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UNINA9910783226203321 |
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Building blocks for tobacco control [[electronic resource] ] : a handbook |
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Geneva, Switzerland, : World Health Organization, c2004 |
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1-280-14136-0 |
9786610141364 |
1-4175-7775-4 |
92-4-068014-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (320 p.) |
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Tools for advancing tobacco control in the 21st century |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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DavidAnnette |
SilvaVera da Costa e |
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Disciplina |
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Smoking - Prevention |
Tobacco use - Prevention |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Editors and primary contributors: Vera Luiza daCosta e Silva, Annette David--P. ix. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Preliminaries; Contents; 1. Tobacco as a risk factor health social and economic costs; 2. The tobacco industry; 3. Tobacco control interventions: the scientific evidence; 4. The WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control; 5. Developing a national plan of action; 6. Establishing effective infrastructure for national tobacco control programme; 7. Training and education; 8. Communication and public awareness to build critical mass; 9. Working with the media; 10. Programming selected tobacco control activities; 11. Legislative and regulatory measures |
12. Exploring economic measures and funding initiatives13. Countering the tobacco industry; 14. Forming effective partnerships; 15. Monitoring, surveillance, evaluation and reporting; 16. Research and exchange of information |
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This publication aims to provide practical guidance to all those involved in the management of blood programmes. Following an introduction to the blood cold chain management process, seven chapters provide a detailed description of blood bank refrigerators, plasma freezers, platelet agitators, plasma thawing equipment, blood transport boxes |
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and coolants, temperature monitoring devices, as well as other blood cold chain accessories. Each chapter provides WHO minimum performance specifications for the equipment, and selected product information on equipment evaluated by WHO. A specific chapter i |
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UNINA9910782148603321 |
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Autore |
Fairlie Robert W |
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Race and entrepreneurial success : Black-, Asian-, and white-owned businesses in the United States / / Robert W. Fairlie and Alicia M. Robb |
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Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2008 |
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0-262-27247-4 |
1-4356-5496-X |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (253 p.) |
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Minority business enterprises - United States |
African American business enterprises |
Asian American business enterprises |
Entrepreneurship - United States |
Small business - United States |
Success in business - United States |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [215-230) and index. |
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A comprehensive analysis of racial disparities and the determinants of entrepreneurial performance--in particular, why Asian-owned businesses on average perform relatively well and why black-owned businesses typically do not.Thirteen million people in the United States--roughly one in ten workers--own a business. And yet rates of business ownership among African Americans are much lower and have been so throughout the twentieth century. In addition, and perhaps more importantly, businesses owned by African Americans tend to have lower sales, fewer employees and smaller payrolls, lower profits, and higher closure rates. In contrast, Asian American-owned businesses |
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tend to be more successful. In Race and Entrepreneurial Success, minority entrepreneurship authorities Robert Fairlie and Alicia Robb examine racial disparities in business performance. Drawing on the rarely used, restricted-access Characteristics of Business Owners (CBO) dataset compiled by the U.S. Census Bureau, Fairlie and Robb examine in particular why Asian-owned firms perform well in comparison to white-owned businesses and black-owned firms typically do not. They also explore the broader question of why some entrepreneurs are successful and others are not. After providing new comprehensive estimates of recent trends in minority business ownership and performance, the authors examine the importance of human capital, financial capital, and family business background in successful business ownership. They find that a high level of startup capital is the most important factor contributing to the success of Asian-owned businesses, and that the lack of startup money for black businesses (attributable to the fact that nearly half of all black families have less than $6,000 in total wealth) contributes to their relative lack of success. In addition, higher education levels among Asian business owners explain much of their success relative to both white- and African American-owned businesses. Finally, Fairlie and Robb find that black entrepreneurs have fewer opportunities than white entrepreneurs to acquire valuable pre-business work experience through working in family businesses. |
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