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Human development report 2010 a composite national measure of health, education and income for 169 countries—shows Norway, Australia and New Zealand leading the world in HDI achievement with Niger, Democratic Republic of the Congo and Zimbabwe at the bottom of the annual rankings. UN (Nov 2010) Making sustainability add up’ measuring, reporting, and managing the social and environmental impacts of doing business – is now a strategic priority for foundation trusts UK NHS (Nov 2010) Review of Skilled Occupation List for General Migration purposes seeking stakeholder input and evidence to help inform the composition of the SOL. Skills Australia (Nov 2010) Why Do Evaluations of eHealth Programs Fail? An Alternative Set of Guiding Principles offers an alternative set of guiding principles for eHealth evaluation based on traditions that view evaluation as social practice rather than as scientific testing, and illustrates these with the example of England's controversial Summary Care Record program. PLoS (Nov 2010) Communication and Health Literacy Survey online survey for Tasmanians who have used DHHS services or seen written information from DHHS over the past year...around 59% of Australian adults don’t have enough knowledge and skills to understand and use general information about their health and wellbeing Tas DHHS (Nov 2010) Communicating Difference: Understanding Communications Consumers from Non English Speaking Backgrounds One in four telecommunications consumers in Australia is from a Non English Speaking Background (NESB)...access to telecommunications is a human right and important for social inclusion; Aus Communications Consumer Action (Nov 2010) Supporting older people from culturally & linguistically diverse backgrounds Older people in Australia who are from non-English speaking backgrounds make up a significant and growing proportion of the older population, and in some areas, comprise the majority of users of community care services. The Benevolent Society (Nov 2010) Protection of Vulnerable Adults (POVA) scheme: record retention and disposal policy provides for the systematic review, retention and destruction of personal information contained in POVA case files held by the Secretary of State after they have been closed. UK Health (Nov 2010) Deaths Australia 2009 Death rates are the lowest on record and life expectancy continues to increase ABS (Nov 2010) Protecting Scotland's NHS: A Decade of Counter Fraud Activities CFS has become an intelligence-led organisation, designing an in-house range of data mining tools to allow more accurate targeting of anti-fraud investigations Scotland (Nov 2010) The Work-Around Culture: Unintended Consequences of Organizational Heroes "Work-around cultures" are pervasive in health care. Employees tend to work around obstacles, often feeling like a hero in the process, without solving the underlying problems. ... The solution is an improvement-oriented culture built on manager responsiveness and problem-solving efficacy...Common managerial missteps that thwart achievement of an improvement-oriented culture are: 1.Underestimating the cumulative costs of problems. 2. Selecting only big problems for resolution. In healthcare, 3.Encouraging reporting of problems when there’s low capability to solve them. US Harvard (Nov 2010) Why Junior Doctors Don’t Want to Become General Practitioners increasing procedural work or academic opportunities for GPs could have a similar effect as increasing earnings by $50,000, and increase the number of doctors choosing to train as GPs by between 212 and 376 per year. Melbourne Institute (Oct 2010) | |
Nothing ventured, nothing gained: risk guidance for people with dementia best practice in assessing, managing and enabling risk for people living with dementia UK Health (Nov 2010) Review of Services for People Living with HIV in New Zealand A main and consistently cited gap in service provision... relates to mental health coverage, particularly for those with longer‐term psychiatric and psychological issues. NZ Health (Nov 2010) Walk Together, Learn Together, Work Together: A practical guide for the training of Aboriginal Mental Health Professionals in NSW NSW Health has allocated specific funding for employing, training and educating additional Aboriginal Mental Health Workers within mental health services. also: Aboriginal mental health workers forum NSW Health (Oct 2010) Consultation Paper for the review of the 2003 Ministerial Policy Guideline Food Safety Management in Australia: Food Safety Programs The total cost of foodborne illness in Australia is estimated at $1.25 billion per year Aus health (Oct 2010) Proposed Cigarette Product Warning Labels US FDA is proposing to modify the required warnings that appear on cigarette packages and in cigarette advertisements. These new required warnings would consist of nine new textual warning statements accompanied by color graphics depicting the negative health consequences of smoking. US FDA (Nov 2010) Increasing access to health workers in remote and rural areas through improved retention Globally, approximately one half of the population lives in rural areas, but less than 38% of the nurses and less than 25% of the physicians work there...proposes sixteen evidence-based recommendations on how to improve the recruitment and retention of health workers in underserved areas. WHO (Nov 2010) National Commission on Children and Disasters 2010 Report to the President and Congress calls for the development of a national strategy for children in disasters to ensure children are protected before, during and after an emergency. Children are 25 percent of our nation’s population but they are neglected when it comes to disaster management. also: A National Report Card on Protecting Children During Disasters US NCCD (Oct 2010) Assessing and responding to parenting support needs in disadvantaged families: Lessons from parent education programs unless a program meets a parent's needs and is appropriate to their circumstances, the potential benefits of a parenting program could be lost. Key elements of three effective Australian parent education programs provide an insight into the critical factors that need to be considered in order for practitioners to assess and respond to the parenting support needs of parents in disadvantaged families. AIFS (Nov 2010) Before care: A report on children's views on entering care by the Children's Rights Director for England. UK Ofsted (Nov 2010) Ensuring Youth Transitioning from Foster Care are Connected by 25: .lessons for funders, policymakers, and program leaders that can inform the continued development of supports and services that help young people in or aging out of foster care achieve successful outcomes, also An Assessment of Resources to Support Transitioning Youth and Guide to Mapping Community Assets for Transitioning Youth Housing; Self Care & Health; Education; Life Skills; Transportation; Identity; Permanence; Community, Culture & Social Life; Job & Career US Finance Project (May 2010) Sharing data across youth sharing agencies: Access to data allows youth-serving organizations to track individual youth across services received from various human service agencies, spot trends, and meet funders’ accountability requirements US Finance Project (Aug 2010) Biometric identification systems in schools: Guidance for education authorities, learning establishments and schools Scotland (Nov 2010) | |
Family Violence - A National Legal Response Australian Law Reform Commission and Family Law Amendment (Family Violence) Bill 2010 - Exposure Draft ...amend the Family Law Act to strengthen the role of family courts, advisers and parents in preventing harm to children while continuing to support the concept of shared parental responsibility and shared care where these are safe. Aus Attorney General (Nov 2010) Inquiry into the Child Protection System in the Northern Territory 2010A focus on prevention, collaboration, greater Aboriginal involvement and control of service delivery, and strengthening families and systems are at the heart of recommendations NT (Oct 2010) Measuring sexual offender recidivism Strategies to assist in increasing the reliability of recidivism rates of sexual offenders include researchers drawing on a range of unofficial data sources, such as the self-reported data of offenders. AIFS (Nov 2010) Analysis of costs and benefits of specialised intellectual disability health services an economic appraisal of the range of options presented in the draft Service Framework to improve health care of people with intellectual disabilities NSW Health (Oct 2010) Evaluation of the Self Directed Support Pilot for Children and Young Adults with a Physical Disability Evaluation Plan NSW SPRC (Oct 2010) A fair start: A personalised pathway for disabled children and their families proposes that local and national leaders work with families and communities to create a Personalised Pathway for the care, support and education of disabled children and their families, that will enable children with the most significant disadvantages to get a fair start in life. UK HSMC (Oct 2010) Destination unknown: examines the reforms to UK welfare benefits announced in the Emergency Budget and concludes that the impact on disabled people has not been fully considered. Rather than simply incentivising work, cutting benefits will have unintended consequences on households where finding and keeping work is only achievable with personalised welfare to work support...presents alternative reforms designed to introduce a greater focus on capability-building for disabled people and supporting the move into employment UK Demos (Nov 2010) Apprenticeships within the housing sector A diagnosis of the current apprenticeship programmes being delivered in housing associations and recommendations for development...Apprentices can bring a number of benefits to housing associations. UK NHF (Nov 2010) Initiative saves tenants almost £1.7m this initiative has been issuing affordable loans and financial advice to social housing tenants who cannot get affordable credit from mainstream outlets such as banks and building societies... UK Housing Wales (Nov 2010) Ending Homelessness Qualitative Assessment Tool designed to communities assess the quality of homelessness assistance. It consists of questionnaires for three key stakeholders: consumers, community leaders, direct service providers also Counting Homeless Youth US NAEH (Nov 2010) Low carbon housing: lessons from Elm Tree Mews Elm Tree Mews was built with the aim of providing affordable, high-quality housing to meet proposed UK energy and carbon standards for 2013...the actual performance of the properties was not as good as intended UK Joseph Rowntree (Nov 2010) |
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