Reviews: Urban Politics: A Sociological Interpretation, Back to the City: Issues in Neighborhood Renovation, Spatial Search: Applications to Planning Problems in the Public Sector, the Geography of Famine, Transportation for the Elderly: Changing Lifestyles, Changing Needs

Abstract Background The elderly healthcare voucher (EHCV) scheme is expected to lead to an increase in the number of elderly people selecting private primary healthcare services and reduce reliance on the public sector in Hong Kong. However, studies thus far have reported that this scheme has not received satisfactory responses. In this study, we examined changes in the ratio of visits between public and private doctors in primary care (to measure reliance on the public sector) for different strategic scenarios in the EHCV scheme. Methods Based on comments from an expert panel, a system dynamics model was formulated to simulate the impact of various enhanced strategies in the scheme: increasing voucher amounts, lowering the age eligibility, and designating vouchers for chronic conditions follow-up. Data and statistics for the model calibration were collected from various sources. Results The simulation results show that the current EHCV scheme is unable to reduce the utilization of public healthcare services, as well as the ratio of visits between public and private primary care among the local aging population. When comparing three different tested scenarios, even if the increase in the annual voucher amount could be maintained at the current pace or the age eligibility can be lowered to include those aged 60 years, the impact on shifts from public-to-private utilization were insignificant. The public-to-private ratio could only be marginally reduced from 0.74 to 0.64 in the first several years. Nevertheless, introducing a chronic disease-oriented voucher could result in a significant drop of 0.50 in the public-to-private ratio during the early implementation phase. However, the effect could not be maintained for an extended period. Conclusions Our findings will assist officials in improving the design of the EHCV scheme, within the wider context of promoting primary care among the elderly. We suggest that an additional chronic disease-oriented voucher can serve as an alternative strategy. The scheme must be redesigned to address more specific objectives or provide a separate voucher that promotes under-utilized healthcare services (e.g., preventive care), instead of services designed for unspecified reasons, which may lead to concerns regarding exploitation.

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Council House Sales and Residualization

Journal of Social Policy ◽

10.1017/s0047279400015166 ◽

1986 ◽

Vol 15 (3) ◽

pp. 273-292 ◽

Cited By ~ 13

Author(s):

N.J. Williams ◽

J. Sewel ◽

F. Twine

Keyword(s):

Public Sector ◽

Empirical Evidence ◽

Social Classes ◽

General Process ◽

The Public ◽

The Right ◽

The City ◽

Right To Buy ◽

Council House

ABSTRACTIt has been argued that council house sales will contribute towards a more general process of residualization of public sector housing. Empirical evidence is presented in this context derived from surveys of purchasers and non-purchasers of council dwellings in the city of Aberdeen. This evidence confirms that purchasers and non-purchasers exhibit different socio-economic characteristics and after only four years of the Right to Buy legislation significant numbers of households in social classes I, II and III have left the public sector via the mechanism of sales. The small number of sales relative to the stock as a whole, however, has meant that the overall contribution of sales towards residualization has been small. This evidence from Aberdeen is compared to evidence from elsewhere and related to the varying pattern of sales across the country as a whole.

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ARQUITETURA, IDEOLOGIA E PRODUÇÃO: o uso do edifício público como veículo de comunicação no período do “Regime Militar” brasileiro

Revista Labor ◽

10.29148/labor.v1i18.31518 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 1 (18) ◽

pp. 1

Author(s):

Eneas de Araújo Arrais Neto

Keyword(s):

Economic Development ◽

Public Sector ◽

Military Government ◽

Specific Group ◽

The Public ◽

Design Project ◽

Architectural Language ◽

The Military ◽

The City

Este artigo tem como objetivo analisar os edifícios sedes dos órgãos públicos federais construídos na cidade de Fortaleza durante os anos de vigência do “Regime Militar”. Parte da compreensão de que a arquitetura, enquanto objeto de fruição coletiva, assume o papel de meio de comunicação de massa no espaço urbano e, como tal, foi um dos instrumentos de divulgação ideológica dos governos militares dirigidos aos setores sociais urbanos; veiculando principalmente idéias de modernização, desenvolvimento, racionalidade, onipotência do poder estatal e autoritarismo. Analisa igualmente as influências, neste processo, da cultura de classe do setor burocrático-estatal, e propõe que estas edificações, ao estabelecerem novos padrões estéticos e de utilização de materiais e equipamentos de procedência tecnológica estrangeira, se constituíram em elementos importantes do processo de abertura da economia nacional ao capital multinacional, em particular no que diz respeito ao mercado da construção civil.Abstract This paper presents the arquitectural critique of a specific group of edifications built in the city of Fortaleza during the period of the military governments in Brazil. The character of the architecture developed by the military government in public buildings in this period is common all over the country: the facilities were built to with the intention to occupy the cities as out-doors of the military governments, diffusing images of modernization, rationality, economic development and the power of the state. Through the use of architectural language, by the means of design, project, materials, forms and other ways, the architecture of the public sector played the role of ideology, besides introducing imported materials and equipment previously unused in the building sector of the country.

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Headquarters of Large Enterprises in the Spatial Structure of Major Polish Cities

Studies of the Industrial Geography Commission of the Polish Geographical Society ◽

10.24917/20801653.25.10 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 25 ◽

pp. 178-193

Author(s):

Przemysław Śleszyński

Keyword(s):

Public Sector ◽

Spatial Structure ◽

Ownership Structure ◽

High Order ◽

City Centre ◽

Spatial Concentration ◽

The Public ◽

Large Company ◽

Central Business Districts ◽

The City

The paper is based on the author’s monograph (Śleszyński, 2008). It presents the analysis of enterprise headquarters’ locations in eight largest Polish cities (Warsaw, Szczecin, The Tricity [Gdańsk–Gdynia–Sopot], Poznań, Łódź, Wrocław, Katowice and Krakow). The study primarily involved data from the Hoppenstedt Bonnier database for the year 2004, concerning 3810 entities whose overall revenue exceeded the minimum of 15.6 million PLN. The businesses were analysed in terms of their location with respect to the city centre, as well as the differentiation of revenues, line of business and ownership structure. The analyses helped in the formulation of the basic regularities of the location distribution. For instance, it was found that spatial concentration is most significant in the case of the largest enterprises, the public sector and more advanced businesses, particularly high-order services.The location of large company headquarters, as well as their mutual connections, performs one of the key roles (or even the most important one) in the development of Central Business Districts in Polish cities during transformation.

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Streets, Citizenship, and the Politics of Gender in Allende’s Chile

Ephemeral Histories ◽

10.1525/california/9780520289901.003.0003 ◽

2016 ◽

Author(s):

Camilo D. Trumper

Keyword(s):

Urban Politics ◽

Price Inflation ◽

The Public ◽

Contested Space ◽

Political Narratives ◽

The Press ◽

Food Shortages ◽

The Public Sphere ◽

Political Association ◽

The City

Chapter two examines how those on the Left and Right alike crafted political narratives on the street that made new sense of these idealized views of the city and of citizenship. In an effort to fashion political opposition to Allende, women organized around the specter of food shortages, scarcity, and price inflation in the December 1, 1971 March of the Empty Pots. Circulating information and organizing meetings in the press, supermarkets, food queues, and hair salons, they politicized traditionally “apolitical” places. In so doing, they created new possibilities for political association and debate. They also made gendered spectacle of “reclaiming the streets” from Allende supporters, banging empty pots and pans to arguing that they were forced out of their domestic worlds by the “dire” lack of subsistence goods and into the contested space of urban politics. Studying this emblematic protest through the intertwined lenses of gender, politics and the public sphere, Chapter 2 reveals how the ephemeral political practice of protest effectively transformed gendered domestic tropes into legitimate political languages and into the bases for new, gendered, and conservative political identities.

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M-Government Initiatives at the Local Level

Mobile Government ◽

10.4018/978-1-59140-884-0.ch012 ◽

2007 ◽

pp. 233-251 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Luis V. Casaló ◽

Carlos Flavián ◽

Miguel Guinalíu

Keyword(s):

Public Sector ◽

Local Level ◽

City Council ◽

Mobile Telephone ◽

The Public ◽

Local Government Level ◽

The Relationship ◽

The City ◽

Good Number ◽

Government Level

This chapter introduces the concept of m-government and its implications for both citizens and public institutions. Although m-government is currently in an initial phase of development, its potential in the relationship between the public sector and the citizen is obvious because of, for example, the large number of mobile phone users among the public. In addition, the development of m-government initiatives generates a good number of bene?ts for the public sector that operates it as well as for the public, who experience improved accessibility to electronic public services. Because of this, this chapter analyses m-government initiatives developed by the Zaragoza City Council (Spain) in order to describe its bene?ts, implications for the relationship between the City Council and the citizen, and the future perspectives of these initiatives. We have speci?cally chosen a country like Spain due to the fact that mobile telephone usage is widespread and, at the same time, local government level has been chosen as the citizen participates more in the relationship with the public sector when it is at the local level.

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Violence against the Brazilian elderlies: an analysis of hospitalizations

Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem ◽

10.1590/0034-7167-2017-0139 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 71 (suppl 2) ◽

pp. 777-785 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Vivian Carla de Castro ◽

Leidyani Karina Rissardo ◽

Lígia Carreira

Keyword(s):

Public Sector ◽

The Elderly ◽

Cross Sectional Study ◽

Demographic Variables ◽

Chi Square ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

The Public ◽

Unified Health System ◽

Quantitative Descriptive ◽

Old Men

ABSTRACT Objective: to identify the prevalence of physical aggression and neglect and abandonment in the hospitalizations of Brazilian elderly people for violence and assault from 2008 to 2013 and the association of these causes with socio-demographic variables related to hospitalization. Method: quantitative, descriptive, cross-sectional study with elderlies hospitalized for assault. Inclusion criteria: to be 60 years old or over, to have been hospitalized in the Unified Health System (SUS) for assault or neglect and abandonment, between 2008 and 2013. The data were collected in February 2016, in Datasus database and descriptive and inferentially, using the Chi-square distribution, in the Epi Info 3.5.4 program. Results: the prevalence of hospitalizations due to assaults and violence prevailed among 60 and 69 years old men in the public sector. For abandonment and neglect, there was a higher prevalence in women, over 80 years old, in the public sector. Conclusion: nurses must be able to identify and prevent violence against the elderly.

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Language Provision in the Scottish Public Sector: Recommendations to Promote Inclusive Practice

Social Inclusion ◽

10.17645/si.v9i1.3549 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 9 (1) ◽

pp. 45-55 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Róisín McKelvey

Keyword(s):

Public Sector ◽

Public Service ◽

Service Providers ◽

Policy Instruments ◽

City Council ◽

The Public ◽

Language Support ◽

Inclusive Practice ◽

Research Findings ◽

The City

Public service providers in Scotland have developed language support, largely in the form of interpreting and translation, to meet the linguistic needs of those who cannot access their services in English. Five core public sector services were selected for inclusion in a research project that focused on the aforementioned language provision and related equality issues: the Scottish Courts and Tribunal Service, NHS Lothian, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, the City of Edinburgh Council and Glasgow City Council. The frameworks within which these public service providers operate—namely, the obligations derived from supranational and domestic legal and policy instruments—were analysed, as was the considerable body of standards and strategy documents that has been produced, by both national organisations and local service providers, in order to guide service delivery. Although UK equalities legislation has largely overlooked allochthonous languages and their speakers, this research found that the public service providers in question appear to regard the provision of language support as an obligation related to the Equality Act (UK Government, 2010). Many common practices related to language support were also observed across these services, in addition to shared challenges, both attitudinal and practical. A series of recommendations regarding improvements to language provision in the public sector emerged from the research findings and are highlighted in this article.

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Peran Kepemimpinan Dan Budaya Organisasi Dalam Meningkatkan Kinerja Pegawai Sektor Publik Di Kota

Eksis: Jurnal Ilmiah Ekonomi dan Bisnis ◽

10.33087/eksis.v11i2.205 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 11 (2) ◽

pp. 131

Author(s):

Sakinah AS ◽

Anisah Anisah

Keyword(s):

Organizational Culture ◽

Public Sector ◽

Structural Equation ◽

Employee Performance ◽

Partial Least Square ◽

Least Square ◽

Equation Modeling ◽

The Public ◽

Public Sector Employees ◽

The City

This study aims to analyze the influence of leadership and organizational culture on the performance of public sector employees in the city of Jambi. The sample in this study is employees who work in the public sector in the city of Jambi. The data collection method used a questionnaire and analyzed using verification analysis, the analytical tool in this study is using Component Based SEM (Structural Equation Modeling), namely PLS (Partial Least Square). The results of this study will explain whether there is an influence from the main variables studied, namely the leadership, organizational culture and employee performance..

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