WHY DO FIRMS GO PUBLIC? Forthcoming in the Oxford Handbook of Entrepreneurial Finance James C. Brau‚ PhD‚ CFA Professor of Finance Editor‚ Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance July 1‚ 2010 Department of Finance Marriott School Brigham Young University 640 Tanner Building Provo‚ Utah 84602 Phone: 801.318.7919 Fax: 801.422.0741 Electronic copy available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1649008 WHY DO FIRMS GO PUBLIC? Six months after he founded Netscape‚ Clark agitated for the company
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preventive perspective in mental health services. After World War two psychiatrists began applying public health perspectives which focused on environmental factor on mental disorder. A proposal was made for early intervention for psychological problems and community based services as the primary focus. The public health model was used to address mental health of children. The second force that influenced community psychology included changes in the system of mental health care. After the war many veterans
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Public health is a very broad term with many different definitions and understandings. John M. Barry defined public health as the means where the largest numbers of lives are saved‚ usually by understanding the epidemiology of a disease—its patterns‚ where and how it emerges and spreads—and attacking it at its weak points. Basically‚ it is a system that performs community service by way of publicly promoting health through accessible treatment outlets‚ providing disease prevention resources‚ and
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surest of all guards against improbity. It keeps the judge himself while trying under trial.” The judiciary is considered as the most transparent body of any country where all the cases are tried and heard in public and the reasoned decisions are given in public. These decisions are open to discussion and criticism by the media and public. The basic idea behind the open courts system is that justice
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The Role of the Public Health Nurse in the Community The assignment for this paper asks about a disaster that could happen in my community. A disaster is any natural or human-made incident that causes disruption‚ and or devastation requiring external assistance (Stanhope & Lancaster‚ 2012‚ p.508). The purpose of the paper is to provide information how the professional nurse react in the community when a disaster take place. The Role of the Nurse The disaster selected for the paper
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Public opinion can be defined as sum of individuals opinions on an issue affecting those individuals but the opinion should be rational to the issue. According to Leornard W. Doob‚" public opinion also refers to people’s attitudes on an issues when they are members of same social group." Besides that‚ David Truman also stated out that "public opinion consist of the opinions of aggregate of individuals making up the public under discussion. it does not include all the opinion held by such a set of
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decreasing them as possible in accordance with all approaches and strategies at the work place. Public Health and Health Promotion. Every individual differs in culture‚ customs and practices but in spite that equal and fair treatment should be observed and implemented at all times. Residents have the right to be treated with respect and equality thus involves receiving proper treatment and health solutions. Dementia is one of the highly developing public health issues that affects older adults. An extensive
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In public health many strategies were put in place to increase someone’s life span‚ prevent illness and encourage healthy things. They had many roles within these strategies‚ starting with keeping a record of the health status of the population. They did this because they could then see what the overall health was and then they would prevent life threatening diseasing from coming out. This means they would be able to inform people with the problems that could occur. An example of this would have
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The History of Public Health and the Role of the Community/Public Health Nurse Walden University NURS 4010 Section 04‚ Family‚ Community‚ and Population-Based Care 10 / 21 / 2012 The History of Public Health and the Role of the Community/Public Health Nurse Overview Public health‚ a population-centered nursing had been in existence since the late 1880s under the guise of different names. The focus of public health nursing was on sanitation‚ communicable disease
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State and Local Health Departments. Community/public health nursing practice: health for families and populations (3rd ed.‚ p. 727). St. Louis‚ MO: Elsevier/Saunders. References Agar‚ M.H. (1973). Ethnography and the addict. In Nadar‚ L.‚ and Maretzki‚ T.W.‚ (eds.) Cultural Illness and Health. Washington‚ DC: American Anthropological Association. Agar‚ M.H. (1986). Speaking of ethnography. Beverly Hills‚ CA: Sage Publications American Nurses Association (ANA) (2007). Public health nursing: Scope
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