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Report on Government Services 2011 including data on Ambulance events, Fire events, Public hospitals, Primary and community health, Mental health, Aged care services, Services for people with disability, Child protection and out-of-home care services, Juvenile justice services, Community housing, Homelessness services, Government services and Indigenous people ... Productivity Comm (Jan 2011) Scoping study for a national not-for-profit regulator There are approximately 600,000 entities in the NFP sector, of which it is estimated that around 400,000 may access Commonwealth tax concessions...Effective regulation should improve the confidence that government agencies can have in the NFP sector, particularly where agencies provide grants and contracts to NFPs. This would reduce the need for agencies to apply their own separate regulatory framework in order to ensure their programs are delivered appropriately. Aus Treasury (Jan 2010) Route map for sustainable health This Route Map built on the actions described in the NHS Carbon Reduction Strategy It identifies the areas that require progress in order to save money and resources, improve health and make changes future proof. UK NHS (Jan 2011) Enabling Personalized Medicine through Health Information Technology: Advancing the Integration of Information policies creating incentives for the adoption of health information technology should ensure that the invested infrastructure is one that supports new-care paradigms as opposed to automating yesterday’s health care practices....Health care is shifting from a hierarchical delivery system to one that features greater transparency, collaboration, and patient involvement. US Brookings (Jan 2011) Biomedicine and Health Innovation - Synthesis Report reference and resource to those governments, member or non-member, interested in fostering health innovation and improving the economic and health impacts of their biomedical research sector...Collaborations, public-private partnerships, consortia, innovation networks, brokerage facilities, prizes, and data sharing/exchange platforms are increasingly used to access dispersed sources of data, information, know-how, materials, compounds, software, methodologies, expertise, and patented innovations. OECD (Jan 2010) Why is it difficult to implement e-health initiatives? A qualitative study aimed to explore and understand the experiences of implementers — the senior managers and other staff charged with implementing e-health initiatives and their assessment of factors which promote or inhibit the successful implementation, embedding, and integration of ehealth initiatives. UK Implementation Studies (Jan 2011) How health systems make available information on service providers reviews and discusses information systems reporting on the quality or performance of providers of healthcare ('quality information systems') in seven countries: Denmark, England, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden and the United States.... identifies a number of considerations for the design of successful quality information systems, such as the clear definition of objectives, ensuring users' accessibility and stakeholder involvement, as well as the need to provide valid, reliable and consistent data. US Rand (Feb 2011) Detection and management of outliers: guidance prepared by National Clinical Audit Advisory Group sets out for NHS provider organisations the actions they need to take if audit data indicates that their results are out of line compared to other providers. UK Health (Feb 2011) Framework for assessing, improving and enhancing health service planning identifies a set of criteria within three broad themes: "Vision", "Governance" and "Intelligence", which were then tested empirically through an in-depth analysis of four countries, using a case study approach: Germany, Austria, Canada (Ontario) and New Zealand. US Rand (2010) Evidence-informed options for hospital funding asks are hospital funding mechanisms in Canada designed to provide efficient care? Can CHSRF (Nov 2010) | |
No Health without Mental Health: a cross-Government mental health outcomes strategy for people of all ages the interconnections between mental health, housing, employment, and the criminal justice system. UK Health (Feb 2011) Pathways in Aged Care: program use after assessment shows that for many people, their first contact with the aged care system is through an Aged Care Assessment Team (ACAT) assessment. AIHW (Feb 2010) Review of Indigenous male health updated ...Indigenous men have the poorest health of any group in Australia. Health Infonet (Jan 2011) Chronic Care for Aboriginal People Model of Care the aim is to bring to light the need to move from a traditional approach in health care to a model that considers Aboriginal people have very different needs to improve their health. NSW Health (2010) Seniors and the Health Care System: What Is the Impact of Multiple Chronic Conditions? The number of health care services seniors use is determined more by the number of chronic conditions they have than by their age,..Seniors with three or more chronic conditions reported using three times as many health care services as Canadians age 65 and older with no chronic conditions. Can CIHI (Jan 2010) Patient Safety: From Learning to Action IV Fourth Queensland Health Report on Clinical Incidents and Sentinel Events in the Queensland Public Health System 2008/09 Qld health (Jan 2011) Economic impacts of alcohol pricing policy options in the UK research into three particular policies — minimum pricing, ban on below-cost sales, and taxation... evidence on the links between alcohol prices and consumption and the economic impacts of each policy option, the statistical data describing the market for alcohol and findings from interviews with key stakeholders. US Rand (Jan 2011) Labelling Logic - the Final Report of the Review of Food Labelling Law and Policy (chair :Neal Blewett) calls for a centralised body for, and source of, food labelling information for consumers, industry and government, with roles in administration, advice and monitoring. (Jan 2011) The decontamination of buildings, infrastructure and open environment exposed to Chemical, Biological, Radiological or Nuclear materials produced for those in the public and private sector responsible for contingency planning. also Generic Risk Assessment : Incidents involving Radiation UK Cabinet (Jan 2011) Violence against people with cognitive impairments Report from the Advocacy/Guardianship program at the Office of the Public Advocate on violence and sexual assault against people with disability, also Government response Vic OPA (Jan 2011) Sexual assault laws in Australia It is well established that sexual assault is one of the most - if not the most - difficult offences to successfully prosecute (i.e. to obtain a conviction); approximately 85% of sexual assaults never come to the attention of the criminal justice system ...a compilation of the current legislation for each state and territory pertaining to sexual assault. ACSSA (Feb 2011) | |
The Munro Review of Child Protection: Interim Report, The Child’s Journey second report of the UK independent child protection review UK Review (Feb 2010) 'Working together to keep children and young people safe' New Zealand resource for teachers, health professionals, social service providers, or anyone working with families and children. It helps people recognise when families are vulnerable and how they can help, through to spotting the signs of abuse, who to talk to, how to report their concerns, and what happens when a report of concern comes through to Child, Youth and Family. NZ CYF (Dec 2010) Capital change: a process evaluation of Washington, DC's secure juvenile placement reform A growing body of research has persuaded most experts and many practitioners that punitive responses to juvenile offenders—particularly those placed in secure facilities—yield poor results for the youth involved and for public safety...recommendations: Invest more time and resources in building relationships with facility staff; Train staff more regularly, especially in specific techniques for working with youth US Vera (Jan 2011) Improving the Effectiveness of Juvenile Justice Programs: A New Perspective on Evidence-Based Practice presents a tool that can be used to measure the effectiveness of a variety of existing juvenile justice programs and provide recommendations on how to improve them. US Georgetown CJJR (Dec 2010) The Impact of Placing Adolescent Males into Foster Care on their Education, Income Assistance and Incarcerations focuses on estimating the impact of placing 16 to 18 year old male youth into care on their rates of high school graduation, and post-majority income assistance receipt and incarceration...results suggest that it is not enough to ask whether more or fewer children should be taken into care; rather, which children are, and how they are, taken into care matter for long-term outcomes. Can IZA (Jan 2011) Evaluating Labour Market Effects of Wage Subsidies for the Disabled: The Danish Flexjob Scheme evaluates the employment and disability exit effects of a wage subsidy program for the disabled in a setting characterized by universal health insurance and little employment protection Denmark SFI (Dec 2010) Housing and Health UK briefing looks at the impact of poor housing on health and examines the implications for housing policy...Poor housing conditions have a detrimental impact on health, costing the NHS at least £600 million per year. UK Parliament Research (Jan 2010) Housing Markets and Structural Policies in OECD Countries compares a number of housing policies such as housing taxation, land use and rental regulations and social housing policies for OECD countries ...One main finding is that badly-designed policies can have substantial negative effects on the economy, for instance by increasing the level and volatility of real house prices and preventing people from moving easily to follow employment opportunities, also Housing and the Economy: Policies for Renovation OECD (Jan 2011) Implementing self-financing for council housing Self-financing will put all UK local authority landlords in the position where they can support their own stock from their own income...Valuations will be based on assumptions about each local authority’s income and need to spend over 30 years. Assumptions about income will follow from the Government’s social rent policy. UK Communities (Feb 2011) Living through change in challenging neighbourhoods examining the perceptions and experiences of residents from six lower-income neighbourhoods in Britain. UK Joseph Rowntree (Feb 2010) |
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