BACKGROUND Vaccination programs often organize subsidies and public relations in order to obtain high uptake rates and coverage. However, effects of subsidies and public relations have not been studied well in the literature. In this study, the demand function of pneumococcal vaccination among the elderly in Japan is estimated, incorporating effects of public relations and subsidy. METHODS Us...

This paper describes the management of public relations following an outbreak of multidrug resistant TB at a London hospital. Eight patients were involved, all of the secondary cases occurred in HIV seropositive patients, and three cases died. The paper describes how the the Incident Committee undertook to recall contacts of the cases for screening, inform the general practitioners of all of th...

While the technical details discussed in this manual pertain largely to the press of the American Medical Association, they are, however, applicable in large measure to other Journals. The value of the book as a guidebook tends to be obscured a bit by the value of the text as a joke-book, although "joke-book" is hardly the proper term to apply, for it can hardly be considered a joke when men wi...

the aim of this study is to evaluate the sport marketing mix and its seven elements (product, price, promotion, place, public relations, people, and physical evidence) in iran’s volleyball super league from the viewpoint of ministry of sport and volleyball federation managers in two conditions, namely existing and optimal. for this purpose, 102 subjects, among them the official staffs in the mi...

Product quality and industry-public relationships enhance organisations' reputations worldwide. In Nigeria, both are critical to the automobile industry already bugged by public distrust low confidence. Thus, study examined relations (PR) actions of indigenous companies amid these challenges.

Public perception of public relations practitioners was measured using a telephone survey with a source manipulation experiment interwoven into a standard opinion poll. The nationwide sample (N = 593) revealed that sources affiliated with the organization on whose behalf they speak are viewed more negatively than unaffiliated sources. In addition, public relations practitioners were judged no m...