The Upstream People

Author : Dan Heath
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781982134747

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Upstream by Dan Heath Pdf

Wall Street Journal Bestseller New York Times bestselling author Dan Heath explores how to prevent problems before they happen, drawing on insights from hundreds of interviews with unconventional problem solvers. So often in life, we get stuck in a cycle of response. We put out fires. We deal with emergencies. We stay downstream, handling one problem after another, but we never make our way upstream to fix the systems that caused the problems. Cops chase robbers, doctors treat patients with chronic illnesses, and call-center reps address customer complaints. But many crimes, chronic illnesses, and customer complaints are preventable. So why do our efforts skew so heavily toward reaction rather than prevention? Upstream probes the psychological forces that push us downstream—including “problem blindness,” which can leave us oblivious to serious problems in our midst. And Heath introduces us to the thinkers who have overcome these obstacles and scored massive victories by switching to an upstream mindset. One online travel website prevented twenty million customer service calls every year by making some simple tweaks to its booking system. A major urban school district cut its dropout rate in half after it figured out that it could predict which students would drop out—as early as the ninth grade. A European nation almost eliminated teenage alcohol and drug abuse by deliberately changing the nation’s culture. And one EMS system accelerated the emergency-response time of its ambulances by using data to predict where 911 calls would emerge—and forward-deploying its ambulances to stand by in those areas. Upstream delivers practical solutions for preventing problems rather than reacting to them. How many problems in our lives and in society are we tolerating simply because we’ve forgotten that we can fix them?

Author : Michael L. Tate
Publisher : Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105035207229

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The Upstream People by Michael L. Tate Pdf

The 1,836 annotated entries describe the contents and assess the strengths and weakness of books, scholarly articles, popular articles, governmental documents, newspaper columns, major archival collections, and even works of fiction. Coverage ranges beyond the frontier era to the lives of contemporary Omahas--both reservation and urban dwellers. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Electric utilities
ISBN : LOC:00186950173

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Upstream Benefits by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce Pdf

Considers H.R. 5309, H.R. 7201, and identical H.R. 7494, to amend the Federal Power Act to allow hydroelectric power plants to be charged when upstream construction or improvements on a separate project benefit the operations of the hydroelectric plant.

Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Health and Medicine Division,Board on Health Care Services,Committee on Integrating Social Needs Care into the Delivery of Health Care to Improve the Nation's Health
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-30
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780309493468

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Integrating Social Care into the Delivery of Health Care by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Health and Medicine Division,Board on Health Care Services,Committee on Integrating Social Needs Care into the Delivery of Health Care to Improve the Nation's Health Pdf

Integrating Social Care into the Delivery of Health Care: Moving Upstream to Improve the Nation's Health was released in September 2019, before the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic in March 2020. Improving social conditions remains critical to improving health outcomes, and integrating social care into health care delivery is more relevant than ever in the context of the pandemic and increased strains placed on the U.S. health care system. The report and its related products ultimately aim to help improve health and health equity, during COVID-19 and beyond. The consistent and compelling evidence on how social determinants shape health has led to a growing recognition throughout the health care sector that improving health and health equity is likely to depend â€" at least in part â€" on mitigating adverse social determinants. This recognition has been bolstered by a shift in the health care sector towards value-based payment, which incentivizes improved health outcomes for persons and populations rather than service delivery alone. The combined result of these changes has been a growing emphasis on health care systems addressing patients' social risk factors and social needs with the aim of improving health outcomes. This may involve health care systems linking individual patients with government and community social services, but important questions need to be answered about when and how health care systems should integrate social care into their practices and what kinds of infrastructure are required to facilitate such activities. Integrating Social Care into the Delivery of Health Care: Moving Upstream to Improve the Nation's Health examines the potential for integrating services addressing social needs and the social determinants of health into the delivery of health care to achieve better health outcomes. This report assesses approaches to social care integration currently being taken by health care providers and systems, and new or emerging approaches and opportunities; current roles in such integration by different disciplines and organizations, and new or emerging roles and types of providers; and current and emerging efforts to design health care systems to improve the nation's health and reduce health inequities.

Author : Lawrence Harold Larsen
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780803206021

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Upstream Metropolis by Lawrence Harold Larsen Pdf

"Being a man, like being a woman, is something you have to learn," Aaron Raz Link remarks. Few would know this better than the coauthor of What Becomes You , who began life as a girl named Sarah and twenty-nine years later began life anew as a gay man.

Author : Rowena Rae
Publisher : Orca Book Publishers
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-14
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781459823945

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Upstream, Downstream by Rowena Rae Pdf

Do you know your watershed address? We all have one, whether we live high up in a mountain, on an inland prairie or near the coast. A watershed is an area of land that channels rain and snowmelt into streams, rivers and oceans. Our lives are deeply intertwined with land and water and all the connections between them. Day-to-day activities—like brushing our teeth, eating a meal, getting a ride in a car or even using an electronic device—have consequences for our own or someone else's watershed. Over the centuries we've changed the land by farming it, cutting down the trees on it, digging into it and building on it. We've also learned how to control water—where it goes and how much flows. Upstream, Downstream explores the consequences of the pressures people place on watersheds and highlights some of the heroes making a difference for watersheds around world.

Author : Jon E. Lewis
Publisher : Robinson
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781780337357

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The Mammoth Book of Secrets of the SAS & Elite Forces by Jon E. Lewis Pdf

The SAS have earned their reputation as the world's toughest fighting unit, from the Falklands War to Kosovo, the Gulf War and other crises elsewhere. This is a step-by-step guide to the tactics of such elite units, with true accounts of the SAS's most famous exploits, as well as those of crack US Army units such as Delta Force and the Green Berets. It includes: how the SAS and other elite units came into being and how they work; combat techniques in hostile environments, from the Sahara to the Artic; evasion, capture and escape routes; personal skills, including navigation, combat tracking and hazard avoidance; and wilderness survival skills.

Author : Mary Oliver
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-11
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780698405622

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Upstream by Mary Oliver Pdf

One of O, The Oprah Magazine’s Ten Best Books of the Year The New York Times bestselling collection of essays from beloved poet, Mary Oliver. “There's hardly a page in my copy of Upstream that isn't folded down or underlined and scribbled on, so charged is Oliver's language . . .” —Maureen Corrigan, NPR’s Fresh Air “Uniting essays from Oliver’s previous books and elsewhere, this gem of a collection offers a compelling synthesis of the poet’s thoughts on the natural, spiritual and artistic worlds . . .” —The New York Times “In the beginning I was so young and such a stranger to myself I hardly existed. I had to go out into the world and see it and hear it and react to it, before I knew at all who I was, what I was, what I wanted to be.” So begins Upstream, a collection of essays in which revered poet Mary Oliver reflects on her willingness, as a young child and as an adult, to lose herself within the beauty and mysteries of both the natural world and the world of literature. Emphasizing the significance of her childhood “friend” Walt Whitman, through whose work she first understood that a poem is a temple, “a place to enter, and in which to feel,” and who encouraged her to vanish into the world of her writing, Oliver meditates on the forces that allowed her to create a life for herself out of work and love. As she writes, “I could not be a poet without the natural world. Someone else could. But not me. For me the door to the woods is the door to the temple.” Upstream follows Oliver as she contemplates the pleasure of artistic labor, her boundless curiosity for the flora and fauna that surround her, and the responsibility she has inherited from Shelley, Wordsworth, Emerson, Poe, and Frost, the great thinkers and writers of the past, to live thoughtfully, intelligently, and to observe with passion. Throughout this collection, Oliver positions not just herself upstream but us as well as she encourages us all to keep moving, to lose ourselves in the awe of the unknown, and to give power and time to the creative and whimsical urges that live within us.

Author : Béné, Christophe,Bakker, Deborah,Rodriguez, Monica Chavarro,Even, Brice,Melo, Jenny,Sonneveld, Anne
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Impacts of COVID-19 on people’s food security: Foundations for a more resilient food system by Béné, Christophe,Bakker, Deborah,Rodriguez, Monica Chavarro,Even, Brice,Melo, Jenny,Sonneveld, Anne Pdf

As part of the work implemented by CGIAR on COVID-19, the COVID-19 Research Hub Working Group 4 “Address food systems’ fragility and build back better” was tasked with implementing a global assessment of the impacts of COVID-19 on food systems and their actors, focusing specifically on the consequences that the pandemic had brought on the food security and nutrition of those who have been affected by the crisis. This includes formal and informal actors of the food supply chains (from producers to street vendors) as well as consumers, in both rural and urban environments. Building on this assessment, the task was then to draw on key principles of resilience in the context of humanitarian and food security crisis, to identify preliminary elements of a food system resilience research agenda.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Austronesian languages
ISBN : STANFORD:36105113265966

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Anthropologica by Anonim Pdf

Includes reports of meetings of the institute.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works. Subcommittee on Air and Water Pollution
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1388 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Air
ISBN : UCBK:C051770073

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Decision of the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency Regarding Suspension of the 1975 Auto Emission Standards by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works. Subcommittee on Air and Water Pollution Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Water
ISBN : UIUC:30112106910539

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Economic Impact of Federal Water Pollution Control Financing Requirements on Marginal Industries by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1640 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Legislative hearings
ISBN : UCAL:B3608743

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Hearings, Reports and Prints of the House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs Pdf

Author : AM Kadri
Publisher : Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers
Page : 1255 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-30
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789352709946

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IAPSM's Textbook of Community Medicine by AM Kadri Pdf

Author : Peter Mvula,Meya Kalindekafe,Paul Kishindo,Erling Berge,Friday Njaya
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9783643903983

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Towards Defragmenting the Management System of Lake Chilwa Basin, Malawi by Peter Mvula,Meya Kalindekafe,Paul Kishindo,Erling Berge,Friday Njaya Pdf

The book presents results of the Defragmenting African Resource Management (DARMA) Project covering the Lake Chilwa basin in Malawi. The central theme is that, in order to ensure resource base sustainability, research and management within the basin should adopt an ecosystems approach. Presently, research and management of the basin is sector-based, hence resource user conflicts are increasing. User demand for various resources is increasing rapidly, mainly due to population increase and lack of alternative economic activities, thereby presenting challenges to sustainable resource management. Specific areas of sectoral interconnections are highlighted and defragmentation options suggested. (Series: Defragmenting African Resource Management [DARMA] - Vol. 1)