In this update:

diabetes prevalence wind farms foodborne illness cost E. coli outbreak Canadian physicians: supply&distribution State of World's Midwifery 2011 UK drug policy access to psychological services

quality of residential aged care collaboration b/t local health & local govt agencies integration across housing, health and social care homeless services collection transforming UK housing sector socially sustainable housing

Australian Social Trends World Report on Disability safer social networking children's exposure to domestic violence child protection & parental mental health sex education in secondary schools preventing welfare fraud

	Diabetes prevalence in Australia. Detailed estimates for 2007–08  This report presents the most up-to-date estimates of the number of people with diagnosed diabetes in Australia based on self-reports to the Australian Bureau of Statistics’ 2007–08 National Health Survey. AIHW (June 2011) The social and economic impact of rural wind farms   On 27 October 2010, the Senate referred the following matter to the Committee for inquiry and report by 30 April 2011: The social and economic impacts of rural wind farms, and in particular: (a) any adverse health effects for people living in close proximity to wind farms; (b) concerns over the excessive noise and vibrations emitted by wind farms, which are in close proximity to people’s homes; (c) the impact of rural wind farms on property values, employment opportunities and farm income; (d) the interface between Commonwealth, state and local planning laws as they pertain to wind farms. Senate Community Affairs References Committee (June 2011) Foodborne Illness Cost Calculator  provides policymakers and the general public with information on the assumptions behind foodborne illness cost estimates—describes the assumptions and calculations behind the ERS cost estimates for five foodborne pathogens: Salmonella, shiga-toxin producing E. coli O157, non-O157 shiga-toxin producing E. coli, Listeria, and Campylobacter. USDA,  Economic Research Service (June 2011) E. coli O104: H4 sequence from the 2011 outbreak   BGI releases the complete map of the Germany E. coli O104 genome   Building upon previous efforts producing a high-quality de novo genome assembliesof deadly 2011 E.coliO104:H4 outbreak strain, the BGI and their collaborators at the University Medical Centre Hamburg-Eppendorf have now released the first complete map of the genome and plasmids without any assembly gaps. BGI (formerly Beijing Genomics Institute) Supply, Distribution and Migration of Canadian Physicians  provides data tables on the number of physicians by province and territory, specialty, age group, gender, place of and years since medical-school graduation. It also provides physician- to-population ratios by province and territory, gender and specialty, as well as data on the inter-jurisdictional and international migration of physicians. Canada CIHI (Dec 2010) The State of World's Midwifery 2011: Delivering Health, Saving Lives   The first State of the World's Midwifery report confirms the critical role midwives play in improving maternal and newborn health and survival. It highlights the shortage of skilled midwives in many low-income countries, stressing the need to train and deploy more midwives in all parts of a country - especially remote and rural areas. UN Population Fund (June 2011) Taking Drugs Seriously: A Demos and UK Drug Policy Commission report on legal highs   It is 40 years since the Misuse of Drugs Act became law, and the ‘drug problem’ is no nearer being solved. Taking Drugs Seriously argues that it is time for a new approach to policy making, legislation and debate on drugs issues, focusing on developing consensus while building better evidence about what works.  A background paper, which reviewed international experiences of regulating new psychoactive substances, was prepared for this project by Professor Peter Reuter of the University of Maryland, and published by UKDPC - Options for regulating new psychoactive drugs: a review of recent experiences UK Drug Policy Commission / Demos (May 2011) Administration of the Access to Allied Psychological Services Program - Department of Health and Ageing    ATAPS is at a point of transition, with policy and administrative challenges arising from: a substantial increase in program funding announced in the 2011–12 Budget; the refocusing and targeting of the program following a review released in early 2010; the proposed transfer of responsibility for day-to-day administration from Divisions of General Practice to Medicare Locals; and the implications of broader reforms to the health care system in Australia. ANAO (June 2011)
	Monitoring and Compliance Arrangements Supporting Quality of Care in Residential Aged Care Homes - Department of Health and Ageing Aged Care Standards and Accreditation Agency Ltd   The ANAO’s assessment considered whether: a sector-wide compliance strategy was in place and aligned with effective monitoring and compliance activities at the operational level; there was a clear articulation of the separate but complementary roles; and responsibilities of DoHA and the Accreditation Agency; and performance information gathered by both agencies to support public reporting and business improvements was useful and enabled comparison of performance over time. ANAO (June 2011) Collaboration between local health and local government agencies for health improvement (Review)   Although agencies appear enthusiastic about inter-agency collaboration, methodological flaws in the primary studies and incomplete implementation of initiatives have prevented the development of a strong evidence base. If these flaws are addressed in future studies (for example by providing greater detail on the implementation of programs, using more robust designs, with integrated process evaluations and measurement of health outcomes) it could provide a better understanding of what might work and why. UK Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (May 2011) Localism: delivering integration across housing, health and care. A Policy and Practice report   a series of roundtables were conducted across the country, with professionals across the three sectors to look at how barriers to integrated working can be addressed . UK Chartered Institute of Housing (June 2011) Specialist Homelessness Services collection   A new collection to assist in measuring homelessness in Australia has been launched by the AIHW.   See Media release AIHW June (2011) Tomorrow’s world today: Transforming the housing sector   The project explored the transformational processes that are needed to enable housing organisations to navigate and respond to the current and future operating environments by addressing the following questions: what changes in the areas of governance, set up (structure); financial models (finance); and knowledge, skills and capacities (people) are needed to support this? .... what might the ‘successful’ housing organisation look like in 2020? UK Chartered Institute of Housing (June 2011) Housing ACT: assessment of an application for priority housing   Many ACT residents in need of priority public housing are missing out due to procedural shortcomings within Housing ACT (now part of the new Community Services Directorate).   Conclusions included - Housing ACT should review its policies and procedures for re-assessing applications, and for triaging applications for Priority housing. ACT Ombudsman (June 2011) Investigative Panel on a socially sustainable housing system for Australia The project drew together a panel of experts from Australia and the UK to consider how a more socially sustainable housing system could be achieved in Australia. The panel observed that the current Australian housing system was poorly placed to deal with immediate and longer-term challenges. They noted that affordability was declining and housing supply was constrained. Meanwhile, the traditional public housing model and the private rental sector were failing to deliver adequate low-rent housing. AHURI in collaboration with Joseph Rowntree Foundation (June 2011)
	Australian Social Trends June 2011   Australian Social Trends draws on a wide range of data, sourced both from ABS and other agencies, to present a picture of Australian society. ABS (June 2011) World Report on Disability   provides evidence to facilitate implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). It documents the circumstances of persons with disabilities across the world and explores measures to promote their social participation, ranging from health and rehabilitation to education and employment. WHO / World Bank (June 2011) Implementation of the Safer Social Networking Principles for the EU   This report is part of the European Commission`s commitment to support the industry self-regulatory initiative - the “Safer Social Networking Principles” (from now on referred to as (“the Principles”) signed by 21 social networking companies to date. The report summarizes the findings of the 2nd assessment (Phase A) where 14 social networking websites (SNS) were tested. The services tested in this Phase were: Arto, Bebo, Facebook, Giovani, Hyves, IRC-Galleria, Myspace, Nasza-Klasa, Netlog, One, Rate, SchuelerVZ (Vznet Netzwerke), Tuenti and Zap. European Commission (May 2011) Children’s exposure to domestic violence in Australia  Children's 'witnessing' domestic violence has been increasingly recognised as a form of child abuse, both in Australia and internationally. Psychological and behavioural impacts, health and socioeconomic impacts, and the link to the intergenerational transmission of violence and re-victimisation are described, as are current legislative and policy initiatives. AIC (June 2011) Keeping the child in mind: child protection practice and parental mental health   The authors state that there have been few studies that examine the prevalence of parental mental health disorders in child protection matters, including the types of mental health disorders associated with protective concerns for children. Similarly, little is known about how child protection workers identify parental mental health disorders, what they classify as such, and how this impacts upon their decision-making. This project was conducted in response to this gap in knowledge. It seeks to identify the numbers of substantiated child abuse and neglect cases in South Australia where parental mental health difficulties have been identified as a significant risk factor. SA Families and Communities (June 2011) Sexuality education in Australian secondary schools 2010. Results of the 1st National Survey of Australian Secondary Teachers of Sexuality Education   This study gathered representative information about the workforce of sexuality educators, the content and practices of teaching sexuality education and the difficulties teachers experience in this field. Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society (ARCSHS), Latrobe University (Apr 2011) Detecting and preventing welfare fraud   This paper examines anti-fraud measures currently operating in Australia’s welfare system, administered by the government agency, Centrelink. Using official data, an examination is made of the operations and rationales of different strategies and their impacts, including estimated savings. AIC (June 2011)