Stuart Grain and Philip Leverton
Considers a number of issues relating to the problem of promotingan ethos of research among the property management profession. Discussesthe meaning and types of research. Argues…
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Considers a number of issues relating to the problem of promoting an ethos of research among the property management profession. Discusses the meaning and types of research. Argues for a more positive approach to convincing the profession as a whole of the worth of research.
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S. Gronow and P. Leverton
Considers the change in the professional practice of landedproperty management, in the light of increased involvement in the fieldby management consultants, accountants and…
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Considers the change in the professional practice of landed property management, in the light of increased involvement in the field by management consultants, accountants and financial institutions. Reviews the role and importance of academic estate managers in benefiting both students and the profession as a whole. Concludes that while consultancy and further qualifications can be used for personal development, it is essential that academic institutions offer a contractual development programme if gifted managers are not to be lost.
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Increasing attention has been given over the last decade to the topic of health care information for patients and the public. This is called consumer health information and it…
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Increasing attention has been given over the last decade to the topic of health care information for patients and the public. This is called consumer health information and it encompasses information about health and illness at a lay level; information about health care services available from the statutory and voluntary sectors; and information about choices in treatment and care. This is not a uniquely modern phenomenon. A study of self care and early lay medical publishing shows a robust and continuing tradition of people looking after themselves, without recourse to health professionals and with advice from various vernacular sources. However it is only since the 1970s that libraries and information services have developed to provide ready access for the public to consumer health information. The first consumer health information (CHI) services were established in the United States. By the late 1970s the first uk services had been established in Stevenage and Southampton. For most of the 1980s these were the only well developed CHI services in the UK library world, with most health information reaching consumers through a variety of non‐library advice agencies. The last two or three years have seen a flowering of CHI services, with the encouragement of official policies on consumer choice and quality assurance. There have been advances in the bibliographic control of the subject with the availability of new CHI databases. This emerging information specialism is now reaching maturity with a new concern with quality of service.