Good governance in the public sector implies high accountability levels. Accountability is a multidimensional concept that includes quantity and reliability of disclosures as well rendering accounts to citizenry. Nowadays, good governance, accountability, financial performance are key for long-term sustainability autonomous organizations. The objective this paper study how features relate quali...

OBJECTIVES To describe the US public health nutrition workforce and its future social, biological and fiscal challenges. DESIGN Literature review primarily for the four workforce surveys conducted since 1985 by the Association of State and Territorial Public Health Nutrition Directors. SETTING The United States. SUBJECTS Nutrition personnel working in governmental health agencies. The 198...

Conservation easements have increased dramatically but their social and ecological outcomes are largely unknown. To examine the influence of social relations and institutional structure on easement design and conservation outcomes, we compared two regions where land trusts hold conservation easements protecting large areas of private rangeland: Lassen Foothills, California, and Malpai Borderlan...

biodiversity degradation, lose of wetlands and arsenic pollution are becoming the major environmental threats of bangladesh. huge number of population, corruption and lack of capacity of the governmental agencies are deteriorating the over environmental condition of bangladesh. this paper reports the findings of ngos and their role in protection of wetlands of bangladesh. ministry of environmen...

While much has been written about marginalization as a structural phenomenon, there is little understanding of how the dynamics of marginalization unfold at the micro level in urban contexts. We seek to understand these micro-level marginalization processes via a comparative study of Bangalore, India, and Ronneby, Sweden. Our analysis highlights the important role that “mediators” such as gover...

The Indian River county health department, environmental health division (IRCHD EH) in Florida implemented the Protocol for Assessing Community Excellence in Environmental Health (PACE EH) in the low-income community of West Wabasso, Florida. Over two and a half years, IRCHD EH worked with the community and various governmental agencies to bring much-needed improvements to the area. At the end ...

The rapid aging trend in South Korea will cause a growing shortage of labor and decreasing quality of the labor force. The purpose of this commentary is to recommend a health care strategy to maintain and promote the work ability of employees in an aging Korea. Strategies to promote the work ability require the collaboration of governmental agencies at the central and local levels. First, the c...