scholarly journals An Update on Recent Geriatric Education Advocacy Efforts

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 551-551
Author(s):  
Catherine Carrico ◽  
Katherine Bennett
Keyword(s):  
Working Relationships ◽  
Essential Work ◽  
Advocacy Organizations ◽  
Federal Level ◽  
The Past ◽  
Geriatric Education ◽  
Congressional Staff ◽  
Advocacy Strategies ◽  
Grassroots Advocacy ◽  
Grassroots Education

Abstract The National Association for Geriatric Education (NAGE) has maintained consistent education and advocacy efforts since 2006. In recent years NAGE has implemented formal and grassroots advocacy strategies. At the federal level NAGE has increased collaboration with other aging advocacy organizations and coalitions. At the request of Congress, NAGE leadership and stakeholders have testified before Congress and regularly submit testimony to the House and Senate. NAGE staff maintain strong working relationships with congressional staff. Strategies for effective grassroots education and advocacy have been taught to members, and membership has mobilized to educate elected officials about the essential work of the Geriatric Workforce Enhancement Programs across the country. This presentation will provide a thorough review of NAGE’s advocacy work over the past 4 years.

Institutions Respond to Changing Federal and State Environments

2020 ◽  
pp. 67-90
Author(s):  
Nancy Kleniewski
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Financial Aid ◽  
Research Funding ◽  
Government Regulation ◽  
State Level ◽  
The State ◽  
Institutions Of Higher Education ◽  
Federal Level ◽  
The Past ◽  
Regulation Changes

Institutions of higher education must respond to the changing landscape of federal and state expectations. This chapter explores how that landscape has changed over the past two decades and how some institutions are responding. At the federal level, changes have affected financial aid, research funding, and government regulation. Changes at the state level include significant reductions in state support and increases in tuition. These changes are occurring as higher education becomes more of a marketplace than a public service. The chapter offers some strategies for institutions hoping to garner increased support, particularly at the state level.

Dangerous Excursions: The Case against Expanding Forensic DNA Databases to Innocent Persons

2006 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 390-397 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tania Simoncelli
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Juvenile Offenders ◽  
Sexual Offenders ◽  
The United States ◽  
Forensic Dna ◽  
State Laws ◽  
Federal Level ◽  
The Past ◽  
And Storage

Over the past fifteen years, the United States has witnessed an extraordinary expansion in the banking and mining of DNA for law enforcement purposes. While the earliest state laws governing forensic DNA limited collection and retention of DNA samples to sexual offenders – on the theory that these persons were especially prone to recidivism and most likely to leave behind biological evidence – today forty-three states collect DNA from all felons, twenty-eight from juvenile offenders, and thirty-eight from those who commit certain categories of misdemeanors.A few states have expanded their databases beyond convicted criminals. Virginia, Louisiana, Texas, and California have authorized DNA retention from persons merely arrested for various offenses, although to date only Virginia has implemented such a program. At the federal level, an ill-considered statute that allows for the seizure and storage of DNA from anyone arrested and from non-U.S. citizens detained under federal authorities was recently signed into law.

scholarly journals Non-Military Confidence Building Measures and their Failure in Indo-Pak History (2001-2019)

2020 ◽  
Vol V (III) ◽  
pp. 11-21
Author(s):  
Areeja Syed
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Working Relationships ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of

In international relations, an act of demonstrating cooperation and goodwill with an adversary is known as the Confidence-Building measure. The motive behind these measures is to alleviate misapprehension, tension, fear, and angst between two or multiple parties by emphasizing trust and restricting acceleration in a conflict. India and Pakistan share a prolonged history of mistrust and animosity. The repercussions of this acrimonious relations are profound and extensive. In the past, numerous measures have been initiated by both states to stabilize peace and rekindle the mutual working relationships. To accomplish the challenging task, numerous non-military CBMs have also been initiated from both sides intermittently. However, none of them delivered the desired outcomes and successfully triggered confidence as anticipated. Therefore, in this article, the author delves into finding out the fundamental reasons for the failure of these CBMs between India and Pakistan held in 2001 – 2019.

Roger W. Shuy, Bureaucratic language in government and business. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 1998. Pp. xv, 190. Hb $49.95, pb $19.95.

2001 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-110 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanna Channell
Keyword(s):  
Great Book ◽  
Public Institutions ◽  
Project Work ◽  
Working Relationships ◽  
Washington Dc ◽  
Legal Cases ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Us ◽  
Set Up ◽  
And Linguistics

This is a great book. In it, Shuy describes some of the applied linguistics consultancy work he has undertaken in the past twenty years, mostly involving legal cases and public institutions in the US. He sets out to show how linguistics is a valuable tool in the analysis of bureaucratic language, in the hopes that that through this, “the intersection of law and linguistics may be furthered” (x), and that more fellow linguists will become involved in similar consultancy. Shuy gives a clear exposition not only of what he and colleagues have done but also of how they have negotiated working relationships. He is particularly strong on the ethics of consultancy, and his clear exposition of how the consultancy relationship should be set up merits attention from people well beyond the area of language study. Shuy's case studies and ethical points would be good preliminary reading for students undertaking language project work (for more on ethics, see BAAL 1994).

scholarly journals A strategy to enhance positive working relationships among the role players within the managed healthcare context in Gauteng

2000 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 3-14
Author(s):  
Shongy Mahlo ◽  
Marie Muller
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Full Text ◽  
Quality Care ◽  
Healthcare Delivery ◽  
High Rate ◽  
Working Relationships ◽  
Healthcare Industry ◽  
Private Healthcare ◽  
The Past ◽  
Role Players

The introduction of managed healthcare in South Africa was aimed at the reduction of medical costs, which were increasing at a high rate for the past few years, particularly so in a private healthcare industry. Managed healthcare is a system of healthcare delivery, which ensures that costs effective quality care is provided to patients. *Please note: This is a reduced version of the abstract. Please refer to PDF for full text.

scholarly journals The Convergence of Political and Government Advertising: Theory versus Practice

2006 ◽  
Vol 119 (1) ◽  
pp. 99-111 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sally Young
Keyword(s):  
Political Parties ◽  
Political Advertising ◽  
Government Information ◽  
Information Campaigns ◽  
Federal Level ◽  
The Past ◽  
Theory Versus ◽  
Ruling Party

Although they are sometimes confused, in theory government and political advertising are separate and quite distinct. By convention, government advertising — paid for directly by taxpayers — is to be used only for necessary government information campaigns which are neutral in nature and not liable to be perceived as creating a partisan benefit for the ruling party. By contrast, political advertising occurs predominantly during elections, is paid for by political parties or candidates, and is necessarily partisan, persuasive and usually highly emotive in nature. However, in the past two decades these distinctions have broken down. This paper explores the growing links between the two types of advertising at the federal level and concludes that there is a vast gap between the theory and reality of government advertising.

scholarly journals Ismail Noor - Najib Razak: A Sense of Mission, with Foreword by Datuk Seri Dr Rais Yatim

ICR Journal ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 545-547
Author(s):  
Abdul Karim Abdullah (Leslie Terebessy)
Keyword(s):  
Prime Minister ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Federal Level ◽  
The Past ◽  
Extensive Bibliography

“The purpose of this book is to depict Dato’ Seri Mohd Najib Tun Razak as the natural successor of Tun Abdul Razak Hussein in terms of the son extending the legacy of his father […]”, writes Ismail Noor in his Najib Razak: A Sense of Mission (p. xxi). Information, Communications and Culture Minister, Datuk Seri Dr Rais Yatim contributed the foreword. The book, at 186 pages, spans 33 years of public life - at both state and federal level - of Dato’ Seri Mohd Najib, the current Prime Minister of Malaysia, and highlights his roles as leader, administrator, manager and politician. Each of the book’s ten chapters - illustrated with photographs - highlights a particular stage of the Prime Minister’s career. Recollections of the past mingle with glimpses of the present. The chapters conclude with a wise saying by a sage from a different civilisation, reflecting Malaysia’s multi-cultural makeup. The book contains an extensive bibliography and index.

Antimicrobial stewardship: a Canadian perspective

2016 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 165-179 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elissa Rennert-May ◽  
John Conly
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Antimicrobial Stewardship ◽  
Health Agency ◽  
Working Relationships ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Public ◽  
Provincial Level ◽  
The Past ◽  
Current State ◽  
Canadian Perspective

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the current state of antimicrobial stewardship implementation and development within Canada at both a federal and provincial level. Design/methodology/approach – Narrative review. Findings – There have been several prominent conferences and reports in Canada regarding the development and implementation of antimicrobial stewardship programs over the past two decades. However, despite the knowledge that there is a need for standardization of programs across Canada with accurate mechanisms and infrastructure in place for implementation and evaluation of these programs, there is still a lack of consistency across the country. In addition pharmacy information regarding inpatient and outpatient antimicrobial use is not uniformly reliable. Recently, the Public Health Agency of Canada using the Pan-Canadian Public Health Network as a vehicle organized a task group to help facilitate the working relationships among the provincial, territorial and federal governments in terms of implementing antimicrobial stewardship programs. This network has the potential to enhance and standardize programs across the country. Originality/value – This paper looks at Canadian policy regarding antimicrobial stewardship at a federal as well as provincial level. Historic conferences, reports and discussions are highlighted emphasizing the progressive changes over the past two decades and highlight many of the challenges that Canada continues to face.

scholarly journals What Do They Know and When Do They Know It? Health Staff on the Hill

1987 ◽  
Vol 20 (02) ◽  
pp. 221-225 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Whiteman
Keyword(s):  
Health Staff ◽  
Congressional Committee ◽  
Policy Issues ◽  
Staff Members ◽  
The Past ◽  
Congressional Staff ◽  
Key Staff ◽  
The Hill ◽  
To Receive ◽  
Significant Attention

“You could tell by their blank faces that most of them had no idea what the provisions really meant.” Using almost these identical words, two different congressional staff members described two separate groups: (a) the members of a congressional committee considering a Medicare reform provision at a committee mark-up and (b) the personal staff of these same members at a briefing on the provision prior to the mark-up. So what can we conclude about the level of information in Congress? Has the massive expansion of congressional information resources over the past two decades—including vast increases in the number of personal and committee staff and support agency personnel—been for naught?During the past three years, I have been conducting a study of the approach taken by members and staff of Congress in learning about policy issues and the implications of that approach for congressional decisionmaking. In the fall of 1984, I selected several discrete health and transportation issues which seemed likely to receive significant attention over the entire two years of the 99th Congress. My strategy was to study, for each issue, a sample of congressional “enterprises”—each made up of a member of Congress and his or her staff—as they followed and became involved in the development of the issue. My interest was in communication about these issues both within each enterprise and among all the various enterprises. At this point, nearing the conclusion of the fieldwork, I have conducted over 300 interviews, including meeting with certain key staff members as often as six times in order to monitor their evolving understanding of the issues.

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