Civil Service Reform in China: Impacts on Civil Servants' Behaviour

Civil servants and politics : A delicate balance

This recently published anthology contains twelve chapters authored by various primarily European academics, who address the balance between civil servants and politicians. The book is divided into three sections, the first of which sets the scene and explains the apparent increasing tension between civil servants and politicians. The second section includes a number of country studies, chosen ...

Civil Service Reform in Africa: Mixed Results After 10 Years

Smoking Patterns in Ghanaian Civil Servants: Changes Over Three Decades

The number of smokers in developing countries is expected to increase as markets in high income countries begin to decline and multinational tobacco companies shift their marketing efforts to lower income countries. We determined the prevalence and distribution of smoking in a cross-sectional study of 1,015 urban civil servants in Accra, Ghana (82.7% participation rate) in 2006. The results wer...

Work characteristics and psychiatric disorder in civil servants in London.

STUDY OBJECTIVE To describe the association between self reported and externally assessed work characteristics and psychiatric disorder. DESIGN Analysis of questionnaire data collected from the first phase of the Whitehall II study, a cohort study of an employed population. SETTING Twenty civil service departments in London. PARTICIPANTS Altogether 6900 male and 3414 female civil servants...

Lifestyle and health-related quality of life: A cross-sectional study among civil servants in China

BACKGROUND Health-related quality of life (HRQoL) has been increasingly acknowledged as a valid and appropriate indicator of public health and chronic morbidity. However, limited research was conducted among Chinese civil servants owing to the different lifestyle. The aim of the study was to evaluate the HRQoL among Chinese civil servants and to identify factors might be associated with their H...