Equity or Efficiency? Explaining Public Officials' Values

Effectiveness, Efficiency and Equity

Health is perceived as most precious good, and people feel its vulnerability. Societies have been trying to absorb, ameliorate or compensate consequences and health risks with varying emphasis and varying success. Due to the uniqueness of good health to a persons’ ability to live the life he or she wants, health care and performance of health care systems are under critical observation. In this...

Fiscal Federalism in Australia: Equity~fficiency Versus Public Choice Approaches in Explaining Intergovernmental Grants

Intergovernmental grants have been conventionally explained on the basis of either equity/efficiency and/or institutional considerations. As a result empirical approaches to grants have usually examined the impact of these transfers on recipient government expenditures, rather than evaluated the impact on the donor government and/or its political agents. The alternative public choice approach a...

The Secret Life of Comitology or the Role of Public Officials in EC Environmental Policy *

Externalities, Efficiency and Equity

City and regional planning: a primer for public health officials.

Recognizing that planners' decisions affect the public's health, some public health officials are becoming more involved in city and regional planning. This article describes city and regional planning fundamentals to help public health practitioners better understand plan making and plan implementation, including the development project review process; provides examples of how three local publ...