Public ownership / nationalization

How do we provide effective public services in a deeply neoliberal world?

Recognizing the growing significance of innovation and entrepreneurship in the field of health education, this novel volume discusses digital skills, collaborative learning and contemporary curricular challenges in order to foster innovative and entrepreneurial mindsets.

Philanthropy is both timeless and timely.

The latest methods for more effective information dissemination are explored in this challenging volume.

Today, more than ever, organizations have to cope with increased concerns regarding privacy issues.

In both the developed world and the third world public enterprise has come to assume considerable importance in the structure and development of national economies.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the intersection of computational intelligence, health informatics, and computer-aided diagnosis (CAD).

This brand new textbook presents a new approach to the teaching and understanding of global health.

Performance Measurement in Non-Profit Organizations: The Road to Integrated Reporting addresses the issue of performance measurement in nonprofit companies with the aim of defining a system of useful measures to understand, manage, and improve the performance of such companies by employing systems theory to examine their conditions of existence and manifestations of life.

This book gives examples from healthcare institutions that are using IT automation and innovation to drive change and provides guidance on the strategic direction of HIT over the next five years.

The Hidden Power of Systems Thinking: Governance in a Climate Emergency is a persuasive, lively book that shows how systems thinking can be harnessed to effect profound, complex change.

Drawing on decades of experience in the charity sector and enriched by real life examples, this book helps readers to consider how to be a more resilient leader and explores why a whole life approach could be a gamechanger in today's world.

This book provides a detailed description of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in China with respect to both efficiency and income distribution.

Due to the countless variables that affect revenue and cost, the hospital reimbursement process is by far the most complex of any industry.

"e;I recommend that all members of the health community read this book to obtain a real snapshot of how the Intelligent Health System is being transformed via new technologies.

Today, with physician and hospital reimbursement being cut and tied to quality incentives, physicians and health plans are revisiting the concept of integration.

In an attempt to instil trust in their performance, credibility, integrity, efficiency, cost-effectiveness, and good governance, many public organizations are in effect viewing tax-paying citizens as consumers.

Super series are a set of workbooks to accompany the flexible learning programme specifically designed and developed by the Institute of Leadership & Management (ILM) to support their Level 3 Certificate in First Line Management.

Leadership in the Pharmaceutical Industry focuses on leadership in pharmaceutical organisations at three levels: individual, team, and organisational.

Academia is an important site for producing knowledge, which is crucial in driving economies and societies around the globe at the beginning of the 21st century.

Fundamentals of Health at Work is an engaging re-assessment of workplace health, with particular emphasis on the neglected issues of the social context of the working environment and the impact on individuals of their workplaces.

Managing Change in Museums and Galleries is the first practical book to provide guidance on how to deal with organisational change in museums, galleries or heritage organisations.

Responding to the public concern caused by recent hospital scandals and accounts of unintended harm to patients, this author draws on her experience of analysing the health care systems of over a dozen countries and examines whether greater regulation has increased patient safety and health care quality.

This collection provides a comprehensive, state-of-the art review of current research in the field of New Public Management (NPM) reform.

Public procurement affects a substantial share of world trade flows, amounting to 1000 billion euros per year.

While innovation has long been a major topic of research and scholarly interest for the private sector, it is still an emerging theme in the field of public management.

Public Personnel Management has served as an essential, concise reader for public personnel and human resource management courses in the fields of public administration, political science, and public policy for more than 30 years.

Elections are a fundamental element of democracy, since elected governments reflect voter preferences.

In patient care, inaccuracy often leads to error: the patient does not receive the right medication, the nurse is mistaken about the patient, the doctor is mistaken about the condition.

Academia is an important site for producing knowledge, which is crucial in driving economies and societies around the globe at the beginning of the 21st century.

In many countries and sectors, public procurement is developing from a functional orientation to an effective socio-economic policy lever.

The Dark Side of Emotional Labour explores the work that the rest of society would rather not think about, the often unseen work that is emotionally disturbing, exhausting, upsetting, and stigmatising.

The CMIO Survival Guide is the handbook for the new Chief Medical Information Officer, as well as for those recruiting or planning to recruit a CMIO.

Reconstructing Medical Practice examines how doctors see health care and their place in it, why they remain in medicine and why they are limited in their ability to lead change in the current system.

Big Data is a concept of major relevance in today's world, sometimes highlighted as a key asset for productivity growth, innovation, and customer relationship, whose popularity has increased considerably during the last years.

Multi-Criteria Decision Making Theory and Applications in Sustainable Healthcare, 1st Edition, is an excellent compilation of current and advanced Multi-Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) techniques and their applications to multiple recent and innovative healthcare analytics problems.

Discover the successful marketing strategies of programs which have extended the resources of a university to its community.

This work includes a foreword by lynne Maher.

This important new book offers public administration scholars, practitioners, and students a comprehensive resource to make sense of identity and equity, two of the most crucial, yet complex, concepts for public decision-makers to address.

In the 21st century governments are increasingly focusing on designing ways and means of connecting across boundaries to achieve goals.

Amidst the exponentially growing interest in "e;work as a calling,"e; contemporary discussions have taken an individualistic turn away from the earlier prosocial character that once marked this orientation to work.

This book is a practical guide for individuals responsible for creating products that are safe, effective, usable, and satisfying in the hands of the intended users.

The fourth industrial revolution, characterized by digitization, artificial intelligence and augmented reality, and megatrends such as globalization, urbanization, demographic changes, and the knowledge-based economy, will trigger a series of profound technological, economic, social and environmental changes that will permanently and irreversibly change the role of the state in meeting social needs.

The new edition of this acclaimed book comprehensively updates its timely advocacy of the need for good quality palliative care, today more necessary than ever.

State governments are responsible for most of the direct domestic spending that affects the well-being of their citizens.

The text discusses synthesis, processing, design, simulation and characterization of biomaterials for biomedical applications.

If the furious debate around the state of healthcare in the US has led to any consensus, it's that the system should be delivering better quality for less cost than it does.

The rates of medical bullying, absences by LGBT+ professionals due to lack of safety in the workplace, and subsequent suicidality for LGBT+ youth and adults are exponentially higher than for non-LGBT+ youth and adults.

Human resource management (HRM) can aid nonprofit organizations (NPOs) in facing uncertain, changing environments of funding pressures, increasing competition and demand for services as well as internal challenges.

How does a medical practice thrive in a business environment where the margin of management error has all but disappeared?