Measuring public health accountability of air quality management

Air quality measures and public health policy.

EVIDENCE BASED PUBLIC HEALTH POLICY AND PRACTICE Predicted health impacts of urban air quality management

Study objective: The 1995 UK Environment Act required local authorities to review air quality and, where UK National Air Quality Strategy objectives (except ozone) are likely to be exceeded in 2005, to declare local air quality management areas and prepare action plans. This study modelled the impacts on health of reductions from current levels of PM10 to these objectives. Design: The framework...

Measuring the Public Accountability of New Modes of Governance

We present an encompassing research endeavour on the public accountability of new modes of governance in Europe. The aim of this project is to measure the salience, tonality and framing of regulatory bodies and public interest organisations in newspaper coverage and parliamentary debates over the last 15 years. In order to achieve this, we use language technology which is still underused in pol...

New Public Management Approach and Accountability

A new paradigm for public management, called “New Public Management”, has emerged since 1980s that is formed to confront the present problems. This model is originated from the fusion of economic theories and private sector management techniques. The most important particulars of this model are decreasing government size, the decentralization of management authority, the emphasis on efficiency,...

Quality management in Malaysian public health care.

PURPOSE The main aim of the study is to provide an empirical analysis of quality management practice among Malaysian Ministry of Health hospital employees, ranging from medical specialists to health attendants. DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH Self-administered questionnaires collected data and cluster sampling used to select hospitals, while stratified random sampling selected employee respondent...