Public Priority Setting: Rules and Costs


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At present we observe a decreasing role for the state in many areas where it used to be prominent. Amidst severe budgetary cuts, the state and its organs are confronted with ever louder calls for efficiency in public office (`value for money') and public performance. Simultaneously we see in many democratic welfare states the rise of new institutional forms and social organizations responding to new public priorities. Phenomena like privatization and de-regulation, new forms of regulation and self-regulation, and the rise of special issue groups are an expression of this. This book seeks to provide order in some of today's issues and to offer analysis and explanation for selected topics. The book opens with contributions on the importance of concepts of present-day institutional economics interpreting modern governmental behavior and organization. Subsequent chapters deal with new developments in various fields such as environmental management and conservation, political legitimacy, or the new roles for covenants. Audience: This volume will be of interest for scholars in the fields of public service, government studies and adjacent branches of economics, political science and law.




Setting Priorities for Clinical Practice Guidelines


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This book examines methods for selecting topics and setting priorities for clinical practice guideline development and implementation. Clinical practice guidelines are "systematically defined statements to assist practitioner and patient decisions about appropriate health care for specific clinical circumstances." In its assessment of processes for setting priorities, the committee considers the principles of consistency with the organization's mission, implementation feasibility, efficiency, utility of the results to the organization, and openness and defensibilityâ€"a principle that is especially important to public agencies. The volume also examines the implications of health care restructuring for priority setting and topic selection, including the link between national and local approaches to guidelines development.




Priority Areas for National Action


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A new release in the Quality Chasm Series, Priority Areas for National Action recommends a set of 20 priority areas that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and other groups in the public and private sectors should focus on to improve the quality of health care delivered to all Americans. The priority areas selected represent the entire spectrum of health care from preventive care to end of life care. They also touch on all age groups, health care settings and health care providers. Collective action in these areas could help transform the entire health care system. In addition, the report identifies criteria and delineates a process that DHHS may adopt to determine future priority areas.




Setting Priorities in Health Care


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The dual problems of securing access to health care and containing the increasing costs of health care delivery bring the issue of prioritization to the forefront of health care debates. This study discusses the implications and consequences of allocating priorities to certain groups.




Managing Scarcity


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Public Administration Reformation


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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. Little research exists to explore synergies between the market economy, public administration reformation, and their complex bilateral effects. This book takes a timely look at the heightened need for public administration reform as a result of the economic challenges currently faced by nations across the globe. In particular it explores the roles of eGovernment and a citizen-centric focus in this transformation. Public Administration Reform examines several commonly-held assumptions about public administration: the public sector is slow and bureaucratic; government employees are frequently disengaged; and government agencies are sometimes wasteful. eGovernment is proposed as a key tool in the improvement of both public services and reputations of public organizations.




Disease Control Priorities, Third Edition (Volume 4)


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Mental, neurological, and substance use disorders are common, highly disabling, and associated with significant premature mortality. The impact of these disorders on the social and economic well-being of individuals, families, and societies is large, growing, and underestimated. Despite this burden, these disorders have been systematically neglected, particularly in low- and middle-income countries, with pitifully small contributions to scaling up cost-effective prevention and treatment strategies. Systematically compiling the substantial existing knowledge to address this inequity is the central goal of this volume. This evidence-base can help policy makers in resource-constrained settings as they prioritize programs and interventions to address these disorders.




ICAS-PGS 2019


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Following the successful of previous conference, 3rd International Conference on Administrative Science, Policy, and Governance Studies (ICAS-PGS) in strategic alliance with 4th International Conference of Business Administration and Policy (ICBAP) 2019 will be held on October 30-31, 2019 in Universitas Indonesia, Depok, West Java, Indonesia. This year’s conference theme is “Strengthening Strategic Administrative Reform Policy to Promote Competitiveness and Innovation in Industrial Revolution 4.0: The Opportunities and Challenges.” This conference is hosted by Faculty of Administrative Science Universitas Indonesia (FIA UI). The conference covers debates over problematic situation, theoretical frameworks, as well as prescribed policies the way that governments, businesses, and civil societies essentially need to outline strategies to realize reform commitment and achieve change efficacy for purposes of harnessing innovation while considering the opportunities and challenges as well as maintaining sustainability, engaging in a more dynamic predicament such as regulatory frameworks that affect relations of multiple governance actors in today’s dynamic towards Industrial Revolution 4.0. The main objective of this conference is to discuss and debate the recent trends in administrative science on a range of issues such as public, business, and fiscal and the interconnectedness of all in Industrial Revolution 4.0. This conference is aimed to bring researchers, academicians, scientists, policymakers, professional managers, students, and other related stakeholders; together to participate and present their latest research findings, developments, and practical solutions related to the various aspects of administrative challenges in public and private sector. The general theme of 3rd ICAS-PGS and 4th ICBAP 2019 is “Strengthening Strategic Administrative Reform Policy to Promote Competitiveness and Innovation in Industrial Revolution 4.0: The Opportunities and Challenges.” The conferences consist of three streams representing differences of focus and scopes of research interests within the discipline of public, business, and fiscal administration and policy. We convey our gratitude to our esteemed Committee, Speakers and Participants, for giving their best to the success of the conference




The World Health Report 2000


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Includes table of health system attainment and performance in all member states (191), ranked by eight measures.




Democratic Policy Implementation in an Ambiguous World


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The hard part of government is not passing new laws but implementing those laws. Implementation is where high-minded ideas are pushed and prodded into the chaos that is the real world. Often, this leads to unintended consequences as ideas are transformed into actions. For better or worse, policy implementation occurs within organized anarchies marred by ambiguity where who pays attention to what and when is the most important determinant of outcomes. While the new law serves as a cue, implementers must figure out how to make it functional in the best way possible and how to institutionalize it to establish new norms that endure. In unpacking an argument of how and why patterns of policy implementation manifest as they do, Luke Fowler takes the reader through a journey of how policymakers, organizations, and entrepreneurs shape the way implementers understand policies and translate them into action under ambiguous circumstances. The result is a complex picture of why some policies work in practice and others do not.