Public Policy and Administrationhttp://hdl.handle.net/10211.3/2036082024-03-28T13:58:48Z2024-03-28T13:58:48ZIncreasing Awareness of Student Recreational FacilitiesOsaseri, Etiosa Emmanuelhttp://hdl.handle.net/10211.3/2101742019-05-17T18:54:24Z2019-05-17T00:00:00ZIncreasing Awareness of Student Recreational Facilities
Osaseri, Etiosa Emmanuel
Kern County currently leads California in obesity rankings. As a result, Kern County, along with its biggest city Bakersfield, has begun to take the necessary steps in order to promote healthier lifestyles. In particular, California State University, Bakersfield recently built a brand new recreational facility for its students and staff. The five-year-old Student Recreation Center (SRC) on campus was constructed to help promote healthier lifestyles. Moving forward, the challenge for the university is figuring out how to effectively promote recreational services in a way that is personable and relevant to each of its students. The following research will discuss the benefits of a having a student recreation center, as well as marketing theories that will help address low participation numbers from students. The goal of this project is to identity participation gaps of the SRC in order to provide recommendations that will help to increase student involvement.
2019-05-17T00:00:00Z2014 New Urbanization Plan: What progress has been made in Chinese cities towards implementing hukou reforms?Arellano, Gabrielhttp://hdl.handle.net/10211.3/2100562019-05-13T20:43:52Z2019-05-13T00:00:00Z2014 New Urbanization Plan: What progress has been made in Chinese cities towards implementing hukou reforms?
Arellano, Gabriel
During the 1950s, the Chinese Communist Party created the hukou system to segregate urban workers in the cities and the peasants in the countryside. One of the reasons the CCP did this was to help jumpstart their economy by developing their industrial sector. After the reform and opening policies in 1976, China’s rural populace was allowed to migrate to other provinces in China but could not receive public services due to their rural hukou status. Over forty years later, China’s hukou system has gone through various reforms but still continues to prevent rural migrant workers from receiving an urban hukou. This is due to the discriminatory and decentralized nature of their hukou policies.
This master’s thesis will attempt to track the implementation efforts made in China’s most recent attempt to reform their hukou system as outlined in the 2014 National New Urbanization Plan. The research questions state: What progress has been made in Chinese cities towards distributing urban hukous since the 2014 National New Urbanization Plan? And in what ways does the progress vary across different tiered cities?
To address the research questions, the researcher collected existing statistical government data from central, provincial, and local governments websites, and secondary literature was gathered from online newspaper websites, US-China business websites, scholarly online articles, and printed books. Hukou implementation efforts were measured in terms of 1) whether rural migrants were given a local hukou or residence permit from 2015-2018; and 2) whether the local government created people-oriented schemes to help rural migrants feel more socially inclusive. The four cities analyzed were Shenzhen, Chengdu, Shijiazhuang, and Luoyang.
Shenzhen’s hukou policies were elitist and discriminatory against rural migrant workers since their main focus is to continue developing their technological sector. Chengdu’s policies were more accommodating towards rural migrant workers since the RDA theory allowed Chengdu officials to develop a new type of hukou system to meet their needs. However, the distribution of urban hukous remains incremental in Chengdu. Shijiazhuang’s hukou policies have incrementally improved since 2015 to make it easier for rural migrant workers to receive an urban hukou. Nevertheless, not many rural migrant workers decided to obtain an urban hukou in Shijiazhuang due to their preference to go to more well-known Northeastern cities like Beijing and Tianjin. In comparison, thousands of rural migrant workers have received an urban hukou in Luoyang due to their local government’s lax policies and positive/dependent views of the population. To improve the current 2014 NUP, the study recommended: higher financial investment and resource allocation to second and third tier cities; protection of rural migrant worker’s land rights; greater coordination among central, provincial, and local governments; and an increase in accountability and transparency during the implementation process.
2019-05-13T00:00:00ZHow the Opioid Epidemic is Affecting Palliative Care PatientsGore, Melissa Annhttp://hdl.handle.net/10211.3/2100472019-05-13T16:30:19Z2019-05-13T00:00:00ZHow the Opioid Epidemic is Affecting Palliative Care Patients
Gore, Melissa Ann
Over the past decade the opioid epidemic has caused many deaths related to drug abuse and addiction in the United States. Palliative and end-of-life care patients rely of various types of opioids to help reduce pain. With new restrictions and regulations, access to prescription opioids has become much harder. The purpose for this study was to explore how the opioid epidemic is affecting palliative and end-of-life care patients. The literature revealed an increase over the last decade of prescription opioids. Multiple factors have aided in the epidemic and since then, regulations and laws have been put in place, making it harder to access prescription opioids. Patients find it difficult receiving proper pain management. Little research has been done on the opioid epidemic and the affect it may have on palliative and end-of-life care patients. Interviews were conducted with eight females from various levels of management in palliative and hospice care organizations. Data was analyzed to develop categories from the participants responses to answer the research question. The categories that were created include: access to prescriptions, alternative medication and treatments, destruction of medications, need for education of MDs, and cultural beliefs. Recommendations were based on the responses from the participants and the literature and included improving the education of physicians and healthcare organizations adoption of evidence-based practices by health care organizations.
2019-05-13T00:00:00ZBest Practices for Outpatient Diagnostic ImagingSekhon, Amanpreet Kaurhttp://hdl.handle.net/10211.3/2100462019-05-13T16:19:05Z2019-05-13T00:00:00ZBest Practices for Outpatient Diagnostic Imaging
Sekhon, Amanpreet Kaur
This paper detailed the variables that affect the reimbursement rates, and efficiency. The literature review expanded on the challenges faced by outpatient diagnostic imaging centers. The main themes that were identified in the scholarly literature were the rate of reduction in reimbursement and the rate of utilization. The measures focused on patient-centered care, marketing, and compliance. The paper constructs the finding of the research study based upon the systems theory. A content analysis was done in order to see what has been done in order to increase profitability, productivity, efficiency, and effectiveness of the outpatient diagnostic imaging centers and to evaluate the best practices. Analysis highlighted the reasons why there is limited research published in textual materials about best practices for diagnostic imaging centers. These reasons included the fact that data analytics are kept private, academic researchers might not be active in this area, outpatient diagnostic imaging services are location specific, and the market of diagnostic imaging is referral based. Analysis concluded that more research needs to be conducted to better understand and implement best practices for diagnostic imaging centers. Furthermore, the recommendations were made based on the content analysis.
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