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The Future for Health Promotion

By: Colin Palfrey

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The Future for Health Promotion

By: Colin Palfrey

Does health promotion have a lasting and positive effect on people? With mounting pressure to reduce costs to the NHS and increasing scepticism of the so-called nanny state, health promotion initiatives are increasingly being criticised as costly and ineffective, with many arguing that health inequalities can only be reduced through radical political and economic change. This book examines the methods used to evaluate the value of health promotion projects and determines whether attempts to change people’s lifestyles have proved successful. Taking into account the practical and ethical issues involved in deciding the appropriate approach to take in efforts to reduce health inequalities, the book assesses what might be the best path forward for health promotion.

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Policy Press

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1447341252

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9781447341253

Evaluation for the Real World

The Impact of Evidence in Policy Making

By: Colin Palfrey,Paul Thomas,Ceri Phillips

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Evaluation for the Real World

The Impact of Evidence in Policy Making

By: Colin Palfrey,Paul Thomas,Ceri Phillips

This valuable book examines the development of evaluation and its impact on public policy by analysing evaluation frameworks and criteria which are available when evaluating public policies and services.

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Policy Press

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1847429149

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9781847429148

Evaluating Health and Social Care

By: Colin Palfrey,Ceri Phillips,Paul Thomas

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Evaluating Health and Social Care

By: Colin Palfrey,Ceri Phillips,Paul Thomas

A practical book, based on sound theoretical models, which explores the main criteria available for evaluating social care and health services. The book explains why the various criteria are used, identifies the problems inherent in using them, and offers specific guidance on how to use each of the criteria. The guidance offered is seen as important at a time when health and social care agencies are under increasing pressure to evaluate and improve their performance.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1349231320

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9781349231324

The Social Construction of Dementia

Confused Professionals?

By: Nancy Harding,Colin Palfrey

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The Social Construction of Dementia

Confused Professionals?

By: Nancy Harding,Colin Palfrey

This text outlines the limited knowledge base about dementia and covers the effects which that has on the design of services for people with dementia. The authors have researched designs and methods for assessing the impact of services upon service receivers, including family carers.

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Macmillan

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1853022578

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9781853022579

Safe Spaces, Brave Spaces

Diversity and Free Expression in Education

By: John Palfrey

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Safe Spaces, Brave Spaces

Diversity and Free Expression in Education

By: John Palfrey

How the essential democratic values of diversity and free expression can coexist on campus. Safe spaces, trigger warnings, microaggressions, the disinvitation of speakers, demands to rename campus landmarks—debate over these issues began in lecture halls and on college quads but ended up on op-ed pages in the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, on cable news, and on social media. Some of these critiques had merit, but others took a series of cheap shots at “crybullies” who needed to be coddled and protected from the real world. Few questioned the assumption that colleges must choose between free expression and diversity. In Safe Spaces, Brave Spaces, John Palfrey argues that the essential democratic values of diversity and free expression can, and should, coexist on campus. Palfrey, currently Head of School at Phillips Academy, Andover, and formerly Professor and Vice Dean at Harvard Law School, writes that free expression and diversity are more compatible than opposed. Free expression can serve everyone—even if it has at times been dominated by white, male, Christian, heterosexual, able-bodied citizens. Diversity is about self-expression, learning from one another, and working together across differences; it can encompass academic freedom without condoning hate speech. Palfrey proposes an innovative way to support both diversity and free expression on campus: creating safe spaces and brave spaces. In safe spaces, students can explore ideas and express themselves with without feeling marginalized. In brave spaces—classrooms, lecture halls, public forums—the search for knowledge is paramount, even if some discussions may make certain students uncomfortable. The strength of our democracy, says Palfrey, depends on a commitment to upholding both diversity and free expression, especially when it is hardest to do so.

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MIT Press

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0262535963

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9780262535960

Stepping Stones to Creativity

By: Judith Harris,Mel Astill,Elizabeth Palfrey

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Stepping Stones to Creativity

By: Judith Harris,Mel Astill,Elizabeth Palfrey

This guide contains four books-worth of creative activities for the early years in one bumper-value guide. Perfect to dip into, this gem of a guide features: - Hundreds of easy-to-follow activities that cover 40 of the most popular early years topics - Each topic contains ideas for singing, dance, movement, storytelling, art and design, and drama - An easy-reference key showing which of the Creative Development Early Learning Goals are being explored An essential for anyone wanting new and creative ideas for use in topic work with the early years. This book is a compendium of all the activities from the following four Stepping Stones to Creativity titles: Dance and Movement; Design, Art and Modelling; Stories, Songs and Rhymes and Drama and Role Play.

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Andrews UK Limited

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1909101001

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9781909101005

Quantal Response Equilibrium

A Stochastic Theory of Games

By: Jacob K. Goeree,Charles A. Holt,Thomas R. Palfrey

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Quantal Response Equilibrium

A Stochastic Theory of Games

By: Jacob K. Goeree,Charles A. Holt,Thomas R. Palfrey

Quantal Response Equilibrium presents a stochastic theory of games that unites probabilistic choice models developed in psychology and statistics with the Nash equilibrium approach of classical game theory. Nash equilibrium assumes precise and perfect decision making in games, but human behavior is inherently stochastic and people realize that the behavior of others is not perfectly predictable. In contrast, QRE models choice behavior as probabilistic and extends classical game theory into a more realistic and useful framework with broad applications for economics, political science, management, and other social sciences. Quantal Response Equilibrium spans the range from basic theoretical foundations to examples of how the principles yield useful predictions and insights in strategic settings, including voting, bargaining, auctions, public goods provision, and more. The approach provides a natural framework for estimating the effects of behavioral factors like altruism, reciprocity, risk aversion, judgment fallacies, and impatience. New theoretical results push the frontiers of models that include heterogeneity, learning, and well-specified behavioral modifications of rational choice and rational expectations. The empirical relevance of the theory is enhanced by discussion of data from controlled laboratory experiments, along with a detailed users' guide for estimation techniques. Quantal Response Equilibrium makes pioneering game-theoretic methods and interdisciplinary applications available to a wide audience.

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Princeton University Press

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069112423X

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9780691124230

Shakespeare in Parts

By: Simon Palfrey,Tiffany Stern

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Shakespeare in Parts

By: Simon Palfrey,Tiffany Stern

A truly groundbreaking collaboration of original theatre history with exciting literary criticism, Shakespeare in Parts is the first book fully to explore the original form in which Shakespeare's drama overwhelmingly circulated. This was not the full play-text; it was not the public performance. It was the actor's part, consisting of the bare cues and speeches of each individual role. With group rehearsals rare or non-existent, the cued part alone had to furnish the actor with his character. But each such part-text was riddled with gaps and uncertainties. The actor knew what he was going to say, but not necessarily when, or why, or to whom; he may have known next to nothing of any other part. Starting with a comprehensive history of the part in early modern theatre, Simon Palfrey and Tiffany Stern's work provides a unique keyhole onto hitherto forgotten practices and techniques. It not only discovers a newly active, choice-ridden actor, but a new Shakespeare.

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Oxford University Press

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0199272050

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9780199272051

Interop

The Promise and Perils of Highly Interconnected Systems

By: John Palfrey,Urs Gasser

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Interop

The Promise and Perils of Highly Interconnected Systems

By: John Palfrey,Urs Gasser

In Interop, technology experts John Palfrey and Urs Gasser explore the immense importance of interoperability -- the standardization and integration of technology -- and show how this simple principle will hold the key to our success in the coming decades and beyond. The practice of standardization has been facilitating innovation and economic growth for centuries. The standardization of the railroad gauge revolutionized the flow of commodities, the standardization of money revolutionized debt markets and simplified trade, and the standardization of credit networks has allowed for the purchase of goods using money deposited in a bank half a world away. These advancements did not eradicate the different systems they affected; instead, each system has been transformed so that it can interoperate with systems all over the world, while still preserving local diversity. As Palfrey and Gasser show, interoperability is a critical aspect of any successful system -- and now it is more important than ever. Today we are confronted with challenges that affect us on a global scale: the financial crisis, the quest for sustainable energy, and the need to reform health care systems and improve global disaster response systems. The successful flow of information across systems is crucial if we are to solve these problems, but we must also learn to manage the vast degree of interconnection inherent in each system involved. Interoperability offers a number of solutions to these global challenges, but Palfrey and Gasser also consider its potential negative effects, especially with respect to privacy, security, and co-dependence of states; indeed, interoperability has already sparked debates about document data formats, digital music, and how to create successful yet safe cloud computing. Interop demonstrates that, in order to get the most out of interoperability while minimizing its risks, we will need to fundamentally revisit our understanding of how it works, and how it can allow for improvements in each of its constituent parts. In Interop, Palfrey and Gasser argue that there needs to be a nuanced, stable theory of interoperability -- one that still generates efficiencies, but which also ensures a sustainable mode of interconnection. Pointing the way forward for the new information economy, Interop provides valuable insights into how technological integration and innovation can flourish in the twenty-first century.

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Basic Books

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0465029337

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9780465029334

Born Digital

Understanding the First Generation of Digital Natives

By: John Palfrey,Urs Gasser

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Born Digital

Understanding the First Generation of Digital Natives

By: John Palfrey,Urs Gasser

The first generation of Digital Natives children who were born into and raised in the digital world are coming of age, and soon our world will be reshaped in their image. Our economy, our politics, our culture, and even the shape of our family life will be forever transformed. But who are these Digital Natives? And what is the world theyre creating going to look like? In Born Digital, leading Internet and technology experts John Palfrey and Urs Gasser offer a sociological portrait of these young people, who can seem, even to those merely a generation older, both extraordinarily sophisticated and strangely narrow. Exploring a broad range of issues, from the highly philosophical to the purely practical, Born Digital will be essential reading for parents, teachers, and the myriad of confused adults who want to understand the digital present and shape the digital future.

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ReadHowYouWant.com

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1458725448

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9781458725448

Bayesian Implementation

By: Thomas R. Palfrey

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Bayesian Implementation

By: Thomas R. Palfrey

The implementation problem lies at the heart of a theory of institutions. Simply stated, the aim of implementation theory is to investigate in a rigorous way the relationships between outcomes in a society and how those outcomes arise. The first part of "Bayesian Implementation" presents a basic model of the Bayesian implementation problem and summarizes and explains recent developments in this branch of implementation theory. Substantive problems of interest such as public goods provision, auctions and bargaining are special cases of the model, and these are addressed in subsequent chapters.

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CRC Press

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1000154645

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9781000154641

The Future for Health Promotion

By: Colin Palfrey

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The Future for Health Promotion

By: Colin Palfrey

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1447341244

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Evaluation for the Real World

The Impact of Evidence in Policy Making

By: Colin Palfrey,Paul Thomas,Ceri Phillips

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The Impact of Evidence in Policy Making

By: Colin Palfrey,Paul Thomas,Ceri Phillips

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Key Concepts in Healthcare Policy and Planning

An Introductory Text

By: Colin Palfrey

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Key Concepts in Healthcare Policy and Planning

An Introductory Text

By: Colin Palfrey

This concise textbook provides an introduction to health policy and planning. Aimed at students as well as practitioners, the book examines key concepts and models of health policy and planning in such a way that they can be applied to any context.

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0333777409

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9780333777404

Evaluating Health and Social Care

By: Colin Palfrey,Ceri Phillips,Paul Thomas

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Evaluating Health and Social Care

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1349231320

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Cardiff Soul

An Underground Guide to the City

By: Colin Palfrey

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Cardiff Soul

An Underground Guide to the City

By: Colin Palfrey

A lively and witty introduction to the real Cardiff by the author of The Unofficial Guide to Wales, Colin Palfrey. From Caroline Street's restaurants to Saturday Lagernights, here is an honest and fascinating portrayal of Wales's capital city.

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Ylolfa

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0862439094

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9780862439095

Getting Your Child Involved with Computers

Computer Literacy,starting Their First Blog and Protecting Them Online

By: Colin Palfrey

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Getting Your Child Involved with Computers

Computer Literacy,starting Their First Blog and Protecting Them Online

By: Colin Palfrey

Getting Your Child Involved With Computers: In this guide you will learn the easiest ways to protect your children from seeing objectionable material online, while giving them an understanding of computers that will help them throughout their life. You will be able to help them to start blogging. This will not only give them a head start in life, the useful skills they learn will also create a productive and enjoyable hobby for them. Understanding computers is no longer just an advantage, it is something that is needed throughout life. This guide has been written so that even someone with a very basic knowledge of computers can still help their child excel in this field. Not only will you learn how to give your child this head-start, you will be able to do so secure in the knowledge they won't see anything inappropriate.

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