Spin Doctors
Spin Doctors

Author: Nora Loreto

Publisher: Fernwood Publishing

Published: 2021-11-24T00:00:00Z

Total Pages: 398

ISBN-13: 1773635069

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As Canada was in the grips of the worst pandemic in a century, Canadian media struggled to tell the story. Newsrooms, already run on threadbare budgets, struggled to make broader connections that could allow their audience to better understand what was really happening, and why. Politicians and public health officials were mostly given the benefit of the doubt that what they said was true and that they acted in good faith. This book documents each month of the first year of the pandemic and examines the issues that emerged, from racialized workers to residential care to policing. It demonstrates how politicians and uncritical media shaped the popular understanding of these issues and helped to justify the maintenance of a status quo that created the worst ravages of the crisis. Spin Doctors argues alternative ways in which Canadians should understand the big themes of the crisis and create the necessary knowledge to demand large-scale change.

COVID-19, Public Management, and Survival of East European Democracies
COVID-19, Public Management, and Survival of East European Democracies

Author: James W. Peterson

Publisher: Lexington Books

Published: 2024-04-16

Total Pages: 183

ISBN-13: 1666925179

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COVID-19, Public Management, and Survival of East European Democracies centers initially on the development of democracy in fourteen states of Eastern Europe, with an emphasis on the distinction between the seven Baltic and East Central European states in the north and the seven Balkan states in the south. Examination of key events of the political history of the two regions reveals that a participant political culture as the anchor of democracy was more developed in the north than in the south. Important measures of democracy as well as election results during the 2020-22 period of the COVID-19 outbreak demonstrate and reinforce the same distinctions between the two regions. Further, this detailed study of public administration problems such as corruption, accountability, trust, and the number of deaths from COVID-19 also disclose that such problems characterized both regions but were more pronounced in the southern states. In addition, the rise of populism and authoritarianism injected severe challenges in the midst of administrative preoccupation with the many harmful effects of the virus.

The 5 Years Before You Retire, Updated Edition
The 5 Years Before You Retire, Updated Edition

Author: Emily Guy Birken

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2021-05-11

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 1507213611

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Learn everything you need to do in the next five years to create a realistic plan for your retirement with clear, practical advice that is sure to set your future up for success. Most people don’t realize they haven’t saved enough for their retirement until their sixties and by then, it’s often too late to save enough for a comfortable retirement. The 5 Years Before You Retire has helped thousands of people prepare for retirement—even if they waited until the last minute. In this new and updated edition, you’ll find out everything you need to do in the next five years to maximize your current savings and create a realistic plan for your future. Including recent changes in financial planning, taxes, Social Security, healthcare, insurance, and more, this book is the all-inclusive guide to each financial, medial, and familial decision. From taking advantage of the employer match your company offers for your 401k to enrolling in Medicare to discussing housing options with your family, you are completely covered on every aspect of retirement planning. These straightforward strategies explain in detail how you can make the most of your last few years in the workforce and prepare for the future you’ve always wanted. Whether you just started devising a plan or have been saving since your first job, The 5 Years Before You Retire, Updated Edition, will tell you exactly what you need to know to ensure you live comfortably in the years to come.

The Successful Health Care Professional’s Guide
The Successful Health Care Professional’s Guide

Author: Philip K. Louie

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2022-04-26

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 3030959503

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The goal of this concise guide is to provide a resource of “non-medical” skills and practices that have been shown to help healthcare trainees reach their peak performance. There are many aspects of the healthcare education and training process that are necessary for excelling, preparing for the next stage, and thriving at the level of the trainee’s end goal. However, certain additional skills and principles are essential in reaching peak performance during training, career, and life. Often overlooked in formal training, these skills and principles can be found in a range of areas, including leadership, goal-setting, mentorship, relationships, skills-training, stoicism, and financial planning, to name just several. All are critical in medical-career development, but learning these skills and principles often requires searching through numerous resources to aquire the needed information. Having completed the rigorous training involved in these professions, the accomplished chapter authors of this easy-to-read title offer insightful key points and tangible action items in each section, geared specifically to the trainee and their training education. In addition, authors from various non-medical sectors and professional backgrounds have contributed their expertise to this compendium, giving the book important interdisciplinary coverage. An invaluable and timely contribution to the health career development literature, The Successful Health Care Professional’s Guide will be of great interest to medical students, residents, fellows and all allied health professionals looking to develop the most successful and fulfilling career possible.

Seven Resources for Lifelong Wellbeing and Retirement Planning
Seven Resources for Lifelong Wellbeing and Retirement Planning

Author: Vivian Weiqun Lou

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2024-01-05

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 1527552691

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Seven Resources for Lifelong Wellbeing and Retirement Planning: The Golden Age Playbook redefines aging and retirement for the young-old generation. The book emerged as a result of the pioneering Jockey Club Golden Age Journey Project, a comprehensive initiative designed to empower individuals aged 50 to 74 in embracing their golden years with wisdom, vitality, and enthusiasm. Drawing from empirical evidence, the authors developed the Second Half Wellbeing (SHW) Framework, which ingeniously links seven essential resources that pave the way for a fulfilling and purposeful life. This book is a testament to their commitment to inspire and uplift the young-old generation.

The United Nations Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing
The United Nations Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing

Author: Marvin Formosa

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2023-02-23

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13: 1000836991

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The United Nations Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing (MIPAA) offers a bold new agenda for handling the issue of ageing in the 21st century. It focuses on three priority areas: older persons and development; advancing health and well-being into old age; and ensuring enabling and supportive environments. This book brings together global perspectives on the MIPAA and focusses on and assesses the success and failures of governments to implement its recommendations. Despite its pivotal importance in international ageing policy, the MIPAA has been relatively neglected by academics in their writings and studies. This book mitigates this analytical and empirical cavity. Each chapter focuses on one specific geographical region and addresses five key themes: national ageing situation; twenty years of MIPAA; ensuring ageing with dignity; healthy and active ageing in a sustainable world; and priorities for the future. It presents an overall summary of the findings, future challenges and opportunities related to ageing, recommendations for future actions to be taken, and policy adjustments needed. The authors also present lessons that were learnt from managing the impact of COVID-19 on older people, together with an outlook on the most immediate priorities for the future so that the recommendations in the MIPAA are achieved in post-COVID-19 and sustainable ethical scenarios. An important contribution towards the advancement of ageing policy, the book will be indispensable to students and researchers of gerontology, ageing, and health. It will also be of interest to policy makers, geriatricians, dementia care specialists, social policy makers responsible for ensuring active and healthy ageing, and all public sector departments which have specific responsibilities towards improving the quality of life of older adults.

Fitness Professional's Handbook
Fitness Professional's Handbook

Author: Barbara A. Bushman

Publisher: Human Kinetics

Published: 2024-04-15

Total Pages: 634

ISBN-13: 171821782X

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Fitness Professional's Handbook translates key concepts into practical application by guiding the reader through screening participants, conducting fitness tests, evaluating the major components of fitness, and prescribing appropriate exercise.

Medical Education and Training in Israel Towards a Better Governance Structure for Health Workforce Planning and Policy Making
Medical Education and Training in Israel Towards a Better Governance Structure for Health Workforce Planning and Policy Making

Author: OECD

Publisher: OECD Publishing

Published: 2023-05-01

Total Pages: 76

ISBN-13: 9264472525

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Achieving universal access to medical care in Israel, as in other OECD countries, requires having a sufficient number of doctors, with a proper mix of generalists and specialists, and a proper geographic distribution to serve the population in the whole country. This review analyses some of the main challenges facing medical education and training policies and programmes in Israel by drawing on comparative analyses and useful experiences from other OECD countries.

Practical Problems In Business Statistics by Dr. V. C. Sinha, Dr. Alok Gupta, Dr. Sunil Kumar Gupta ( SBPD Publications )
Practical Problems In Business Statistics by Dr. V. C. Sinha, Dr. Alok Gupta, Dr. Sunil Kumar Gupta ( SBPD Publications )

Author: Dr. V. C. Sinha

Publisher: SBPD Publication

Published: 2021-06-25

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13: 9351674169

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An excellent book for commerce students appearing in competitive, professional and other examinations. 1.Editing of Collected Data, 2 .Classification and Tabulation of Data., 3. Diagrammatic Presentation of Data, 4. Graphic Presentation of Data, 5. Construction of Frequency Distribution, 6. Measures of Central Tendency, 7. Geometric Mean and Harmonic Mean, 8. Partition Values, 9. Measures of Dispersion, 10. Measures of Skewness, 11. Moments, 12. Measures of Kurtosis, 13. Correlation, Appendix 14. Index Numbers, 15. Analysis of Time Series.