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Partnership marketing (especially with commercial partners) is a relatively new concept in the realm of United Kingdom public health care but one that can offer a number of benefits especially when the project in question has a limited budget.

"Drawing on the Pakistan Earthquake Reconstruction and Recovery Project (PERRP), this volume explores the sociocultural side of post-disaster infrastructure reconstruction. As the latter is often fraught with delays and even abandonment-one cause being ineffective interactions between construction and local people-PERRP used anthropological and participatory approaches. Along with strong construction management, such approaches led to the rebuilding being completed on time. As disasters are increasing in number and intensity, so too will be the need for reconstruction, for which PERRP has lessons to offer"--

Little has been written on the types of public health and wider academic research published about the analysis and evaluation of websites. This paper investigates the subject with the aim of highlighting the gaps and opportunities for future research. In so doing, it not only informs academics of potential research areas, it also provides valuable information for undergraduate and masters dissertation students, and their supervisors, on an important source of accessible data. We undertook a systematic search of published research identifying articles from 2000 to 2017. Articles were eligible for inclusion if their title contained the words website* and analysis, or website* and evaluation. A second, more detailed investigation was conducted on articles in the same sample for 2015-2017. A third round of investigation reviewed 10 articles in more depth, based on those from the highest-ranking journals. We demonstrate that research specifically about websites has increased significantly since the year 2000. Contrary to recent social media-focused research, in our research, health-related articles were found to be the largest group in the field. Research about websites focused on issues such as information accuracy and corporate social responsibility. Other health promotion and public health areas of international concern, such as 'sustainable development goals', were less prominent. There was little scrutiny of national or local government websites. It is recommended that future research includes a focus on recognised international health promotion and sustainable development priorities.

This paper analyses how the UK national press has covered local decision-making on options for the integration of health and social care. In England, as part of a major restructuring of health services, the UK government has devolved significant decisions on reorganising services to local areas. This increasing 'localism' in healthcare has been a global trend, albeit an uneven one. The article assesses the insights of Amitai Etzioni and others, as applied to national newspaper coverage of local decisions. It finds Etzioni's analysis to be not fully supported. Following other journalism research on the NHS, we show that contentious points of wider public interest were little reported on, such as international corporate influence and the potential for fragmentation across a national health service.

This paper considers links between public health, elected representatives — primarily councillors — and the built environment. It focuses on councillors and canvassers gathering information about local environments from dialogue with constituents and from 'walkabouts' (transect walks) in local communities, as a stage in improving how and where we live. The walking routes considered range from observational walks and tours of an area through to election-canvassing routes. The experiences of councillors and canvassers, while some steps removed from architects and planners' practice, are a valid source of contextual information. The example of England is used but with reference, in the literature review section, to public health tools employed globally.

This paper investigates the access that health professionals, researchers, journalists and, ultimately, the public have to review spending in the English National Health Service (NHS). The ability of news organisations to inform debate and decision-making, particularly when hospitals face financial constraints, relies on accessible data. Theorists such as Patrick Dunleavy have suggested that developments in information communications technology induce a dialectical movement, involving changing governance and increasing transparency. Drawing on this premise, the article reviews the extent to which the NHS has moved from a 'freedom of information regime' to one of 'full open-book governance'. Its methodology includes a combination of documentary and freedom of information data analysis, as well as in-depth interviews with directors of commissioning and provider services and national agencies. It argues that, while increased dissemination of information might be consistent with the government's digital agenda, the NHS's quasi-market operation and its relationship to the Freedom of Information Act mean that significant data remains inaccessible or costly to obtain.