Kant Patel, Mark E Rushefsky

The Politics of Public Health in the United States

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Our public health system is primarily concerned with the promotion of health and the prevention of disease. But while everyone may agree with these goals in principle, in practice public health is a highly contentious policy arena. that is inevitably entangled with sensitive issues ranging from occupational safety and environmental hazards to health education, immunization, and treatment of addiction and sexually transmitted disease. Today however, concern for protecting the population against bio-terrorism and new epidemics such as SARS is tipping the balance back toward increased support for public health. This book focuses on the politics, policies, and methodologies of public health and the twenty-first century challenges to the public health system of the United States. It explores the system's relatively weak position in the American political culture, medical establishment, and legal system; scientific and privacy issues in public health; and the challenges posed by ecological risk and the looming threat of bio-terrorist attack. Each chapter includes study questions. The volume also includes a chronology of major laws and events in public health policy along with an extensive bibliography.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Dezember 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 533g
• ISBN-13: 9780765611369
• ISBN-10: 0765611368
• Artikelnr.: 22411184

Autorenporträt

Kant Patel, Mark E Rushefsky

Inhaltsangabe

This text provides a comprehensive introduction to the new field of
knowledge management. It approaches the subject from a management rather
than a highly technical point of view, and provides students with a
state-of-the-art survey of KM and its implementation in diverse
organizations. The text covers the nature of knowledge (tacit and
explicit), the origins and units of organizational knowledge, and the
evolution of knowledge management in contemporary society. It explores the
implementation and utilization of knowledge management systems, and how to
measure their impact, outputs, and benefits. The book includes a variety of
original case studies that illustrate specific situations in which the
absence or existence of knowledge management systems has been crucial to
the organization's actions. Charts and figures throughout help clarify more
complex phenomena and classifications, and each chapter includes review
questions and a comprehensive index.