evidence based policy a practical guide to doing it better

Evidence-based Policy: A Practical Guide to Doing It Better

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Cartwright, Nancy / Hardie, Jeremy, PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press Inc, Over the last twenty or so years, it has become standard to require policy makers to base their recommendations on evidence. That is now uncontroversial to the point of triviality--of course, policy should be based on the facts. But are the methods that policy makers rely on to gather and analyze evidence the right ones? In Evidence-Based Policy, Nancy Cartwright, an eminent scholar, and Jeremy Hardie, who has had a long and successful career in both business and the economy, explain that the dominant methods which are in use now--broadly speaking, methods that imitate standard practices in medicine like randomized control trials--do not work. They fail, Cartwright and Hardie contend, because they do not enhance our ability to predict if policies will be effective. The prevailing methods fall short not just because social science, which operates within the domain of real-world politics and deals with people, differs so much from the natural science milieu of the lab. Rather, there are principled reasons why the advice for crafting and implementing policy now on offer will lead to bad results. Current guides in use tend to rank scientific methods according to the degree of trustworthiness of the evidence they produce. That is valuable in certain respects, but such approaches offer little advice about how to think about putting such evidence to use. Evidence-Based Policy focuses on showing policymakers how to effectively use evidence. It also explains what types of information are most necessary for making reliable policy, and offers lessons on how to organize that information.

Home Ecology: Simple and Practical Ways to Green Your Home

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Christensen, Karen, PUBLISHER: Fulcrum Group, Home Ecology is not a green consumer guide. It is about living better, not buying better.

Evidence-Based Rehabilitation: A Guide to Practice

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Law, Mary C. / Macdermid, Joy, PUBLISHER: Slack, The rehabilitation profession's best-selling text that provides step-by-step guidance for evidence-based practice has been updated into an expanded "Second Edition." Written specifically for students and practitioners in both occupational and physical therapy, "Evidence-Based Rehabilitation: A Guide to Practice, Second Edition "focuses on building knowledge through specific learning. Drs. Mary Law and Joy MacDermid are joined by 17 of today's leading rehabilitation professionals to teach readers how to become critical consumers of research and develop skills to ensure that rehabilitation practice is based on the best evidence that is available. "Evidence-Based Rehabilitation, Second Edition" is a comprehensive and well-organized text that provides the most up-to-date information on evidence-based practice, the concepts underlying evidence-based practice, and implementing evidence into the rehabilitation practice. This text is organized by the steps of the process of evidence-based practice--introduction to evidence-based practice, finding the evidence, assessing the evidence, and using the evidence. Inside the pages of "Evidence-Based Rehabilitation, Second Edition" rehabilitation professionals will find that each chapter has been updated to include clinical examples and exercises. Several new chapters include recent examples about systematic reviews, clinical practice guidelines, and knowledge exchange. Features: - Designed to fit a standard 3-unit course with 11 to 12 sessions. - Extensive instructor's manual is available with specific student activities and answers for faculty. - Critical review forms are included for use by students. These forms have been used by many practitioners and researchers around the world for 8 to15 years. - Recognition throughout the book that evidence-based practice in rehabilitation means bringing together research evidence, clinical reasoning of the therapist, and client values and goals. "Evidence-Based Rehabilitation: A Guide to Practice, Second Edition" is an essential resource for students and practitioners to help incorporate the most current and complete evidence-based research into rehabilitation practice. Acquista Ora

Feminist Perspectives on Canadian Foreign Policy

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Sienstra, Deborah / Sjolander, Claire Turenne / Smith, Heather, PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press, USA, This books seeks to deconstruct Canadian foreign policy. In doing so the book asks: what makes foreign policy 'different' from other policy spheres? How does the study of foreign policy as it is traditionally defined keep gender/women out of statist and institutional analyses?

Doing Management Research: A Comprehensive Guide

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Thietart, Raymond Alain / Et Al, N/A / Thietart, PUBLISHER: Sage Publications (CA), Doing Management Research, a major new textbook, provides answers to questions and problems which researchers invariably encounter when embarking on management research, be it quantitative or qualitative. This book will carefully guide the reader through the research process from beginning to end. An excellent tool for academics and students, it enables the reader to acquire and build upon empirical evidence, and to decide what tools to use to understand and describe what is being observed, and then, which methods of analysis to adopt. There is an entire section dedicated to writing up and communicating the research findings. Written in an accessible and easy-to-use style, this book can be read from cover to cover or dipped

Doing Right: A Practical Guide to Ethics for Physicians and

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Hebert, Philip, PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press, USA, Doing Right is a brief and practical introduction to medical ethics for physicians and medical trainees (students, interns, residents). It eschews most jargon and instead concentrates on the concepts, issues and ethical-legal precedents that health care practitioners in Canada need to be familiar with to practice medicine in an acceptable way. The book uses many real-life cases -- some simple, some challenging -- that will help illustrate the application of modern ethics to everyday practice. Professionals in other health disciplines may find this bo useful as the key issues discussed are often faced by them as well.

Learning Democratically: Using Study Circles

ISBN: , SKU: , PUBLISHER: Niace, Study circles are groups which manage their own learning, embody democratic practice, and employ procedures that develop participants capacity to become confident as both learners and citizens, better able to act and take charge of their own destinies. This book shows how study circles offer an alternative to a narrow skills-based approach to learning and argues that their potential should be recognised by both practitioners and policy-makers. It contains a wide-ranging set of case studies of how study circles are already developing in adult education, voluntary organisations, self-help groups, faith communities and community development, with examples for comparison from Norway and Slovenia. This practical guide to creating and managing study circles, exploring their contemporary resonance and drawing on both Nordic and English experience, will appeal to those involved in adult learning as advisers, organisers, tutors, study circle leaders and voluntary activists, and also to learners themselves.

Prevention in General Practice

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Fowler, Godfrey / Gray, J. A. / Anderson, Peter, PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press, USA, Spectacular advances in therapeutic medicine have not diminished the need for prevention, and there is widespread acknowledgment that avoidance of disability and premature death often depends on prevention rather than cure. There is also recognition that family practice has a key role to play in this, because of the opportunities it provides for influencing the future well-being of large numbers of individuals. Since the first edition of this book was published, the scope for prevention has become more clearly defined, and the evidence for effectiveness better established. The second edition has therefore been completely rewritten. It assesses the evidence for prevention effectiveness in relation to the major causes of disability and premature death, describes what measures should be taken, and gives practical guidance on carrying them out. Although aimed primarily at family practitioners, this book will also be of value to medical students, public health professionals and policy makers.

Nursing for Public Health: Population Based Care

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Lindsay / Craig, Pauline M. / Lindsay, Grace, PUBLISHER: Churchill Livingstone, As the largest group of health care professionals, nurses have a growing influence on the health of the population. This is a key book in making the transition from individualised care to population-based care. It provides a greater understanding of health care policy and gives a comprehensive overview of health policy, economics, and epidemiology using an evidence-based approach. Determinants of health, measures of health, and health promotion are examined. The issues of communicable diseases, screening, minority groups and purchasing, and commissioning of health services are also addressed. This book is the first comprehensive text on public health nursing at this level and will be ofinterest to health visitors, district nurses, school nurses and practice nurses, as well as senior student nurses and nurse managers in secondary and tertiary care.

A Practical Guide to ETF Trading Systems

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Garner, Anthony, PUBLISHER: Harriman House, 'A Practical Guide to ETF Trading Systems' is about simple, rule-based trading systems of a trend following nature. This book reflects the author's belief that successful investing is not complex, that market timing works and that investors should spurn traditional actively-managed products in favour of managing their own investments using index-tracking funds. Providing a comprehensive introduction to rule-based trading, this book sets out in detail two specific systems which may be applied to exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and exchange-traded commodities (ETCs). Sceptics will maintain that mechanical systems do not work and that you cannot ignore the fundamentals. They are wrong. Sophisticated investors have profited handsomely over the years by following price trends on a purely mechanical basis and they will continue to do so. This guide will show you that systematic trading is likely to provide far better risk-adjusted returns than any conventional approach currently on offer from professional fund managers. There has never been a better time to benefit from the advantages of systematic investing. At a time when long-only traditionalists are fully invested in stocks and nursing huge losses, the systematic investor has exited the markets entirely and waits patiently for a signal to re-enter.

The Complete Photographer: A Complete Practical Guide to

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Spillman, Ron, PUBLISHER: Voyageur Press (MN), This popular and complete handbook includes a wide range of techniques to help readers take better photographs, plus a section on how to process in black and white and color.

Practitioner Research in Counselling

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: McLeod, John, PUBLISHER: Sage Publications (CA), This is a practical guide to carrying out research in counselling and the helping professions generally. It covers all major aspects of research and guides the reader through the essential processes involved, from setting up and conducting a study, to analyzing data and evaluating findings' - "The New Therapist " This practical, informative and encouraging guide to doing research in counselling and the helping professions generally has been written with practitioners firmly in mind. The book is a comprehensive yet accessible introduction which covers all major aspects of research and guides the reader through the essential processes involved, from setting up and conducting a study, to analyzing

Living with Fire: Fire Ecology and Policy for the

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Jensen, Sara E. / McPherson, Guy R., PUBLISHER: University of California Press, Fire, both inevitable and ubiquitous, plays a crucial role in North American ecosystems. But as necessary as fire is to maintaining healthy ecosystems, it threatens human lives and livelihoods in unacceptable ways. This volume explores the rich yet largely uncharted terrain at the intersection of fire policy, fire science, and fire management in order to find better ways of addressing this pressing dilemma. Written in clear language, it will help scientists, policy makers, and the general public, especially residents of fire-prone areas, better understand where we are today in regard to coping with wildfires, how we got here, and where we need to go. Drawing on abundant historical and analytic information to shed new light on current controversies, "Living with Fire "offers a dynamic new paradigm for coping with fire that recognizes its critical environmental role. The book also tells how we can rebuild the important ecological and political processes that are necessary for finding better ways to cope with fire and with other complex policy dilemmas.

Yearbook on Space Policy : Setting New Trends

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Schrogl, Kai-Uwe / Baranes, Blandina / Venet, Christophe, PUBLISHER: Springer, The Yearbook on Space Policy aims to be the reference publication analysing space policy developments. Each year it presents issues and trends in space policy and the space sector as a whole. Its scope is global and its perspective is European. The Yearbook also links space policy with other policy areas. It highlights specific events and issues, and provides useful insights, data and information on space activities. The Yearbook on Space Policy is edited by the European Space Policy Institute (ESPI) based in Vienna, Austria. It combines in-house research and contributions of members of the European Space Policy Research and Academic Network (ESPRAN), coordinated by ESPI. The Yearbook is designed for government decision-makers and agencies, industry professionals, as well as the service sectors, researchers and scientists and the interested public.

Kiplinger's Practical Guide to Your Money: Keep More of It,

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Kiplinger's Personal Finance, PUBLISHER: Dearborn Trade, "Kiplinger's Practical Guide to Your Money" covers every one of life's financial milestones in detail-from renting or buying a home, purchasing life insurance, and sizing up banks and credit unions, to marrying, paying for a child's education, and planning for retirement-making this the most exhaustive handbook on the market. What's more, Kiplinger's Web site, www.kiplinger.com, complements the guide by providing all the latest tax code information. When it comes to money, the editors of "Kiplinger's Personal Finance" contend that people should be able to keep more of it, make it grow, enjoy it, protect it, and pass it on. Equipped with their sound advice, readers will assume responsibility for their financial futures, so that they can gain and maintain greater financial independence.

A Student's Guide to Studying Psychology

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Heffernan, Thomas / Heffernan, T., PUBLISHER: Psychology Press, The book is a practical guide to studying psychology. It incorporates good chapters on: Perspectives within psychology; Guidelines on seminars, tutorials and lectures; Guidelines on essay writing and practical write-ups; A Guide to research methods and empirical report writing; and Guidelines on exam preparation and technique. Finally, what to do upon graduation is also considered - with particular emphasis placed upon postgraduate training/research as well as applied areas of psychology. It is expected that this book will be of use to those studying psychology at undergraduate and pre-degree level, and will be of interest to those who are considering studying psychology as an academic subject - providing good insights to the most critical areas covered when studying psychology. The practical nature of this book and the various components outlined above, as well as its easy to follow format, distinguishes it from other texts in the field. It is anticipated that this book will become an invaluable source of guidance to students of psychology.

Good Cruising: The Illustrated Essentials

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Aiken, Zora / Aiken, David, PUBLISHER: International Marine Publishing, If you are a sail- or powerboat owner who wants a quick-reference, how-to guide to coastal and inland cruising, this practical and down-to-earth advice is for you. Longtime cruisers Zora and David Aiken outline and dissect every situation you are likely to encounter while taking day trips and doing coastal cruising. They cover everything you need to get started: Reading and understanding charts; Plotting a course; Anchoring and docking safely; Negotiating traffic; Watching the weather; Communicating with boats and shore; Avoiding hazards, and much more. The book presents the basics first, followed by hard-to-come-by nuggets of wisdom and invaluable hints and tips, making it simple to find answers quickly or obtain in-depth information if needed. Tightly focused and utterly noninimidating, this is the most practical and accessible guide for the vast majority of everyday cruising boaters.

Do-It-Yourself Essential Tools A Practical Guide to Tools

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Collins Mike, PUBLISHER: Anness Publishing, NA

Making Money in Child Care Photography

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Fontes, Rick, PUBLISHER: Lulu.com, A comprehensive, complete guide to Child Care Photography based on thirty years of hands-on experience. This manual allows you to avoid the common mistakes made by many who enter into this field without a guide. It is a jump start to your success.

Vendo libro di medicina naturale veterinaria.Manual of

Manual of Natural Veterinary Medicine: Science and Tradition. Autori: Susan G.Wynn and Steve Marsden. Mosby. Comprato negli Stati Uniti. his handy reference provides users with an understanding of complementary and alternative treatment options for more than 130 common disease states. A practical manual, it describes a variety of possible approaches to small animal disorders. Concentrating on nutrition, herbs, traditional Chinese medicines, and physical therapies, the authors present both tradition- and evidence-based therapies for disorders not always responsive to conventional therapies.

Mastering Emergency Medicine: A Practical Guide

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Trivedy, Chetan R. / Hall, Mathew / Parfitt, Andrew, PUBLISHER: Royal Society of Medicine Press, Mastering Emergency Medicine is a concise textbook that covers everything that candidates need to know in order to pass the College of Emergency Medicine's (CEM) membership examination (MCEM) to enter training, and to pass the fellowship examination (FCEM) to complete their Certificate of Specialist Training. The book takes a practical approach to the subject, which makes it an invaluable blueprint for management of cases that trainees will come across in their everyday work, as well as providing a highly detailed revision guide for the OSCE exams.

Traditional, Complementary and Alternative Medicine and

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Tovey, Philip / Chatwin, John / Broom, Alex, PUBLISHER: Routledge, Drawing on comparative fieldwork in the UK, Pakistan and Australia, this book provides the first systematic assessment of pathways and access to CAM and how it is used in health practice and by individuals with cancer. Giving fresh and invaluable insights into how differing health and societal structures influence the use complementary and alternative medicine, the book explores: the empirical, theoretical, and policy context for the study of CAM/TM and cancer the history and character of the eight support groups in which fieldwork took place in the UK, Australia and Pakistan the nature and structure of patient support groups' history, affiliation and evolution how groups function on a day-to-day basis the extent to which what is being offered in these CAM-oriented groups is in any way innovative and challenging to the therapeutic and organisational mainstream the value of sociological work in the field which is not tied to immediate and narrow policy objectives. This is an essential resource for those studying complementary and alternative medicine sociologically, to those involved in the provision of cancer care on a day-to-day basis, and to those looking to establish a more informed (evidence-based) policy.

Hoshin Kanri (C): Policy Deployment for Succesful TQM

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Akao, Yoji, PUBLISHER: Productivity Press, For Florida Power and Light, Hewlett-Packard, and Texas Instruments, policy deployment has created a critical bridge between corporate goals and their company-wide deployment. Hoshin Kanri offers top and middle managers a guide to customizing a policy deployment program especially suited to their company. This book is a compilation of examples of policy deployment and demonstrates how company vision is converted into individual responsibility. It contains practical guidelines, 150 charts and diagrams, and five case studies that illustrate the procedures of Hoshin Kanri. The six steps to advanced process planning are reviewed and include: a five-year vision; one-year plan; deployment to departments; execution; monthly audit; and annual audit. The practice of Hoshin Kanri will enable you to: Align all departmental and individual project goals to corporate goals and eliminate duplication of effort.Communicate to every employee his or her role in achieving the company vision.Closely monitor performance using carefully devised measures of progress. Learn how Hoshin Kanri can increase your company's responsiveness to social, economic, and technical changes through flexible strategic management. " (Originally published by the Japanese Standards Association)"

Mission Based Marketing: How Your Not for Profit Can Succeed

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Brinckerhoff, Peter C., PUBLISHER: John Wiley & Sons, A direct, practical guide that shows how you can lead your not-for-profit to success in a more competitive world. The book provides the knowledge and skills to build a market-driven organization that holds onto its core values, does more mission better, and successfully competes for funding, clients, referral sources, staff, and board members. Other titles in the Mission-Based Management(r) Series Mission-Based Management: Leading Your Not-for-Profit into the 21st Century Named "Best New Nonprofit Management Book" by the Nonprofit Management Association. The Association said, "The Nonprofit Management Association is pleased to spotlight the extraordinary work of Peter Brinckerhoff in his newest publication, Mission-Based Management: Leading Your Not-for-Profit Into the 21st Century." The book was cited by the Nonprofit Management Association as "a great overall manager's and board member's guide to non-profits— quite laudable in that it's eminently readable and downright enjoyable." Financial Empowerment: More Money for More Mission Named "Best New Nonprofit Management Book" by the Nonprofit Management Association. This second volume of the widely-respected Mission-Based Management(r) Series outlines a not-for-profit organization's plan for financial success. It highlights the eight characteristics of financial empowerment, and provides the skills and concepts that a nonprofit organization and its managers will need to survive, including estimating cash needs, treating funders like valued customers, developing money-making businesses, determining the financial options that are available, and implementing an empowered budget process. Competition now threatens manynot-for-profits. Those organizations that become market-driven and develop marketing skills will survive— and will do more mission better. Peter Brinckerhoff has worked with not-for-profits that are strong mission-based marketing organizations. He has seen what works and the leadership skills needed for success in a world where marketing matters. Peter has also worked with organizations that are struggling to make the transition to a competitive environment. From his experiences comes this sharply focused, practical guide to becoming a market-driven organization that will achieve its mission in a competitive world. Peter gives not-for-profit leaders the wisdom, experience, the successful strategies, and the needed skills. He also reveals the mistakes he has seen. Peter outlines the characteristics of a successful market-driven not-for-profit. You will learn how to become a market-driven organization and how to motivate board and staff to make the needed changes. Peter shows how to respond to your markets while holding on to your core values. He outlines the three core customer service rules and shows how to turn your customers into your best referral sources. When you have finished this book, you will Acquista Ora

Women and Distance Education: Challenges and Opportunities

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Prummer, Christine Von / Von, Glinow Mary / Von Prummer, Christine, PUBLISHER: Routledge, This book provides valuable insights into the situation of women in distance education around the world. A wide variety of evidence from different countries supports the conclusion that open and distance learning has the potential to provide equal opportunities in higher and continuing education and that these are currently being missed. The author provides conclusive evidence that distance education, while involving a degree of risk to the stability of families and relationships, etc., nevertheless offers women a chance which, on balance, is worth taking. The author says that it is up to distance education policy makers to provide a framework for women students which will limit the risks and maximise the opportunities. Drawing on fascinating case study material, this book presents vital information for these policy makers.

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