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| There’s More to Policy Than Alignment In Canada after years of cuts, departments have begun rebuilding capacity or contracting for policy analysis and research… The urgency and depth of the current economic downturn has added pressures to policy-making capacity… Innovation requires insight, sufficient capacity, and organizational “slack,” which suggests that public service institutions and broader networks might be too lean for grappling with the policy challenges at hand in a results-oriented environment. Can CPRN (May 2009)Health Workforce Australia Bill 2009 to establish Health Workforce Australia (the HWA) as a statutory authority and to specify its functions, governance and structure. Parliamentary Library (May 2009) Managing diversity: making it core business outlines the value that creative diversity management can bring to organisations and its role in helping to deliver the NHS vision of implementing personalised care and quality based on “safe care, effective care and patient Extended Medicare Safety Net Review The EMSN appears to have made services more affordable for some (people using assisted reproductive services, some patients with complex health conditions such as cancer), but has had little impact for those in more remote areas or in lower socioeconomic groups…A concern is that most EMSN benefits have flowed to services that are more often used by wealthier sections of the community. How can health systems respond to population ageing? As many older people remain in hospital inappropriately, a number of measures can be applied to allow for more treatments out of hospital…measures that reduce the risk of disease and promote the maintenance of function, confidence and engagement can support healthy ageing and ease the pressure on health care systems. Most notable are health promotion and disease prevention programmes that target the main causes of morbidity and premature mortality, in particular obesity and hypertension, as well as mental healthmore on sustainable funding for long term care Regenerative medicine aims to restore the function of diseased or damaged tissues or organs by a variety of approaches, from cell-based therapies through tissue engineering to developing new medical devices. This offers potential medical benefits, but also poses regulatory challenges. Understanding what matters: A guide to using patient feedback to transform services provides best practice in terms of collecting, analysing and using patient feedback to transform services. Planning for Health: A study on the integration of health and planning in South Australia reviews the impact of urban planning on population health outcomes. Social Justice Report 2008 The focus of this year’s report is on human rights protections for Indigenous peoples, remote Indigenous education, Indigenous healing and the progress on achieving Indigenous health equality by 2030. Prospects for closing the gap in a recession: Revisiting the role of macroeconomic factors in Indigenous employment Helping Each Other in Times of Need: Financial Help as a Means of Coping with the Economic Crisis The economic downturn has left few Americans untouched: Nearly 80 percent of households say they have been affected; almost 30 percent report having been affected “a lot” Review of the residential aged care accreditation process Call for submissions and discussion paper Balanced decision-making for people who use care services outlines the priorities that UK health and safety inspectors and social care providers have with regard to supporting adults and older people who need care and support to live with dignity and independence within the community, whilst ensuring risks are identified and managed. |
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| Connecting with Health and Care stresses the need for housing services to reconnect with health and social care. It identifies a number of key policy areas that are at the intersection of these different fields: Prevention, Personalisation and choice, Co-ordination and integration of services, Care delivered ‘close to home’. UK HIA (May 2009)Demand for SAAP accommodation by homeless people 2007-08 on any given day, less than half (41%) of all new requests for immediate accommodation were successful, with about 385 people (or 59%) turned away. AIHW (May 2009) Housing insecurity and its link to the social inclusion agenda Many of those experiencing housing insecurity also experience physical and mental health problems which pose additional difficulties in participating economically and connecting socially. Driving up performance: Producing effective local information • the role that performance information can play in empowering tenants • what tenants want to know about landlord performance • how a regulatory data set could meet tenants’ information needs • what data might be collected at a local level Regeneration manifesto there is a need for new policies both to sustain the regeneration sector in the current crisis and pave the way for recovery. New, flexible models for regeneration are required. In developing such models, the industry must draw on the lessons of past successes and failures to produce a sustainable structure for regeneration. Marketing Extra Care Housing A lack of basic public relations and marketing skills amongst extra care housing providers is contributing to poor awareness of the sector Poor marketing hampers elderly care housing provision Developing a Family Support Program services for relationship, parenting and/or separation issues and more Conceptual framework for family and domestic violence lllustrates relationships between the key elements of family and domestic violence, such as: context, risk, incident, responses, impacts/outcomes, and programs, research and evaluation. ACT Young People’s Plan 2009-2014 discussion paper Managing Risk in Play Provision: Implementation guide shows how play providers can replace current risk assessment practice with an approach to risk management that takes into account the benefits to children and young people of challenging play experiences, as well as the risks. also Cotton wool culture stifling the nation’s children Making It Easier for School Staff to Help Traumatized Students a cognitive-behavioral program intended to be delivered in schools by teachers or school counselors rather than clinical personnel. Review of homebirths in Western Australia The aim of the review was to review homebirths in WA, especially to assess essential health outcomes including morbidity and mortality. Potential Farm Sector Effects of 2009 H1N1 “Swine Flu”: Questions and Answers there is no evidence that the 2009 H1N1 virus is transmitted by food and that humans cannot get the illness from eating properly handled pork or pork products. |
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| The Investigation and Surveillance of Poisonings and Hazardous Substances Injuries:Guidelines for Public Health Units NZ Health (May 2009)DH advice for toddlers and young children (1 – 5 years) to avoid rice drinks due to risk of exposure to inorganic arsenicmore UK Health (May 2009) Drinking Water From Private Wells and Risks to Children Private well water should be tested yearly, and in some cases more often Guidance Dying to Play Video Games: Carbon Monoxide Poisoning From Electrical Generators Used After Hurricane Ike Generator-related CO poisoning is common during power outages after hurricanes. However, generators are commonly being used to provide electricity to power entertainment devices for children, such as video games. Additional public education about CO risk is needed, perhaps directed at older children and teenagers through the schools in regions susceptible to hurricanes. The Skinny on Big Box Retailing: Wal-Mart, Warehouse Clubs, and Obesity examines the impacts of these retailers on food and alcohol consumption, exercise, smoking, and eating out at restaurants in order to explain the results for weight. Most notably, all three types of stores are associated with increased consumption of fruits and vegetables and reduced consumption of dietary fat. These results are surprising given the conventional wisdom that cheap food leads to more eating, and suggest that income effects and relative price changes are more important that absolute price changes in this case. Review of dietary interventions in black and minority ethnic groups any specific cultural issues that need to be taken into account when planning an engagement activity…including South Asian and Chinese Better Diabetes Care: Consultation Document National Prescription Drug Threat Assessment 2009 Prescription Opioid-related Deaths Increased 114 Percent from 2001 to 2005 Tasmanian Alcohol Action Plan 2009-2014 Public Consultation Guidelines for the Operation and use of Solaria in Tasmania – Consultation on draft An overview of chronic kidney disease in Australia, 2009 chronic kidney disease (CKD) was a factor in nearly 10% of all deaths in Australia in 2006, and more than a million hospitalisations in 2006-07 Harmonisation of Disability Parking Permit Schemes in Australia The scheme aims to provide a new permit that is recognised across Australia and improved rules around its use. Forum on Sickness, Disability and Work: Addressing Policy Challenges in OECD Countries Disability policy has to be part of a comprehensive labour market strategy for managing the impacts of the downturn on vulnerable workers. So far, there is little debate about adequate disability policy responses to the crisis. This is risky because employers have previously used disability schemes to downsize their workforce. |
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