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Identifying Positive Net-Revenue Generation OpportunitiesThe Bridge Street Development Corporation (BSDC) in Bedford-Stuyvesant promotes central Brooklyn’s economic and cultural vibrancy through its community engagement, senior services, economic development, homebuyer assistance, and real estate development …
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NYU Wagner's Beth Noveck Honored as “Civic Innovator” of the YearBeth Noveck, Founder and Director of The Governance Lab at NYU Wagner, is among a group of civic innovators from around the globe who have just been honored by the nonpartisan National Democratic Institute (NDI) for their efforts to use technology to hold …
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Decentralization, Housing Provision, and Spatial Form in Cape TownThe Lincoln Institute of Land Policy is a leading resource for key issues concerning the use, regulation, and taxation of land. The Institute engaged the Capstone team to build on a previously conducted overview assessment of metropolitan governance, …
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Designing a Performance Measurement System for the City of NewburghThe City of Newburgh, a town of 30,000 residents located on the Hudson River about 60 miles north of New York City, requested assistance in measuring its government performance. The Capstone team partnered with the City; Pattern for Progress, a local …
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Marc GourevitchMarc N. Gourevitch, MD., MPH, is Professor and founding Chair of the Department of Population Health at the NYU School of Medicine. The focus of Dr. Gourevitch's work is on developing approaches that leverage both healthcare delivery and policy- and …
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CENTERS OF EXCELLENCE IN BREAST CANCER CAREEmblemHealth, one of the largest nonprofit health plans in the United States, formed through the merger of Group Health Incorporated and the Health Insurance Plan of Greater New York in 2006. Headquartered in Manhattan, EmblemHealth's goal is to provide …
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NYU Wagner Names Carla Jackie Sampson as Director of HPAM and Online MHA degree programsNYU Wagner is delighted to announce the appointment of Professor Carla Jackie Sampson to serve as Director of the Health Policy and Management (HPAM) Program and the Online Master of Health Administration (MHA) Program. Carla Jackie Sampson, Ph.D., MBA, …
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Areas of focus The NYU Wagner Labor Initiative explores, advocates for, and accelerates the often-untapped potential of government in safeguarding and advancing workers' rights, focusing on pressing issues such as minimum wage, worker protections and safety, employee …
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Report Spotlights 15 Most Innovative Urban Policy Initiatives GloballyWhat are the 15 most innovative policy initiatives under way in cities around the world? Offering a fresh approach, these promising programs – potential models and inspirations across geographies and sectors – are identified in a new report by Wagner …
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How Microfinance Really WorksAbout half of the world’s adults lack bank accounts. Most of these “unbanked” are deemed too expensive to serve, or not worth the hassle created by banking regulations. But what may be good business from a banker’s perspective isn’t necessarily what’s …
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Emergency Department Use: The New York StoryThe inability of the nation's health care delivery system to assure access to basic primary care services for large segments of the population has meant that hospital emergency departments (EDs) are the providers of first and last resort for millions of …
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Contribution of Primary Care to Health Systems and HealthEvidence of the health-promoting influence of primary care has been accumulating ever since researchers have been able to distinguish primary care from other aspects of the health services delivery system. This evidence shows that primary care helps …
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Primary care impact on health outcomes: A literature reviewEvidence of the health-promoting influence of primary care has been accumulating ever since researchers have been able to distinguish primary care from other aspects of the health services delivery system. This evidence shows that primary care helps …
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Leadership Development for Global HealthWritten by an international panel of distinguished global health experts, this book distills valuable lessons from a wide variety of successful health programs that have been implemented around the world. "Global Health Leadership and Management gives …
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The Dynamics of Life Stressors and Depressive Symptoms in Early Adolescence: A Test of Six Theoretical ModelsStructural equation modeling was used to compare 6 competing theoretically based psychosocial models of the longitudinal association between life stressors and depressive symptoms in a sample of early adolescents ( N = 907; 40% Hispanic, 32% Black, and …
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Infrastructure Impacts and Adaptation ChallengesCreating an overall climate change adaptation strategy for urban infrastructure poses considerable conceptual and operational challenges. An understanding of the characteristics of a city's infrastructure that make it particularly vulnerable to the …
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Power and the objectification of social targetsObjectification has been defined historically as a process of subjugation whereby people, like objects, are treated as means to an end. The authors hypothesized that objectification is a response to social power that involves approaching useful social …
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Uninsured motorists and unsafe drivers: The role of compulsory insurance regulationsThis paper investigates the incentive effects of automobile insurance, compulsory insurance laws, and no-fault liability laws on driver behavior and traffic fatalities. We analyze a panel of 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia for 1970–98, …
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Narrative Inquiry and the Search for Connectedness: Practitioners and Academics Developing Public Administration ScholarshipMaintaining a vibrant field of public administration requires ongoing efforts to link the worlds of academic researchers and practitioners. We suggest that research itself, traditionally pursued by academics, is a promising mechanism for making this …
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Risk and Insurance in Transition: Perspectives from Zouping County, ChinaThis book explores the role of community in facilitating the transition to market relationships in economic development, and in controlling and sustaining local public goods such as irrigation, forests, grazing land, and fishing grounds. Previously it was …
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Pathways to Nonprofit ExcellenceFourth in a series of reports on the changing nature of public service in government and the nonprofit sector, Pathways to Excellence focuses on a unique survey of contemporary thinking about creating effective nonprofit organizations. Based on interviews …
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Efforts to Improve Public Policy and Programs Through Improved "Data Practice": Experiences in Fifteen Distressed American Cities"Philanthropies and government agencies interested in children's issues are encouraging localities to improve the process of collecting, linking, and sharing microdata and aggregated summary statistics. An implicit assumption of these efforts is that …
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Sensegiving and the Role of Cognitive Shifts In the Work of LeadershipSensegiving -- shaping how people understand themselves, their work, and others engaged in that work -- is critical to the work of organizational leadership. We propose the cognitive shift, a change in how an organizational audience understands an …
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Appealing a Final Grade at NYU WagnerAppealing a Final Grade at NYU Wagner A final grade earned in a course taught by an NYU Wagner instructor will be changed only in exceptional circumstances. Grading is a matter of the discretion of the instructor in his or her application of the NYU …