conducted overwhelmingly in the US and Europe but for a range of economic, technical and ethical reasons, the number of multicentre studies recruiting subjects in different regions of the World has grown exponentially.

Too often professional staff are thrust into the role of manager without preparation or subsequent guidance over what becoming a manager entails.

This book brings together public services policy and public services management in a novel way that is likely to resonate with academics, policy makers and practitioners engaged in the organization of public services delivery as it is from a perspective that challenges many received ideas in this field.

This book demonstrates the utility of healthcare law, policy and professional standards in analysing the ethical issues that arise in the provision of health services.

This is the third volume in the CARE-ing for Integral Development series.

The Routledge Handbook of Public Administration and Digital Governance is a comprehensive, cutting-edge guide for students, scholars, practitioners of public policy, public administration and digital governance.

This is the first book to analyze in depth the current causes of shortage of family physicians and the relative weakness of the family practice model in many countries in the Eastern Mediterranean Region.

This highly practical guide has been completely revised, updated and expanded, highlighting the changing face of dental practice today.

We have written this book because the story it tells warrants a wide audience.

COVID-19 accelerated healthcare's transition towards digital technology since it helped expand the capacity of healthcare organizations (HCOs) through extended patient access and isolation.

The biopharmaceutical industry has entered an era of unprecedented change and challenge, characterized by increasing pricing pressures, rising rates of attrition in the product development lifecycle, and decreasing scientific innovation.

The Routledge Handbook of International Local Government conducts a rigorous, innovative and distinctive analysis of local government within a comparative, international context.

Practical Customer Success Management is a complete "e;handbook for CSMs"e;, written by a customer success expert who has coached and trained many hundreds of customer success managers across the globe.

Prevailing models of organisation divide people into owners, managers and employees, forcing especially the latter to obey, to behave, and to function well within a hierarchical and managerial pecking order.

This book reframes theoretical, methodological and practical approaches to public administration by drawing on complexity theory concepts.

Medical ethics is a system of moral principles that apply values to the practice of clinical medicine and in scientific research.

The quality of cancer and palliative care is going through unprecedented change and development as a result of policy initiatives.

Service design has established itself as a practice that enables industries to design and deliver their services with a human-centred approach.

Strategic management is widely seen as essential to the public services, leading to better performance and better outcomes for the public.

Hailed for its timelessness and timeliness, Public Administration in Theory and Practice examines public administration from a normative perspective and provides students with an understanding of the practice of public administration.