Making Dementia a Public Policy Issue

1999 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 248-257
Author(s):  
Rosemary V. Calder
2010 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 112-129 ◽  
Author(s):  
Teemu Kautonen ◽  
Simon Down ◽  
Friederike Welter ◽  
Pekka Vainio ◽  
Jenni Palmroos ◽  
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Author(s):  
Eduardo H. Calvillo Gámez ◽  
Rodrigo Nieto-Gómez

In this chapter, the authors play the devil‘s advocate to those who favor strict government supervision over technology itself. The authors’ argument is that technology is a “neutral” mean to an end, and that the use of technology to detract social deviations is dependent on public policy and social behavior. To elaborate their argument they propose the concept of “illicit appropriation”, based on the Human Computer Interaction concept of appropriation. The authors argue that sometimes appropriation can be geared towards activities that can be considered as illicit, and in some cases criminal. They illustrate the use of illicit appropriation through a series of case studies of current events, in which they show that either a state or the individual can rely on illicit appropriation. The authors’ final conclusion is that the use of technology to combat social deviations is not a technological problem, but a public policy issue, where a delicate balance has to be found between the enforcement of the law by technological means (approved by legislation), the user experience, the civil liberties of the individual and the checks and balances to the power of the state. This chapter is written from the expertise of the authors on Human Computer Interaction and Security Studies.


1993 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Craig Andrews ◽  
Richard G. Netemeyer ◽  
Srinivas Durvasula

The authors examine an important public policy issue, namely, the effectiveness of federally mandated and proposed alcohol warning labels. Specifically, warning label cognitive responses are tested as mediators of effects of five different alcohol warning label types on label attitudes. On the basis of requirements for ANOVA-based mediation, net support arguments mediated 76% of the warning label treatment effect on label attitudes. Following requirements for regression-based mediation, net support arguments mediated the relationship from attitude toward drinking to label attitudes. Public policy implications and future research directions are provided.


2016 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 553-571 ◽  
Author(s):  
TIM JELFS

This article considers the cultural significance of the garbage panics of the 1980s, including the voyage of the infamous Mobro 4000 “garbage barge.” The article argues that the trash at the centre of these panics is important to our understanding of both the 1980s and the present because it demanded – and still demands – that Americans see and understand it as a class of matter unmoored from temporal as well as spatial boundaries. The alarming durability of the supposedly ephemeral refuse of a culture of mass consumption invoked an “archaeological consciousness” prone to muse upon the longevity of material remains. This consciousness was expressed in various cultural and discursive arenas throughout the 1980s, revealing that durable detritus was not just a pressing public policy issue but a marker of cultural anxieties emerging out of the operations of archaeological consciousness. From concerns about contingency of the mass-consuming culture of the late twentieth-century United States to reflections on trash's own epistemological complexity, trash spoke in unexpected ways throughout the 1980s, raising important questions about the relationship between producers of culture and their audience, whose receptiveness to the urgencies of archaeological consciousness suffers from a frustrating transience as far as trash is concerned.


Textual ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 71-105
Author(s):  
Marisel Lemos Figueroa ◽  
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Julio Baca del Moral ◽  
Venancio Cuevas Reyes ◽  

2002 ◽  
Vol 25 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 143-168 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alka Sapat ◽  
Jaap J. Vos ◽  
Khi V. Thai

Author(s):  
Gerard Goggin

This article provides a brief introduction to a timely set of papers critically discussing universal service in telecommunications and proposing policy option. This is a longstanding public policy issue, moving once more into the foreground in Australia. The article puts the papers into context, and argues for the need to reconnect universal service policy with fertile and productive research, policy, social and technology innovation in other areas. Finally, the paper argues for the urgent need to fundamentally reimagine universal service to achieve the still relevant goal of access for all to essential communications technology.


Author(s):  
Márcio Barcelos

Este texto analisa o processo de construção da agenda da primeira política pública de larga escala na área de biocombustíveis no Brasil, o Programa Nacional do Álcool (PROALCOOL). É dada ênfase ao papel das ideias e á agência dos atores envolvidos. O objetivo foi rastrear o desenvolvimento de um conjunto de ideias e percepções que estabeleceram uma policy image na área de biocombustíveis, e estabeleceram os alicerces do que seria a experiência brasileira em políticas públicas para combustíveis renováveis. Utilizou-se a abordagem do rastreamento de processos (process tracing), com base em pesquisa documental, para examinar os fatores relacionados ao papel das ideias e como os agentes as mobilizaram no sentido de estabelecer o etanol como uma questão de política pública (public policy issue).


Author(s):  
Daniel J. O'Keefe

Many health-related message variations have been described as variations in the framing of the message. What different applications of the term message framing have in common is that, in each case, something gets described in different ways (with researchers having a special interest in the consequences of these different descriptions). But what that “thing” is and how the descriptions of it differ vary across different uses of the term framing. In research on health-related messages, at least three different variations have been described using “framing” as a label. One concerns variation in consequence-based arguments in persuasive messages. In this kind of framing, what varies is the description of the antecedent or consequent in arguments designed to persuade people to adopt some course of action. For example, the antecedent in an argument designed to encourage sunscreen use might be expressed as “if you wear sunscreen” or “if you don’t wear sunscreen,” and the consequent of such arguments might emphasize sunburns or skin cancer. A second concerns variation in the description of some news event, public policy issue, or health subject. For example, news media might describe obesity as controllable or as something over which one has limited control. A third concerns variation in the description of an attribute of a course of action. For example, a surgical procedure might be described as having a “90% success rate” or a “10% failure rate.”


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