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Australian Social Trends, Mar 2011 includes life expectancy trends, health outside the major cities, education and indigenous wellbeing, and health services: use and patient experience ABS (Mar 2011) The Future Course of Modern Government The next wave of public sector reforms will be formed around distributed systems, rather than centralised structures. The challenge for governments is to deal with complexity not by standardisation and simplification imposed from the centre, but by distributing complexity to the margins. IPAA (Mar 2011) Towards Mutual Recognition: Information Sharing Protocol For Human Services Agencies designed to minimise duplicate requests for reporting information for organisations funded by more than one DHS agency, and enable joint intervention when required...part of NSW Non-Government Organisation Red Tape Reduction plan NSW DADHC (Mar 2011) Priorities for a New Decade: Making (More) Social Programs Work (Better) proposes a comprehensive and bold re-thinking of how nonprofits are evaluated. .. Rejecting a rigid, one-size-fits-all model that focuses narrowly on determining a program's success or failure, ...proposes an approach that fully engages nonprofit practitioners as partners in evaluation efforts, reflects a deep understanding of local circumstances and constraints, and suggests guidelines for evaluation and scaling that actually support on-the-ground program quality and performance. US Public/PrivateVentures (Feb 2011) What Do We Mean by Scale? While there is great virtue in helping successful nonprofit organizations and effective programs expand, it is not the only way grantmakers can achieve impact — and it is often not the most effective way to do so....Growing impact doesn’t necessarily require organizational growth or the wholesale replication of programs— it may instead require expanding an idea or innovation, technology or skill, advocacy or policy change. US GEO (Feb 2011) Local Community Transport Services: the Transport Connections program there is little evidence to demonstrate the extent to which access to local transport has improved because of weaknesses in governance, oversight and monitoring. Vic Audit (Mar 2011) Taking Advantage of Disadvantage: Case studies of refugee and new migrant experiences in the communications market The Footscray Legal Community Centre (FCLC) together with ACCAN has released a damning report that documents the experiences of 16 new Australian migrants and finds that in many cases telcos are taking advantage of this already disadvantaged and highly vulnerable group. ACCAN (Mar 2011) Project Retrosight: Understanding the returns from cardiovascular and stroke research: The Policy Report explores the impacts arising from cardiovascular and stroke research funded 15-20 years ago and attempts to draw out aspects of the research, researcher or environment that are associated with high or low impact....will also be of interest to those involved in research and impact evaluation. US Rand (Mar 2011) National Health Reform Amendment (National Health Performance Authority) Bill 2011 briefing...This Bill has implications for the National Health and Hospitals Network Bill 2010 passed by the House (with Senate amendments) on 21 March 2011; the National Health and Hospitals Network Bill establishes the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality of Health Care (ACSQHC) as a permanent agency more Aus Parliament (Mar 2011) National Strategy for Quality Improvement in Health Care Report to Congress... a strategic plan for improving the delivery of health care services, achieving better patient outcomes, and improving the health of the U.S. population US Health (Mar 2011) How! Not How Much: Medicare Spending and Health Resource Allocation in Australia traces the evolution of Australian health policy and its consequences across half a century. The public hospital ‘crisis,’ a political nightmare for all Australian governments, is a legacy of the health policy upheavals of the 1970s and early 1980s, which culminated with the start of Medicare in 1984. Long waits for hospital treatment in Australia are caused by the structural funding inefficiencies at the heart of Medicare, which is a ‘reverse insurance’ system that provides ‘inverse care’ for Australians. Centre for Independent Studies (Mar 2011) Informing the development of a resource allocation framework in the German healthcare system Germany is looking to develop a national approach that allocates funds according to a unified framework, while taking account of regional characteristics. US Rand (Mar 2011) Implementing and sustaining change in the contemporary NHS it is critical that improvement programmes are implemented quickly, on a large-scale and assimilated and sustained in routine practice... Successful implementing organisations invest energy in programmes by providing visible executive support, allocate resources for programme leadership and facilitation, and build resilience to times of pressure and change – continuity of these factors is essential. UK King's Fund (Mar 2011) Safer Nursing Care Tool (SNCT) –Linking Staffing to Quality Outcomes Senior nurses have developed a simple way of assessing the safe number of nurses needed for a ward, which health workforce experts say can be used to argue against post cutting...Nursing teams can use the Safer Nursing Care Tool to work out safe staffing on hospital wards by putting in information about patients’ conditions...more UK NHS (Mar 2011) Identification of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in Australian general practice Practices need to correctly and consistently record the Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander status of all patients. RACGP (Mar 2011) | |
Impact of changes in length of stay on the demand for residential care services in England highlight the significant level of costs faced by self-payers with prolonged stays in residential care. Finding mechanisms for insuring individuals against such costs is now a policy priority across the political spectrum., also Length of stay in care homes Establishing average length of stay is challenging because it requires data about individual residents over a potentially long period (some residents can live for 20 or more years in a care home). UK PSSRU (Jan 2011) Enhancing Use of Clinical Preventive Services Among Older Adults: Closing the Gap calls attention to the use of potentially lifesaving preventive services by our nation’s growing population of adults aged 65 years and older. US CDC (Mar 2011) Clinical Practice guidelines for depression and related disorders - anxiety, bipolar disorder and puerperal psychosis - in the perinatal period. and Clinical Practice Guidelines: Depression in Adolescents and Young Adults BeyondBlue (mar 2011) Drug Courts Are Not the Answer: Toward a Health-Centered Approach to Drug Use drug courts don’t reduce incarceration, don’t save money, and don’t improve public safety when compared to the wholly punitive model they seek to replace. Worse, drug courts have made the criminal justice system more punitive toward addiction – not less. The report calls for expanding demonstrated health approaches, including harm reduction and drug treatment, and working toward the removal of criminal penalties for drug use. more Drug courts can needlessly widen the net of criminal justice involvement, and cannot replace the need for improved treatment services in the community. US DPA (Mar 2011) Preliminary assessment of economic impacts of alcohol pricing policy options in the UK research into three particular policies — minimum pricing, ban on below-cost sales, and taxation. US Rand (Mar 2011) Supporting partnerships to reduce alcohol harm: key findings, recommendations and case studies from the Alcohol Harm Reduction National Support Team UK Health (Mar 2011) Cost effectiveness report of public health interventions to prevent obesity includes A Systematic Review of the Effectiveness of 16 Obesity Prevention Interventions NZ Vic Uni Wellington (Mar 2011) Immunisation Audience Research in most cases, parents/caregivers who do not fully immunise their children have not actively opted not to immunise. Rather, for a variety of circumstances or reasons they have not fully immunised their child. NZ health (mar 2011) UK influenza pandemic preparedness strategy 2011: strategy for consultation, and Review of the evidence base underpinning the UK influenza pandemic preparedness strategy includes vaccination, communication, demographic factors, impact of school closures UK Health (Mar 2011) Emergency Preparedness and Response Planning for Child Care children have unique needs in emergency situations and are among our most vulnerable populations. In the event of a major disaster it is critical to ensure children in child care centers and family child care homes are safe and secure and reunited with their parents. In addition, after a disaster, re-opening and rebuilding child care is a key element to recovery efforts and restoring the economic health of communities. (PDF version).. more US ACF (Mar 2011) National Disability Strategy launched on 18 March FaHCSIA (Mar 2011) The Foster Carers’ Charter sets out clear principles on how foster carers should be treated, recognises their invaluable work and aims to encourage more people to sign up to be foster carers. UK Education (Mar 2011) The Fleecing of Foster Children: How We Confiscate Their Assets and Undermine Their Financial Security identifies and discusses federal and state policies and practices that actually impede the ability of youth to achieve financial stability after leaving foster care US Child Advocacy Institute (Mar 2011) Prospectus for intensive cost effective and evidence based interventions for looked after children and children on the edge of care or custody inviting bids from local authorities and their partners for financial and other support to implement a range of intensive, cost effective and evidence-based interventions for looked after children and children on the edge of care or custody who have complex and challenging behaviours which can result in out of home placements or placement breakdown. UK Education (Mar 2011) | |
A Pathway of Care for Vulnerable Families (0-3) seeks to promote a shift from professional intervention for children and families only when a crisis happens to a position where prevention and early intervention are the norm. Scotland (Mar 2011) At risk youth: a transitory state? rather than counting the numbers of young people at risk, we should instead turn our attention to young people who remain detached from work, study or meaningful activities for extended periods. Aus Longitudinal Surveys of Aus Youth (Mar 2011) Teenage Kicks - The Value of Sport in Tackling Youth Crime Sports projects and mentoring are highly effective when it comes to tackling youth crime and antisocial behaviour and can save the government money UK Laureus (Mar 2011) A Worksite Parenting Program That Works Summarizes research on Talking Parents, Healthy Teens, a worksite-based parenting program that improves communication between parents and their adolescents on sexual health. US Rand (mar 2011) Allegations against Residential Workers: Guidance on How Agencies Should Respond Keeping children safe and treating residential workers fairly, without creating 'hands off', sterile care environments is one of the biggest challenges facing care providers today. Scotland (Mar 2011) Understanding the psychology of gang violence •What is a gang? •What factors motivate individuals to join a street gang? •What factors maintain gang membership in prison and the community? UK Justice (Mar 2011) 2009 Worst Case Housing Needs of People with Disabilities People with disabilities face additional burdens to finding safe and affordable housing for several reasons, such as being subjected to housing discrimination and encountering limited availability of accessible housing units. US HUD (Mar 2011) Pathways and choice in a diversifying social housing system seeks to provide a better understanding of how access to social housing and mobility within the Australian social housing system are experienced by tenants, in a time of significant changes to the sector. AHURI (Mar 2011) Advice on dealing with squatters in your home UK advice aimed at homeowners and to make them aware of their rights where their property has been unlawfully occupied. UK Communities (Mar 2011) Eviction of Tenants in the Social Rented Sector: Protection of Tenants with Rent Arrears Scottish Government Response to the Consultation...to consider whether tenants in the social rented sector facing eviction for rent arrears needed extra protection. Scotland (Mar 2011) Making the Most of the Private Rented Housing Sector recommends that the Welsh Government researches the potential effectiveness and feasibility of a mandatory licensing or registration scheme for all managers of private rented sector accommodation (including landlords) UK Wales (Feb 2011) Homelessness Services Country overviews Canada, US, Australia, Europe US NAEH (Mar 2011) Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing for Survivors of Domestic Violence Increasingly domestic violence providers have included two new strategies in their toolbox to serve survivors: homelessness prevention and rapid re-housing. US NAEH (Mar 2011) Improving the Safety of Homeless Young People with Mobile Phones: Values, Form and Function Homeless young people described occurrences of harassment and violence, from police officers and other community members, as well as other homeless people. Documenting such events can empower young people to seek redress and, over time, may deter future harassment. US Uni Washington (Mar 2011) |
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