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In "Stop Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect Before It Starts," Debra
Savage speaks not only to caregivers and receivers, but also to the
families, spouses, and children of nursing home patients. She
addresses the growing phenomenon of abuse and neglect in nursing
homes across the United States-and what families can do to prevent
it.
Savage's mission is to help others become informed family
advocates-to help prevent our loved ones and family members from
becoming victims of abuse or neglect, while others turn their backs
and do or say nothing. She aims to help other families who have
loved ones in nursing homes or those who are considering placing
their family members in nursing homes by providing consumers with
accurate and detailed information, along with resources, should a
loved one or someone they know become a victim of nursing home
neglect or abuse.
This no-nonsense guide provides vital information that will
assist families in making the toughest decision of their lives,
while providing the steps to take to insure that their time in the
nursing home is positive.
This narrative and empirical analysis investigates Hilary's claim
that in his day they would not have left a man behind to die. The
authors examine over 60 years of Himalayan climbing data and
stories in order to test the changes in cooperation in this extreme
life and death environment.
Every government engages in budgeting and public financial
management to run the affairs of state. Effective budgeting
empowers states to prioritize policies, allocate resources, and
discipline bureaucracies, and it contributes to efficacious fiscal
and macroeconomic policies. Budgeting can be transparent,
participatory, and promote democratic decision-making, or it can be
opaque, hierarchical, and encourage authoritarian rule. This book
compares budgetary systems around the world by examining the
economic, political, cultural, and institutional contexts in which
they are formulated, adopted, and executed. The second edition has
been updated with new data to offer a more expansive set of
national case studies, with examples of budgeting in China, India,
Indonesia, Iraq, and Nigeria. Chapters also discuss Brexit and the
European Union's struggle to require balances budgets during the
Euro Debt Crisis. Additionally, the authors provide a deeper
analysis of developments in US budgetary policies from the
Revolutionary War through the Trump presidency.
Consistent with the literature on state building, failed states,
peacekeeping and foreign assistance, this book argues that
budgeting is a core state activity necessary for the operation of a
functional government. Employing a historical institutionalist
approach, this book first explores the Ottoman, British and
Ba'athist origins of Iraq's budgetary institutions. The book next
examines American pre-war planning, the Coalition Provisional
Authority's rule-making and budgeting following the invasion of
Iraq in 2003, and the mixed success of the Coalition's
capacity-building programs initiated throughout the occupation.
This book sheds light on the problem of 'outsiders' building
states, contributes to a more comprehensive evaluation of the
Coalition in Iraq, addresses the question of why Iraqis took
ownership of some Coalition-generated institutions, and helps
explain the nature of institutional change.
Every government engages in budgeting and public financial
management to run the affairs of state. Effective budgeting
empowers states to prioritize policies, allocate resources, and
discipline bureaucracies, and it contributes to efficacious fiscal
and macroeconomic policies. Budgeting can be transparent,
participatory, and promote democratic decision-making, or it can be
opaque, hierarchical, and encourage authoritarian rule. This book
compares budgetary systems around the world by examining the
economic, political, cultural, and institutional contexts in which
they are formulated, adopted, and executed. The second edition has
been updated with new data to offer a more expansive set of
national case studies, with examples of budgeting in China, India,
Indonesia, Iraq, and Nigeria. Chapters also discuss Brexit and the
European Union's struggle to require balances budgets during the
Euro Debt Crisis. Additionally, the authors provide a deeper
analysis of developments in US budgetary policies from the
Revolutionary War through the Trump presidency.
This fifth volume of Advances in Health Care Management examines
international health care management. It consists of 12 papers, one
of which serves as an introduction, with the other papers arranged
into three sections. The first section on patients and providers
focuses on such issues as how socio-cultural forces affect the
health care experience; how hospital providers function differently
under various governance structures; how global strategies affect
providers and patients; and why and how provider organizations
should consider integrating within a health delivery system. The
second section on policy and management addresses such dilemmas as
whether some health care issues are impossible to solve through
traditional policy reforms; how international refugees should
receive health care; and whether policy reform lessons from other
countries can be adapted and applied to transform another country's
health system. The third and final section on performance and
management addresses issues such as whether the quality of care can
be managed at the hospital level, how human resource management can
be benchmarked within and across health care organizations, how
health care informatics and telemedicine can improve the continuity
of care, and whether different ways of accessing care within health
systems can be systemically compared and improved.
Authors from Australia, Chile, Finland, France, Germany, Greece,
South Africa, Taiwan, the United Kingdom, and the United States of
America contributed to this volume. They explore the delivery and
organization of care in health systems from Africa, Asia,
Australia, Europe, North America, and South America, encompassing
more than 20countries in their comparisons. The papers included in
this volume were only accepted following a rigorous peer review
process. Each paper, whether solicited or responding to our open
call, went through a double-blind review and revision process. The
result is a select collection of outstanding papers.
Since the 1950s, the federal government has relied on the peer review system for funding academic science. Peer review, however, is under attack for being a biased system that helps rich research universities get richer. As a remedy for these biases, university presidents and members of Congress have turned to the earmarking of science projects and facilities in the federal budget. Funding Science in America explores both the pros and the cons of the academic earmarking issue and explains why this issue has caused a rift within the nation's science community.
Since the 1950s, the federal government has relied on the peer review system for funding academic science. Peer review, however, is under attack for being a biased system that helps rich research universities get richer. As a remedy for these biases, university presidents and members of Congress have turned to the earmarking of science projects and facilities in the federal budget. Funding Science in America explores both the pros and the cons of the academic earmarking issue and explains why this issue has caused a rift within the nation's science community.
The disposal of radioactive waste is a central issue in the future
of nuclear power and poses considerable technical, political and
social issues. This book addresses these topics in an integrated
fashion using performance assessment of the disposal concept as a
unifying theme. Subjects addressed include: regulatory criteria;
waste types, sources and characteristics; man-made or "engineered"
barriers; the selection and evaluation of geological disposal
media; the use of underground research laboratories; the movement
of radionuclides in the biosphere; repository performance
assessment tools and approaches; addressing uncertainty and spatial
variability; assessing information from natural systems; and
looking at radioactive waste in relation to other wastes. The book
provides an up-to-date picture of radioactive waste disposal issues
and will be of interest to scientists, engineers and consultants
working in the nuclear industry and the environmental field.
The Maastricht Treaty and the Stability Growth Pact demand that EU
member states comply with their famous deficit and debt
requirements of three and sixty per cent of GDP. Yet, how can the
EU's leaders be certain that these targets are met? Is a three per
cent deficit in Belgium equivalent to one in Italy or France?
Making the EMU explores how the Treaty's budgetary surveillance
procedure monitors member state budgetary policies, harmonizes
their budgetary data, and effectively determines which member
states qualified for member status and are subject to the Pact's
sanctions. This book provides the first examination of how the EU
entrusted the credibility of these critical budgetary figures to a
relatively minor European Commission agency, and what effect the
surveillance procedure has on the making of the EMU and the
enforcement of Maastricht.
The Maastricht Treaty and the Stability Growth Pact demand that EU
member states comply with their famous deficit and debt
requirements of 3 and 60 per cent of GDP. Yet, how can the EU's
leaders be certain that these targets are met? Is a 3 per cent
deficit in Belgium equivalent to one in Italy or France?
Making the EMU explores how the Treaty's budgetary surveillance
procedure monitors member state budgetary policies, harmonizes
their budgetary data, and effectively determines which member
states qualified for member status and are subject to the Pact's
sanctions. This book provides the first examination of how the EU
entrusted the credibility of these critical budgetary figures to a
relatively minor European Commission agency, and what effect the
surveillance procedure has on the making of the EMU and the
enforcement of Maastricht.
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the
original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as
marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe
this work is culturally important, we have made it available as
part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting
the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions
that are true to the original work.
Sir Robert Lorimer, who practised in Edinburgh between 1893 and
1929 was an architect whose deep response to Scotland's landscape
and its crafts is expressed as vividly by his letters as by his
buildings. This is the study of Lorimer, one of Scotland's foremost
20th-century architects.
A powerful and inspiring biography of Merze Tate, a trailblazing
Black woman scholar and intrepid world traveler  Born in
rural Michigan during the Jim Crow era, the bold and irrepressible
Merze Tate (1905–1996) refused to limit her intellectual
ambitions, despite living in what she called a “sex and race
discriminating world.†Against all odds, through her brilliance
and hard work Tate earned degrees in international relations from
Oxford University in 1935 and a doctorate in government from
Harvard in 1941. She then joined the faculty of Howard University,
where she taught for three decades of her long life spanning the
tumultuous twentieth century. Â This book revives and
critiques Tate’s prolific and prescient body of scholarship, with
topics ranging from nuclear arms limitations to race and
imperialism in Asia, the Pacific, and Africa. Tate credited her
success to other women, Black and white, who helped her realize her
dream of becoming a scholar. Her quest for adventure took her
around the world twice, traveling solo with her cameras. Â
Barbara Savage’s lucid and skilled rendering of Tate’s story is
built on more than a decade of research. Tate’s life and work
challenge provincial approaches to African American and American
history, women’s history, the history of education, diplomatic
history, and international thought.
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