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Dans la mise à jour de la déclaration d'Helsinki, en 2014, l'Organisation mondiale de la santé reconnaissait que les décisions prises par les gouvernements dans tous les secteurs de la vie collective pouvaient avoir une incidence, positive ou négative, sur la santé des individus et des populations. Cette reconnaissance présente un défi de taille pour les organismes de santé publique qui, dans leur devoir de protection et de promotion de la santé, doivent influencer les élus. Comment s'exerce ce rôle d'influence sur les autorités? Et, surtout, comment mieux le jouer? Des médecins et des experts reconnus en science politique et en éthique présentent dans cet ouvrage treize cas d'interventions des directions de santé publique du Québec. Tout en montrant à quel point l'acceptabilité sociale est un enjeu crucial, ils proposent des cadres de référence et tirent des leçons pour de futures interventions. Rares sont les ouvrages qui décrivent concrètement les pratiques de prévention qui consistent à mener des opérations visant à influencer les organisations et les décideurs.

Just when a teenager thinks his life can't get any better, an alien invasion throws a wrench in the works. And he needed a parent's signature for this? Girls, guns, and of course some very good friends. Bradley Harrison is your everyday teenager and can't ask for much more out of high school life. He spends his senior year looking forward to college, scoping out good-looking women, and blowing off steam at the local gun range. However, a trip to the Big Apple is going to change his life forever. An alien species called the Armazoids, way ahead of our time, lands in New York the night before and starts an invasion. Bradley has to guide a small group of people through an infected city. But what happens when the girl he loves, her best friend, another pupil he hates, plus the teacher he despises are kidnapped by the invaders? How does he get them back to Earth? Can he help prevent another invasion in the near future? Find out in... The Day Trip.

Health policy in the United States has been shaped by the political, socioeconomic, and ideological environment, with important roles played by public and private actors, as well as institutional and individual entities, in designing the contemporary American healthcare system. Now in a fully updated fifth edition, this book gives expanded attention to pressing issues for our policymakers, including the aging American population, physician shortages, gene therapy, specialty drugs, and the opioid crisis. A new chapter has been added on the Trump administration's failed attempts at repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act and subsequent attempts at undermining it via executive orders.Authors Kant Patel and Mark Rushefsky address the key problems of healthcare cost, access, and quality through analyses of Medicare, Medicaid, the Veterans Health Administration, and other programs, and the ethical and cost implications of advances in healthcare technology. Each chapter concludes with discussion questions and a comprehensive reference list. This textbook will be required reading for courses on health and healthcare policy, as well as all those interested in the ways in which American healthcare has evolved over time.

The photos in this edition are black and white.Skylarks, GSXs, Grand Nationals, Rivieras, Gran Sports; the list of formidable performance Buicks is impressive. From the torque monsters of the 1960s to the high-flying Turbo models of the'80s, Buicks have a unique place in performance history. During the 1960s, when word of the mountains of torque supplied by the big-inch Buicks hit the street, nobody wanted to mess with them. Later, big-inch Buicks and the Hemi Chryslers went at it hammer and tongs in stock drag shootouts and in the pages of the popular musclecar magazines of the day. The wars between the Turbo Buicks and Mustang GTs in the 1980s were also legendary, as both cars responded so well to modifications. How to Build Max-Performance Buick Engines is the first performance engine book ever published on the Buick family of engines. This book covers everything from the Nailheads of the'50s and early'60s, to the later evolutions of the Buick V-8 through the'60s and'70s, through to the turbo V-6 models of the'70s and'80s. Veteran magazine writer and Buick owner Jefferson Bryant supplies the most up-to-date information on heads, blocks, cams, rotating assemblies, interchangeability, and oiling-system improvements and modifications, along with details on the best performance options available, avenues for aftermarket support, and so much more. Finally, the Buick camp gets the information they have been waiting for, and it's all right here in How to Build Max-Performance Buick Engines.

This book is an invitation to question conventional and often misleading visions of globalization. No problem is global by nature: issues are transformed by the action of claims-makers to become ‘problems'debated in supra-national forums, triggering policy choices and policy transformations. Contributions highlight how health issues, environmental issues and/or political issues are framed as global by a set of stakeholders (scientific experts, bureaucrats, political parties or actors, social movements, social networks, firms). As the volume maps the social logic behind the globalization of problems, it also presents an opportunity for the very cross-disciplinary collaboration it calls for: researchers mobilizing the “agenda-setting” paradigm of issue globalization and those working within the “social constructionist” model are both represented here, providing a unique opportunity to examine the dynamics of globalization from the perspectives of (political, media, economic) sociology, international relations, social movement studies, and beyond.

Martina Grabau geht der Frage nach, wie sich die energiepolitischen Beziehungen zwischen der EU und Russland infolge der Ukraine-Krise zukünftig entwickeln werden. Sie untersucht die Akteurspositionen der EU-Mitgliedstaaten sowie der EU-Kommission vor und nach Beginn der Ukraine-Krise und entwickelt mittels einer spieltheoretischen Simulation ein Zukunftsszenario für die europäische Erdgasaußenpolitik. Die Autorin zeichnet ein umfassendes Bild der Handlungsmuster sowie des Wandels in den Policypositionen der Akteure infolge der Ukraine-Krise und diskutiert Faktoren zur Begünstigung und Einschränkung dieser Wandlungsprozesse. Darüber hinaus zeigt sie den methodischen Mehrwert einer Verbindung von formaler Modell- und Policyanalyse auf.

This study dissects a policy failure that is often overlooked: Nuclear energy policy in the US and Germany fell short of the goals it set itself at an early stage of deployment. Technological expansion in both countries came to a halt before the nuclear accidents in Harrisburg and Chernobyl. The longitudinal analysis employed here examines the evolution of nuclear energy policies in those countries between 1945 and 2016. It illuminates how, in both cases, policy subsystems, which were set up to promote and protect the technology, collapsed. This study uses Punctuated Equilibrium Theory (PET) as an explanatory framework, which gives the reader an idea of how policies change over time. It examines the strengths and weaknesses of PET and provides a historically updated view on recent developments like the'nuclear renaissance'in the US and the phasing-out of nuclear power in Germany.

This volume provides summarized scientific evidence of the different classes of plant-derived phytocompounds, their sources, chemical structures, anticancer properties, mechanisms of action, methods of extraction, and their applications in cancer therapy. It also discusses endophyte-derived compounds as chemopreventives to treat various cancer types. In addition, it provides detailed information on the enhanced production of therapeutically valuable anticancer metabolites using biotechnological interventions such as plant cell and tissue culture approaches, including in vitro-, hairy root- and cell-suspension culture; and metabolic engineering of biosynthetic pathways. Anticancer Plants: Natural Products and Biotechnological Implements – Volume 2” explores the natural bioactive compounds isolated from plants as well as fungal endophytes, their chemistry, and preventive effects to reduce the risk of cancer. Moreover, it highlights the genomics/proteomics approaches and biotechnological implementations. Providing solutions to deal with the challenges involved in cancer therapy, the book benefits a wide range of readers including academics, students, and industrial experts working in the area of natural products, medicinal plant chemistry, pharmacology, and biotechnology.

Public policy is a broad and interdisciplinary area of study and research in the field tends to reflect this. Yet for those teaching and studying public policy, the disjointed nature of the field can be confusing and cumbersome. This text provides a consistent and coherent framework for uniting the field of public policy. Authors Kevin B. Smith and Christopher W. Larimer offer an organized and comprehensive overview of the core questions and concepts, major theoretical frameworks, primary methodological approaches, and key controversies and debates in each subfield of policy studies from the policy process and policy analysis to program evaluation and policy implementation. The third edition has been updated throughout to include the latest scholarship and approaches in the field, including new and expanded coverage of behavioral economics, the narrative policy framework, Fourth Generation implementation studies, the policy regime approach, field experiments, and the debate of program versus policy implementation studies. Now with an appendix of sample comprehensive exam questions, The Public Policy Theory Primer remains an indispensable text for the systematic study of public policy.

This book provides a comprehensive examination of the ways that health policy has been shaped by the political, socioeconomic, and ideological environment of the United States. The roles played by public and private, institutional and individual actors in designing the healthcare system are identified at all levels. The book addresses the key problems of healthcare cost, access, and quality through analyses of Medicare, Medicaid, the Veterans Health Administration, and other programs, and the ethical and cost implications of advances in healthcare technology. This fully updated fourth edition gives expanded attention to the fiscal and financial impact of high healthcare costs and the struggle for healthcare reform, culminating in the passage of the Affordable Care Act, with preliminary discussion of implementation issues associated with the Affordable Care Act as well as attempts to defund and repeal it. Each chapter concludes with discussion questions and a comprehensive reference list. Helpful appendices provide a guide to websites and a chronology. PowerPoint slides and other instructional materials are available to instructors who adopt the book.