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A public health crisis is gripping the UK. Improvements in life expectancy have stalled, health inequalities have widened, obesity and alcohol misuse are placing an increasing strain on health services and urban air pollution is now widely recognised as a serious health hazard. COVID-19 revealed the weaknesses of the UK's public health system, once thought to be among the best in the world. Against this background, this book examines the organisational...
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Taylor gives a brief history, geared specifically to an American audience, of the evolution of the Canadian national health insurance system from the 1940s to the late 1980s. He describes the two Canadian programs -- hospital insurance and medical insurance -- and discusses the major changes in the programs since they were implemented. Originally published in 1990.A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital...
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ObamaCare is a complex law that will affect every single American. Everyone has an opinion about ObamaCare, but few people actually understand how the Affordable Care Act works. ObamaCare Simplified navigates you through the intricacies of the health care law and explains what it means for you. Whether you are satisfied with your present insurance or seeking to get insured, ObamaCare Simplified informs you of your rights, presents the facts, and will...
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Pandemic Pandemonium-A World in Conflict was written because the threats of force by government coercion, fueled by mainstream media, are in violation of people's basic human rights and are intended to intimidate and coerce a civilian population. People around the world are protesting because of what they believe is the loss of liberty and freedom due to the illegal mandates and suppression of their rights because of this global Pandemic.
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Over the last twenty years, our economy and our society, from how we shop and pay our bills to how we communicate, have been completely revolutionized by technology. As Aneesh Chopra shows in Innovative State, once it became clear how much this would change America, a movement arose around the idea that these same technologies could reshape and improve government. But the idea languished, and while the private sector innovated, our government stalled;...
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When the "don't ask, don't tell" policy emerged as a political compromise under Bill Clinton in 1993, it only ended up worsening the destructive gay ban that had been on the books since World War II. Drawing on more than a decade of research and hundreds of interviews, Nathaniel Frank exposes the military's policy toward gays and lesbians as damaging and demonstrates that "don't ask, don't tell" must be replaced with an outright reversal of the gay...
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Weisheit gilt als Schlüssel zu einem sinnerfüllten und glücklichen Leben – nur wie findet man sie?
In den Lehren der Weltreligionen und bei großen Denker*innen entdeckt der französische Philosoph und Bestsellerautor Frédéric Lenoir Antworten auf die entscheidenden Fragen des Lebens. Inspiriert von Montaigne, Nietzsche oder Spinoza, gibt er konkrete Ratschläge, was wirklich wichtig ist, wie wir uns selbst besser kennenlernen und mit der Welt...
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Die »Letzte Generation« löst Beifallsstürme und Spendenfluten aus. Gleichzeitig provoziert sie Selbstjustiz auf blockierten Kreuzungen, drastische Urteile strafwütiger Gerichte und Hetztiraden bis zum Terrorismusvorwurf. Der langjährige Umweltaktivist und engagierte Unterstützer provokanter Aktionen Jörg Bergstedt zeigt in seiner ebenso hellsichtigen wie lustvoll Partei ergreifenden »Analyse goes Streitschrift« die existenzielle Bedeutung...
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Over the past half-century, think tanks have become fixtures of American politics, supplying advice to presidents and policy makers, expert testimony on Capitol Hill, and convenient facts and figures to journalists and media specialists. But what are think tanks? Who funds them? What kind of research do they produce? Where does their authority come from? And how influential have they become?
In Think Tanks in America, Thomas Medvetz argues that the...
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Despite recent achievements in the South Korean economy and development within welfare institutions, new forms of precarious work continue to prevail. This book introduces the concept of 'melting labour', which refers to the blurring of boundaries between traditional forms of work and workplace and the dissolution of standard employment relationships. Presenting a theoretical framework at the intersection of 'melting labour' and institutional protection...
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A controversial hit that sparked debate among businessmen, environmentalists, and bloggers, The Long Emergency by James Howard Kunstler is an eye-opening look at the unprecedented challenges we face in the years ahead, as oil runs out and the global systems built on it are forced to change radically.
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Some of the chief aims of President Ronald Reagan's economic agenda were to reduce the "regulatory burden," minimize state intervention, and reinvigorate market mechanisms. Toward these ends, his administration limited antitrust enforcement to technical cases of price-fixing, invoking the doctrine of the Chicago school of economics. In Antitrust and the Triumph of Economics, Marc Eisner shows that the so-called "Reagan revolution" was but an extension...
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Pleinement ancrées à gauche, les idées qu'Elio Di Rupo émet témoignent d'une ferme détermination à ne pas accepter la société telle qu'elle est. Il est convaincu qu'il est possible de réveiller la démocratie et d'offrir des perspectives d'émancipation et d'autonomie aux citoyens, en particulier aux jeunes. Il promeut l'écosocialisme et l'individualisation des droits sociaux. Il entend lier les salaires à l'utilité sociale d'un emploi,...
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A much-needed and hard-hitting plan, from one of the great Democratic minds of our time, to reform America's broken health-care system.
Undoubtedly, the biggest domestic policy issue in the coming years will be America's health-care system. Millions of Americans go without medical care because they can't afford it, and many others are mired in debt because they can't pay their medical bills. It's hard to think of another public policy problem that...
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Ahora más que nunca es necesario tanto plantear las preguntas adecuadas como evitar posibles respuestas basadas en ideas preconcebidas. Y ese es precisamente el objetivo de este libro, que intenta averiguar cuáles y cómo han sido los consensos básicos entre los españoles, cómo se han desarrollado los gobiernos que han guiado el país, de qué manera se han gestionado las crisis que se han sufrido o qué estrategias se han desplegado para cooperar...
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This book presents analyses of the concepts of public health, sustainability and policy change. It describes stakeholder analysis and national health accounts frameworks in Gambia. The case study is the Sustainability Impact Assessment framework and its role in policy change in immunization systems.
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Weltweit zählt die Freimaurerbewegung sechs Millionen Mitglieder. In jüngster Zeit sind sie aufgrund populistischer Romane als Weltverschwörer wieder in aller Munde. Und doch kaum jemand weiß, woher sie stammen, wer sie sind, und was sie wirklich tun. Tom Goeller, selbst Freimaurer, befasst sich nicht nur mit den Ursprüngen der philosophischen Vereinigung, die sich teils begründet, teils spekulativ auf die mittelalterlichen Bauhütten zurückführen...
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Never underestimate the underdog.
In the fall of 1973, the Greek oil shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis, husband of President John F. Kennedy's widow, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, and arguably the richest man in the world, proposed to build an oil refinery on the narrow New Hampshire coast, in the town of Durham. At the time, it would have cost $600 million to build and was expected to generate 400,000 barrels of oil per day, making it the largest...
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Rick Santorum made his name in the 2012 presidential race with his principled conservatism. To understand Santorum's worldview and vision for America, there is no better source than his New York Times bestselling book, It Takes a Family. It Takes a Family is one of the most profound and comprehensive books of political thought ever written by a politician. Santorum offers a penetrating look at the social, political, and economic shifts that have hurt...
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