Union strategy and structure in a decentralised environment: An exploratory study of the Community and Public Sector Union Michael O’Donnell, John O’Brien* and Anne Junor* Australian National University and The University of New South Wales* The paper examines the strategic and organisational responses of the union covering Australian Public Service (APS) employees, the Community and Public sec...

The Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) provides services that permit users to communicate in a secure manner on an unsecure network by means of digital certificates and cryptography primitives. However, in order to secure an application through cryptography and PKI, cryptographic primitives need to be implemented in the programming language used to develop the application. This raises scalability ...

This essay focuses on the pioneer activities of public health dentistry in Brazil and its evolution in the 20th century with emphasis on the emergency of a landmark, the sanitary dentistry. Social and preventive dentistry and market dentistry, with reference to the main theoretical works representative of these trends, are presented. The essential characteristics of collective oral health (Braz...

Public Health Dentistry is a speciality which is targeted towards the larger benefit of community and society. Dental health surveys in specific population groups should be planned adequately and the data should be analyzed in such a way so that it may help in making strategies for the intervention to improve the existing status. This could be only done with the help of proper planning, analysi...

A special study conducted by public assistance agencies in 20 States in 1946 gave answers for thefirst time to questions about the types and amount of medical services the agencies were able to provide to assistance recipients and the costs of the various services. An article in the Bulletin for June 1952 discussed medical services for aged recipients. This article deals with the costs of such ...

In 2001, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention funded three Centers for Genomics and Public Health to develop training tools for increasing genomic awareness. Over the past three years, the centers, working together with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Office of Genomics and Disease Prevention, have developed tools to increase awareness of the impact genomics will have...

This paper examines the relationship between public policies and professional practices with respect to healthcare needs. Taking a theoretical-conceptual approach, practices are defined as acts that are permeated by technical-scientific and socio-historical determinants for the social production of work, and the possibilities for cultural, ethical and political changes were analyzed in order to...