In Mao’s Beijing

2021 ◽  
pp. 69-79
Author(s):  
Yuan-tsung Chen
Keyword(s):  
Deputy Minister ◽  
The Public

In 1950, Yuan-tsung embarked on her literary career in the Scenario Department of the Central Film Bureau, where the man who supervised the department was a Party heavyweight, Zhou Yang, the executive deputy minister of culture, Mao’s culture czar. She attracted his attention by discussing the books of Tolstoy and Lunacharsky. She sought to understand his complexity—the public man, who spoke out firmly for Mao’s demand that literature and art serve the Party, and the private man, who told his friends and cronies that Mao’s ideas were out of date. Her naive conviction was that her literary ambitions would bloom under Zhou Yang’s guidance.

THE PEDIATRICIAN AND THE PUBLIC

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1951 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 430-445
Keyword(s):  
Health Insurance ◽  
Medical Care ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Growth And Development ◽  
The United States ◽  
Senior Author ◽  
Health Conditions ◽  
Deputy Minister ◽  
The Public ◽  
Source Of Information

THE first communication is a statement by the American Board of Pediatrics on the importance of better training in the care of the well child during its period of growth and development. The second communication is by Dr. Frederick D. Mott, Acting Deputy Minister of the Department of Public Health in the Province of Saskatchewan. Dr. Mott is an authority on medical care in rural areas and is senior author of Rural Health and Medical Care (McGraw-Hill, 1948), an outstanding source of information on health conditions and medical services in the rural areas of the United States. This communication requires reference to an earlier statement in the Journal of Pediatrics (31:228, August, 1947) by the Canadian Medical Association in which that association approved the principle of health insurance and maintained the opinion that health insurance programs should be developed by the various provinces in accordance with their local needs. Dr. Mott's paper describes what has been done in Saskatchewan.

scholarly journals WHAT IS “STRATEGIC COMMUNICATIONS”?

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marina Gordeladze
Keyword(s):  
Public Relations ◽  
Strategic Communication ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Strategic Communications ◽  
The West ◽  
Sharp Separation ◽  
Deputy Minister ◽  
The Public ◽  
Or Groups

Strategic Communications, (contracted to “StratCom”) as a separate field/profession, is still in the process of formation and, consequently, is not fully studied yet, especially in Georgia. Moreover, even the individuals working in this field find it difficult to properly understand the importance and functions of “StratCom” and, in general, to distinguish it from communication and information disciplines such as “public relations”. Despite the importance and urgency of the issue (especially in today’s information-laden environment), this topic has not been studied in depth. The present paper directly and clearly confirms that the current definitions of “Strategic Communications” and the authors’ reasoning do not form the basis for creating an independent theoretical framework for the profession, which in turn, would end any professional misunderstandings and also no longer mislead individuals or educational institutions. Some experts in this field have been trying for years to create a theoretical framework for “Strategic Communications”, which, as a rule, should be a sharp separation of “StratCom” from other related disciplines and set a different scope, goals or objectives for this new discipline. Nevertheless, the above-mentioned attempts fail to lead us to the desired result. The use of “Strategic Communications” as an information discipline in professional, educational institutions or government agencies is done by “individual” interpretation of certain persons and/or groups. A good and clear example of this issue is the statement made by the Deputy Minister of Defense of the Czech Republic, Jan Havranek, noting that strategic communication is often confused with “public relations” or even political technologies. Compared to the complicated situation in the “West”, the case is even worse on its periphery, for example in Georgia, where the import of knowledge and experience on the “StratCom” started from the “West”. The purpose of this paper is to provide the public with a critical understanding of the existing definitions of “strategic communications” and, secondly, to share with them a discussion of the relevance regarding our vision of strategic communications. The paper uses all the basic literature that would more or less enable us to discuss the existing terms, show us the essence of the problem and help us to achieve the purpose of the publication: to explain the “Strategic Communications”, to establish/understand the relevance of the vision.

Replications can cause distorted belief in scientific progress

2018 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michał Białek
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
Scientific Progress ◽  
The Public ◽  
Psychological Science

AbstractIf we want psychological science to have a meaningful real-world impact, it has to be trusted by the public. Scientific progress is noisy; accordingly, replications sometimes fail even for true findings. We need to communicate the acceptability of uncertainty to the public and our peers, to prevent psychology from being perceived as having nothing to say about reality.

Hospitals: N.Y. Appellate Court Denies Move to Privatize Public Hospital

1999 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 202-203
Author(s):  
Robert Chatham
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Public Health System ◽  
Municipal Hospital ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Benefit ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Benefit Corporation ◽  
The City

The Court of Appeals of New York held, in Council of the City of New York u. Giuliani, slip op. 02634, 1999 WL 179257 (N.Y. Mar. 30, 1999), that New York City may not privatize a public city hospital without state statutory authorization. The court found invalid a sublease of a municipal hospital operated by a public benefit corporation to a private, for-profit entity. The court reasoned that the controlling statute prescribed the operation of a municipal hospital as a government function that must be fulfilled by the public benefit corporation as long as it exists, and nothing short of legislative action could put an end to the corporation's existence.In 1969, the New York State legislature enacted the Health and Hospitals Corporation Act (HHCA), establishing the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation (HHC) as an attempt to improve the New York City public health system. Thirty years later, on a renewed perception that the public health system was once again lacking, the city administration approved a sublease of Coney Island Hospital from HHC to PHS New York, Inc. (PHS), a private, for-profit entity.

Democrazy—Dem Go Craze, O: Monitoring the 1999 Nigerian Elections

1999 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-33
Author(s):  
Darren Kew
Keyword(s):  
Transition Program ◽  
The Political ◽  
High Stakes ◽  
Political Class ◽  
Soccer Match ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Military

In many respects, the least important part of the 1999 elections were the elections themselves. From the beginning of General Abdusalam Abubakar’s transition program in mid-1998, most Nigerians who were not part of the wealthy “political class” of elites—which is to say, most Nigerians— adopted their usual politically savvy perspective of siddon look (sit and look). They waited with cautious optimism to see what sort of new arrangement the military would allow the civilian politicians to struggle over, and what in turn the civilians would offer the public. No one had any illusions that anything but high-stakes bargaining within the military and the political class would determine the structures of power in the civilian government. Elections would influence this process to the extent that the crowd influences a soccer match.

A Rural County Speech and Language Program

1977 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 250-255 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hildegarde Traywick
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
Speech And Language ◽  
Rural County ◽  
Language Program ◽  
The Public ◽  
Madison County

This paper describes the organization and implementation of an effective speech and language program in the public schools of Madison County, Alabama, a rural, sparsely settled area.

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