Family, Community and Disability
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Year: 2007
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Author: Purani, Keyoor; Nair, Satish
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Journal Name: AI & Society
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Journal Number: Vol.21, No.3
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Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
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Published Location: London, United Kingdom
Technology and social change are interdependent. The information technology (IT) revolution has redefined social equation shifting the focus from material to knowledge power. While developed countries have harnessed their resources with the growth of knowledge societies, the developing and least developed countries have lagged behind in ....
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Year: 2007
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Author: Reilly, Rachel; Doyle, Joyce; Rowley, Kevin
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Journal Name: Australian Community Psychologist
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Journal Number: Vol.19, No.1
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Country: Australia
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State/Region: Victoria
This paper describes a health promotion program conducted within the Koori community of the Goulburn- Murray region of northern Victoria. The program was community-directed, state-funded and involved university researchers. It comprised three separate but related activities devised and carried out within a participatory action rese ....
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Year: 2007
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Author: Markwell, Susan; Iboai, Lorraine
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Journal Name: 9th National Rural Health Conference
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Publisher: National Rural Health Alliance
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Published Location: Deakin West, ACT
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Country: Australia
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State/Region: Queensland
The Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS) provides a weekly child health clinic in the remote Indigenous community of Kowanyama, on Cape York Peninsula. The RFDS runs a playgroup as part of the program. This paper describes the establishment of the playgroup program, its goals, the challenges faced, the strategies used to tackle them ....
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Year: 2002
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Author: Smailes, Peter J.
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Journal Name: South Australian Geographical Journal
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Journal Number: 101
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Country: Australia
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State/Region: South Australia
Report Locationhttp://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/dspace/handle/2440/14249 ....
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Year: 1996
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Author: Sorensen, Tony; Epps, Roger
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Publisher: Journal of Rural Studies
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Published Location: Vol.12, No.2
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Country: Australia
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State/Region: Queensland
Effective community leadership is increasingly recognised in Australia, as elsewhere, as an important contributor to local economic and social development. This article examines the nature of community leadership in four Central Queensland towns as part of a wider project to test the links between it and the pace and form of local development. Em ....
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Year: 2009
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Author: Franks, D; Fidler, C; Brereton, D; Vanclay, F; P, Clark.
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Publisher: Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining
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Published Location: Brisbane, Qld
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ISBN: 9780980431339
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Country: Australia, South Africa, Canada
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State/Region: Queensland, Western Australia, New South Wales
As part of the implementation of the Sustainable Resource Communities (SRC) policy, the Queensland Department of Employment, Economic Development and Innovation (DEEDI), in association with the Queensland Resources Council and the Local Government Association of Queensland, commissioned the Centre for Social Responsibility in ....
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Year: 2006
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Author: Wythes, Alice J; Lyons, Michael
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Journal Name: Rural and Remote Health
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Journal Number: Vol.6, No.3
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Country: Australia
Retirement is a major life change for men, with their identity so often tied strongly to paid work. However, little is known about rural men who retire from farms and moved into town - leaving their land. This article investigates their experiences, with a qualitative study of seven retired farmers in New England, New South Wales. ....
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Year: 2007
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Author: Ireland, Lynda
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Journal Name: Education in Rural Australia
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Journal Number: Vol. 17, No. 2
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Country: Australia
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State/Region: New South Wales
The Children's Services Regulation 2004 (NSW) makes it possible for children aged between birth and two years to be without a university qualified teacher in a centre-based long day care service. However, research demonstrates important links between caregivers. formal training and the quality of early childhood education. This cas ....
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Year: 2013
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Author: Pront, Leeanne; Kelton, Moira; Munt, Rebecca; Hutton, Alison
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Journal Name: Nurse Education Today
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Journal Number: 33.3
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Publisher: Elsevier Science Ltd.
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Published Location: United Kingdom
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Country: Australia
This study investigates the influences on nursing student learning who live and learn in the same rural environment. A declining health workforce has been identified both globally and in Australia, the effects of which have become significantly apparent in the rural nursing sector. In support of rural educational programs the literature portrays ....
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Year: 2013
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Author: Department of Regional Development, Western Australia
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Publisher: Government of Western Australia
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ISBN: 2203-2401
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Country: Australia
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State/Region: Western Australia
The purpose of the Living in the Regions 2013 survey was to ascertain what attracts people to the regions, to understand the barriers to living in the regions, to measure the quality of life in regional Western Australia, and to use that information to inform and direct regional development initiatives into the future.
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Year: 2007
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Author: Boymal, Jonathan; Rogers, Patricia; Brumby, Susan; Willder, Stuart
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Publisher: Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation
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Published Location: Barton, ACT
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ISBN: 1741514916
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Country: Australia
Rural and farming populations in Australia have above average rates of premature morbidity and mortality through heart disease, cancer and suicide. The Sustainable Farm Families (SFF) project is designed to influence farmers' behaviours with respect to health, safety and wellbeing. This report presents the results of an economic ev ....
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Year: 2007
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Author: Yates, Russell
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Journal Name: Education in Rural Australia
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Journal Number: Vol. 17, No. 1
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Country: New Zealand
Teacher shortage in rural localities is a long-standing issue in New Zealand. This paper reports on an attempt to reduce the impact of shortages by redesigning the way preservice teacher education was delivered. Called the Mixed Media Programme (MMP), this is a primary (elementary) teacher education programme that was established i ....
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Year: 2009
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Author: Berry, Helen; Shipley, Megan
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Publisher: Dept. of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs
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Published Location: Canberra, ACT
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ISBN: 9781921647086
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Country: Australia
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State/Region: New South Wales
This report explores the relationship between social capital and mental health. It further examines the theory that seven types of community participation - including taking an active interest in current affairs, socialising with household members, friends, extended family and neighbours, taking part in organised community activiti ....
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Year: 2010
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Author: Clark, Kim D; Oosthuizen, Jacques; Beerenfels, Susan; Rowell, Anne-Marie C
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Journal Name: Rural and Remote Health
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Journal Number: Vol.10, No.3
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Country: Australia
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State/Region: Western Australia
Tambellup is a small rural town in Western Australia with a much higher Aboriginal population than the national average. Notably, this town has achieved very positive results for year one children in 2007 regional Australian Early Development Index testing. In 2009 the Great Southern GP Network requested that Edith Cowan University ....
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Year: 2012
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Author: Davis, Aleisha; Hopkins, Tracy; Abrahams, Yetta
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Journal Name: The Volta Review
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Journal Number: 112.3
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Publisher: Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf, Incorporated
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Published Location: United States
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ISBN: 00428639
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Country: Australia
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State/Region: New South Wales
The Shepherd Centre is a nonprofit early intervention program in New South Wales, Australia, providing listening and spoken language services through an interdisciplinary team approach to children with hearing loss and their families. Advances in communication technology and the global push towards telepractice and e-health service delivery model ....
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