Public sector

Fifth, improving public health and disease prevention. A fundamental component of ongoing healthcare reform efforts must center on creating a system that improves health and promotes healthy behaviors, beyond just diagnosing and treating disease. Chronic disease affects health and quality of life, but it is also a major driver of health care costs and has a related impact on businesses. It is estimated that nearly half of all American suffer from at least one of the top chronic diseases,…

Japan is located on the east coast of Asia that consists of over 6,852 islands with four main islands: Hokkaido, Honshu, Kyushu, and Shikoku (“Japan’s Geography,” 2014). Almost 80% of Japan’s population lives on Honshu Island (“Where is Japan,” 2012). Japan is the sixty-second largest country based on the area measurement, and it is comparable to the state of California. It consists of a coastline, which is 29,751 kilometers in length without any land boundary (“Where is Japan,” 2014). The…

staffed with non-elected officials. Today, bureaucracy is the administrative system governing any large institution1. Bureaucracy encompasses both public and private sector organizations that are large, hierarchically organized and highly specialized2. Public sector employees are derisively called bureaucrats. There are about 22 million public employees2. Public bureaucracy has a major part to play in setting the agenda, formulating health care policy and implementing health policy2. The…

also comes into play when dealing with the economy and spending. The crowding out effect is the relation between public and private sector spending. This is an economic theory that rises in the public sector drive down or even eliminate private sector spending (Investopedia,2015). The result is that where the government is purchasing at a higher level it will result in the private sector not being involved in the buying of those goods. This could be related to the fact that the government is…

protecting consumers, patients, and enhancing public health globally by maximizing compliance of FDA regulated drugs, products, and devices and minimizing risk associated with those products. While FDA’s overarching mission remains the same, it has added additional products to regulate and further expansion of its global reach. FDA is now responsibility for regulating the manufacturing, marketing, and distribution of tobacco products to protect the public health and to reduce tobacco use by…

The unique element of public relations writing is that it is the attempt to establish positive relations between an organization and its various publics. Other forms of writing, such as journalism, documentaries and fiction are not meant to leave the public with a positive image. While, they can have a positive effect they are used to tell stories, to express one’s opinion and to tell one-side of a story. Writing for public relations focuses on using a written platform to communicate a…

analyzed properly, that’s why we have a public relations department. We as practitioners should try to be proactive when it comes to communicating a crisis and as we have learnt that employees should be the first ones to know as they are the frontline of the…

What is the public relations issue (opportunity or problem) that the case is based upon? The main opportunity available in this case is to extend the tourism of Salem beyond the Halloween month of October to make it a yearly attractive destination to increase sales and revenue. The problem at hand is that Salem is just historically known for the city of witchcraft and they want this perception in people to change. What background(secondary) research was conducted in the case (if any)? What…

Financial information, especially strategic financial information, may be as important and valuable as marketing, public relations, and political communications (Laskin, 2014). However, as financial policies and communications are highly regulated by government oversight, including the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (Laskin, 2014), and may vary from country to country. This along…

loss of their respective wife and mother who was the first known victim of the virus. Additionally, the film also follows a handful of prominent researchers with the Centers for Disease Control as they attempt to develop a vaccine for the virus and a public relations strategy…