*Bureau of Public Assistance, Technical Training Service. Miss Lally, formerly welfare consultant with UNRRA in England, France, and Germany, was technical adviser to the United States representative at the Social Commission meetings. Vital decisions on pressing emergent problems and the necessity for laying the foundation for long-range planning for international organization in the social fie...

In 1997, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Kofi Annan launched a comprehensive reform initiative aimed at transforming the Organization into a more effective, modernized and relevant instrument in the service of the international community. In the management area, he proposed shifting from programme budgeting to results-based budgeting (RBB). This was a significant shift in budgeting...

The new United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities creates a new paradigm for mental health law, moving from a focus on institutional care to a focus on community-based services and treatment. This article considers implementation of this approach in Africa.

Medicine and politics have a common aim, the welfare of people, and the ideas and language of one influence the other. There are parallels between medicine, particularly its more cutting-edge aspects, and international affairs; and the more aggressive forms of medicine, like the more aggressive forms of international relationships, seem to be about short-term gain, based on little evidence, wit...

Scientific Advisor: David B. Bylund, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, USA. Scientific Reviewers: Solomon H. Snyder, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA; and Frederick Petty, Creighton University School of Medicine, Omaha, Nebraska, USA. Breakthroughs in Bioscience Committee: David L. Brautigan, University of Virginia School of Medicine, C...

This paper examines whether government ideology has influenced the allocation of public expenditures in OECD countries. I analyze two datasets that report different expenditure categories and cover the time periods 1970-1997 and 1990-2006, respectively. The results suggest that government ideology has had a rather weak influence on the composition of governments’ budgets. Leftist governments, h...

AlAn lyles, sc.D., M.P.H., is Professor, School of Public Affairs, University of Baltimore, Baltimore, MD. John FAnikos, B.S., M.B.A., is Assistant Director of Pharmacy, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA. kAy Jewell, M.D., is Assistant Professor of Clinical Pharmacy, Bouvé College of Health Sciences, Northeastern University, Boston, and Chief Medical Officer, SMT, Inc., Shrewsbury, NJ. A...

1. The Parties and Public Policy. Throughout this report political parties are treated as indispensable instruments of government. That is to say, we proceed on the proposition that popular government in a nation of more than 150 million people requires political parties which provide the electorate with a proper range of choice between alternatives of action. The party system thus serves as th...

By Elizabeth Ogg. (Public Affairs Pamphlet No. 136 C. Public Affairs Pampnw 381 Park Avenue South, New York, N.Y., U.S.A. 25 cents.) This is a concise, no-nonsense American account of the various available meth<& of contraception, from folk methods such as sponges soaked in vinegar to the P' j how it works and when it is inadvisable. The pamphlet sets out the pros and cons 0 different devices s...