Toward More Meaningful Accountability to the Public

Accountability for Performance in a more Contractually Oriented Public Sector

The theme of this conference, ‘New Days, New Ways’ is very appropriate and timely given the nature of the challenges currently facing the Australian Public Service (APS). It could be argued that the APS has been steadily evolving towards a more private sector orientation over the last decade or so more so recently as a consequence of the momentum of the National Competition Policy reforms See I...

Meaningful And More Meaningful: A Modest Measure

We often describe lives (or parts of lives) as meaningful or as not meaningful. It is also common to characterize them as more or less meaningful. Some lives, we tend to think, are more meaningful than others. But how then can one compare lives with respect to how much meaning they contain? Can one? This paper argues that (i) only a notion of rough equality can be used when comparing different ...

HALE and hearty: Toward more meaningful health measurement in the clinical setting.

Recent major analyses of global burden of disease reinforce a familiar critique: despite vastly greater health spending than any other country, population health outcomes in the US are unacceptably poor. The Institute of Medicine estimates that we spend about $750 billion annually on health care in excess of what should achieve the observed health outcomes. Such inefficiency underlies health ca...

Analytic Attitude toward the Contemporary Urban Public Spaces Related to the Communal Rituals

Normality--toward a meaningful construct.

T HE TERM “NORMAL” has become, if it has not already been, a liability to the special language of adult psychiatry. Despite the shaky foundation supporting the use of this term, it is frequently leaned upon as though it designated one of the pillars of psychiatric thought. This paper explores the need for and the neglect of the scientific underpinnings which the widespread employment of the ter...