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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782814703321

Autore

Butler Eamonn

Titolo

The best  book on the market [[electronic resource] ] : how to stop worrying and love the free economy / / Eamonn Butler

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chichester, UK ; ; Hoboken, NJ, : Capstone, 2008

ISBN

1-906465-99-1

1-282-37195-9

9786612371950

1-906465-13-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (174 p.)

Disciplina

330.12/2

Soggetti

Free enterprise

Entrepreneurship

Competition

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

The Best Book on the Market; Contents; Acknowledgements; CHAPTER ONE: The Amazing World of Markets; CHAPTER TWO: How Specialization and Exchange Make Us Rich; CHAPTER THREE: The Instant Messaging System of Price; CHAPTER FOUR: Killing the Messenger; CHAPTER FIVE: The Driving Force of Competition; CHAPTER SIX: The Rules of the Market; CHAPTER SEVEN: Market Failure (and Government Failure); CHAPTER EIGHT: The Morality of the Market; CHAPTER NINE: How to Grow a Market; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The free market makes the world go around. Maybe it's time we all tried to understand it a little better. Luckily Eamonn Butler is the ideal teacher to get us all up to speed. Markets are everywhere. But how many of us understand how they work, and why? What does a 'free market' really mean? Do free markets actually exist? Should we have more or less of them? Most of all - do we really need to know all this? Answer: Yes we do. MAKING ECONOMICS SIMPLE SO THAT EVEN POLITICIANS CAN UNDERSTAND IT If any mention of free markets sends your mind screaming back to your musty old school economics



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910962011903321

Titolo

Improving health in the community : a role for performance monitoring / / Committee on Using Performance Monitoring to Improve Community Health ; Jane S. Durch, Linda A. Bailey, and Michael A. Stoto, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C., : National Academy Press, 1997

ISBN

9780309175371

0309175372

9780309520812

0309520819

9780585021065

0585021066

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (496 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

DurchJane

BaileyLinda A

StotoMichael A

Disciplina

362.1/2

Soggetti

Community health services - United States - Evaluation

Health status indicators - United States

Health promotion - United States

Community Health Services - standards

Community Health Planning - administration

Community Health Planning - methods

Health Status Indicators

Quality Assurance, Health Care - organization & administration

United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Front Matter""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Contents""; ""Executive Summary""; ""1 Introduction""; ""2 Understanding Health and Its Determinants""; ""3 Managing a Shared Responsibility for the Health of a Community""; ""4 A Community Health Improvement Process""; ""5



Measurement Tools for a Community Health Improvement Process""; ""6 Conclusions and Recommendations""; ""A Prototype Performance Indicator Sets""; ""A.1 Prototype Indicator Set: Breast and Cervical Cancers""; ""A.2 Prototype Indicator Set: Depression""; ""A.3 Prototype Indicator Set: Elder Health""

""A.4 Prototype Indicator Set: Environmental and Occupational Lead Poisoning""""A.5 Prototype Indicator Set: Health Care Resource Allocation""; ""A.6 Prototype Indicator Set: Infant Health""; ""A.7 Prototype Indicator Set: Tobacco and Health""; ""A.8 Prototype Indicator Set: Vaccine-Preventable Diseases""; ""A.9 Prototype Indicator Set: Violence""; ""B Methodological Issues in Developing Community Health Profiles and Performance Indicator Sets""; ""Using Performance Monitoring to Improve Community Health: Exploring the Issues""

""D Using Performance Monitoring to Improve Community Health: Conceptual Framework and Community Experience""""E Committee Biographies""; ""Acronyms""; ""Index""

Sommario/riassunto

How do communities protect and improve the health of their populations? Health care is part of the answer but so are environmental protections, social and educational services, adequate nutrition, and a host of other activities. With concern over funding constraints, making sure such activities are efficient and effective is becoming a high priority. Improving Health in the Community explains how population-based performance monitoring programs can help communities point their efforts in the right direction. Within a broad definition of community health, the committee addresses factors surrounding the implementation of performance monitoring and explores the "why" and "how to" of establishing mechanisms to monitor the performance of those who can influence community health. The book offers a policy framework, applies a multidimensional model of the determinants of health, and provides sets of prototype performance indicators for specific health issues. Improving Health in the Community presents an attainable vision of a process that can achieve community-wide health benefits.